I would say it doesn’t get much better. At least he doesn’t enslave anyone though.

Realist Hero is rather like this as well, although it’s been some time since I was masochist enough to hate-read it.

To me the brain is part of the body and her brain and spine are not artificial at all as far as I know.

It’s just OK. I did like the major’s motorcycle outfit.

As a matter of fact I did like it, but it didn’t reach top 10 quality for me because it was too short to properly explore its themes.

• Kill la Kill - Our heroine, Ryuko, brings the fight to the powerful school government of Honnouji Academy in this over-the-top drama about anti-fascism. But can she solve the cold case of her father’s murder? Against all odds, Ryuko and her collaborators struggle to bring down the tyrannical government. The series draws a sharp contrast between the poor underbelly of society and the well-fed and -housed abettors of the fascist government. The show features themes of self-discovery and identity. Barely yuri.

• Akiba Maid War - Our heroine, Nagomi, brings the fight to the roving maid gangs of Akihabara in this over-the-top drama about organized crime. Against all odds, the crew struggles to keep their maid cafe open and end the brutal cycle of violence in a world of cutthroat competition. The show features themes of self-discovery and identity. Not a yuri, but it should have been.

• Black Lagoon - Our heroine, Revy, brings the fight to all sorts of mercenaries, thugs, and straight-up Nazis in this over-the-top drama about organized crime. Their smuggling ring performs episodic jobs that will have you on the edge of your seat. The series draws a sharp contrast between the criminal underbelly and the rest of society with the incipient romance between Revy and Rock, the salaryman she kidnapped. The show features themes of self-discovery and identity. This show is not yuri, although it would be better if it was.

• Birdie Wing (season 1 ONLY) - Our heroine, Eve, fights for her fellow orphans’ livelihoods using her mystical golf powers in this over-the-top drama about organized crime. The series draws a sharp contrast between the criminal underbelly and the rest of society with the incipient romance between Eve and Aoi, Eve’s rich-girl rival. The show features themes of self-discovery and identity. Unfortunately, season 2 fell off hard.

• Pop Team Epic - Our heroines, Pipimi and Popuko, take on rival Youtubers, the Bamboozle Gang, in this over-the-top drama about organized crime. There are some other things that happen in this anime too. In a rarity for this list, this show does not particularly feature themes of self-discovery and identity.

• Migi & Dali - Our heroes, Migi and Dali, are twin orphan brothers and highly skilled infiltrators. But can they get revenge for their mother’s murder? And can they avoid being found out by their adoptive parents? Find out in this over-the-top drama about the secrets lurking in this small town. The show features themes of self-discovery and identity. This show is not yuri although it does feature moderate trans themes that are not handled too poorly, all things considered.

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Our heroine, Motoko, is a highly skilled infiltrator. She’s also a semi-robotic cop who owes her body to the company store. Her elite unit of cybercops performs episodic jobs that will have you on the edge of your seat. The series explores how mass movements and beliefs can arise due to coincidence or a common exposure to the right information at the right time. While its science-fiction setting is fantastical, the series has become more relevant than ever in the post-truth, AI-enabled world of today, although it takes itself a bit more seriously than our own world seems to. Trans people and people with chronic illnesses in particular are likely to find the motif of being in debt and treated differently because of their body hits close to home. The show also features themes of self-discovery and identity. This show is mostly not yuri.

• Flip Flappers - Our heroine, Cocona, is bamboozled by Papika into going on episodic adventures in the surreal parallel worlds of Pure Illusion to collect the seven wish-granting dragon balls against another shady organization that wants them too. The show is spectacular and full of perfectly chosen, luscious colors. Like Ghost in the Shell, this show explores the nature of reality in an increasingly unreal world. The show features themes of self-discovery and identity. Despite moderate pacing issues, this show is an All Time Fave.

• Bloom Into You - The show is nothing but themes of self-discovery and identity and it is genuinely life-changing. Go watch it, even if you don’t usually like yuri.

Chiyo has the makings of a class traitor for sure.

I’ve heard soulseek is good.

maybe he wants to be megumin

I wasn’t especially impressed with Mashle. It felt pretty one note to me. Although the line “it is called the magic realm because it is a world that has magic” really knocked my socks off.

posadism is at least kinda fun tho

Thanks for the additional context.

The only real point of contention I really saw in that thread is about whether the Uyghurs are Turkic or not. Due to the social construction of ethnicity it’s probably something that cannot really be proved one way or the other. All the thread says is that it’s fascists who claim the Uyghurs are Turkic and that the Uyghurs were oppressed in the distant past by Turks at war and that the ethnic group is partially assimilated due to time and generations. Is the claim that Uyghurs are not Turkic really all that important to the question of whether or not there’s a cultural genocide in the first place? From the outside, it seems unnecessary to me to even mention it. If there’s anyone here who’s willing to put this claim in more context I’d appreciate it.

don’t objectify women. don’t be afraid to ask for help. don’t trust people who think meetings are work.

I’ve seen some hands that aren’t completely nonsense on the stable diffusion subreddit. So there must be some way to do it.

I don’t think it makes sense to determine what is or isn’t political by measuring the amount of politicality either. What makes something political is that some people say it’s political. And since I’m a person and I say that everything on Earth is political, that makes it so. QED.

Is the amount of politics something has supposed to be measurable somehow? If something is relevant to politics or has a political aspect it’s not inaccurate to describe it as political.

If everything is political then surely that’s a product of the political times we live in. When you’re trans like I am, politics isn’t something you can choose to engage with or not. Politics is something that people use to hurt you. And while I certainly envy those who think they can opt out of politics somehow, we live on a planet with a rapidly changing climate and an ongoing mass extinction event. Politics is going to come for you too, whether you refuse to see it or not, and the time it does may not be so far away.

That’s not to say that the “political lens” through which I see the world takes away the other meanings of things. The things I interact with in the world have other meanings and other aspects too, and in a lot of cases the political aspect is not the most important one. But the political aspects of things and the relations involving things are pervasive and important to fully understanding the world, so it is fairly accurate to say that everything on Earth at least is political in some way. Even your denial of the political aspects of things is part of this, as it’s part of your privilege to ignore politics.

Sent from my apartment where I pay the rent to a landlord, on a phone made using global supply chains, on a proprietary operating system based on open-source APIs and code.

I just don’t see the issue with a lot of things being political. I don’t think it diminishes the meaning of the word and it matches the way the word is commonly used.

I mean at this point you’re just making my argument for me. my point in the first place was that most things are political and you’re asking me to give a counterexample. if you believe that most things aren’t political come up with the counterexample yourself.