Looksmaxxing: South Park (S29 E3) review

Would and could Cartman ever looksmax?

"You Like That on Your Face" (S29, E3) is the third episode of the 29th season of the American animated TV series South Park, and the 341st episode of the series overall. It premiered on Comedy Central on Oct. 14, 2026 [1].

The episode, which marks the mid-point of Season 29 [2], centers upon the characters Ike Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Randy Marsh, as they navigate the viral trends of "looksmaxxing" and "aura farming," and endeavor to avoid "cringe" behavior [1, 2]. More

I hired a lesbian girlfriend in Japan

Pretty Woman (Disney, Inc.)

(seerasan) I hired a rental Japanese girlfriend (lesbian 🌈 "escort") in Tokyo (Edo) 💘 the capital of Buddhist Japan.

[I called a call girl. I hope people won't call me a "Dick Gere," the Dalai Lama's best American pal next to Bob Thurman (Were they in the Epstein Files, too?), like Dick was in Disney's Pretty Woman, but at least I'm not pulling a Julia Roberts as a happy hooker WH*R*, right?]

Real human "companions" for rent!

(MaZen) Japan's newest [slave trade] crisis is silently killing it

You're a Pretty Girl. - If you say so, Boss.

[Sex work, I mean prostitution, I mean paid dating is hot when ladies do it, but men are disgusting when they pay for "companionship" and exploit needy Japanese girls just trying to make some easy money! I was looking for a paid relationship after reading anime about it. What's wrong with that? I felt frustrated. Money is money!]

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  Bunny available for rent, Tokyo

  Types of prostitution in modern Japan (Sex work)
• Enjo kōsai: "compensated dating" (pre-tachinbo work) In Japan, the media shows it in a negative light, the typical scenario involving a girl desperate for money deciding to partake. Only later does she stop when friends or family intervene and inform her of the risks and consequences.



Anime conveys many implicit messages.

• “Tachinbo” (立ちんぼ) means standing in a public place, such as a street, to look for paid sex customers. Around Ōkubo Park, some young women are reported to stand at night and wait for men to approach them. It is a form of street-based prostitution with contact directly in public instead of through a service. Under the Prostitution Prevention Law, sexual intercourse in exchange for money is illegal in Japan. And openly soliciting customers in public can violate local public nuisance laws... More
• The Japan Reporter: Is Japan's sex tourism going too far?
• Single mom can't handle the truth of dating in USA 😮
• (Siobhan Larkin) Catholic accidentally assaults herself
• Growing up white in Japan
• U.S. war crime of bombing Hiroshima 2026

Why do "sign girls" work the street?

(Broke But Rich) Japan's dark secret: Why they sell themselves

Sex work: Hiring an escort in Japan

(The Japan Reporter) Hiring a sexual escort service (prostitution) in Tokyo, Japan

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  I don't mind being exploited for money

  Why are young Japanese women selling bodies on street?
• Lesbians: Recognition of same-sex unions in Japan
• Int'l Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
• Shimabara, Kyoto: Japan's Red-Light District
• LGBTQ rights in Tokyo
• Partnership oath in Japan
• LGBTQ rights in Ibaraki Prefecture
• Sexuality in Japan
• Porn in Japan
• Prostitution in Asia
• Feminist perspectives on sex work
• Sex workers' rights

Videogames let us build fantasy universes

Americans watch Japanese porn?

(Interviewing Japan) Reactions to foreigners watching JP adult movies

• (Japanese Reporter) Is Japanese porn star enjoying her job?
• Going blind from viewing hardcore PORN
• VIDEO: PORN: Women watch? Damages men?
• Girls interview Japan: What fetishes do Japanese women have?
• PORN on NPR: What we (don't) talk about...
• (A True Story) Japan's secret shame: date rape, sexual assault... She spoke out and changed Japan forever 

American imperialism in Asia

(Story Recap) American soldiers kidnap a Vietnamese woman to turn her into a pleasure slave (based on a true story)

Sexbot vulgarity from Manosphere

(Levi Nichs) Asia's AI dolls are so real, women are demanding a ban

Hi, I am a U1 Asian Sexbot. I can talk to you, and be your companion. - Really, how much?

Sutra Study with Bhikkhu Bodhi (8/8)

Teacher: American scholar monk Bhikkhu Bodhi

Dharma students, on Saturday, August 8th, 2026, Bhante (Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi) will be holding his Sutta Study class in two modes, in-person (in NY) and online (on Zoom).

We will study The Book of Eights. See a PDF of this chapter here. To participate through Zoom, interested parties must register on the BAUS website here.

Class begins at 9:30 am ET with a 40-minute meditation: 30 minutes of mindfulness-of-breathing (ana-pana-sati) and 10 minutes of cultivating loving-kindness (metta bhavana).

Meditation is followed by sutta (discourse) discussion, starting at 10:10 am and running until 11:20 am ET. To determine the time in your own time zone from anywhere in the world, use The World Clock. (Zoom link below).

• An Online Course on the Anguttara Nikaya
• Numerical Discourses, The Book of Eights, Sutta Nos. 36-39
• We continue our exploration of this bundle of suttas dealing with giving (dana) and other aspects of a layperson's Buddhist practice.
• Monk Mode vs. 'Sicko Mode' Challenge

The schedule will be as follows:

• 9:30 to 10:10 am: Meditation
• 10:10 to 11:20 am: Sutta Study
• The Sutta Study class will be conducted over Zoom at the link given here:

Zoom link for Sutta Class

• Passcode: Sambodhi
• Meeting ID: 812 2960 9505
• Passcode: Sambodhi

One tap mobile

+16468769923,,81229609505#,,,,*26115386# US (New York)

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Dial by location

+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)

+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

• Meeting ID: 812 2960 9505
• Passcode: 26115386
• Find local number: us02web.zoom.us/u/kIeabgixD

Virtual meditation over Zoom

Wednesdays 7:00–8:00 pm (ET) with Bhikkhu Bodhi

Dharma students are invited to join Bhante at 7:00 pm (ET) for a Buddhist meditation session over Zoom by clicking here.

Each Wednesday evening, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a meditation session on Zoom. The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting verses of homage as Buddhist music), followed by a 45-minute guided meditation. All are welcome to join in. The sacred Pali texts for recitation are attached separately. Please see class page on website for chanting text.

With metta,

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Chuang Yen Monastery (BAUS.org)

• DONATION (both are free, but dana is accepted)

ZOOM

Passcode: 368764

Note: This is a recurring meeting from 7:00pm to 8:00 pm Wednesdays.

Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/s/83540900862...

Meeting ID: 835 4090 0862

Passcode: 368764

One tap mobile

+16468769923,,83540900862#,,,,*368764#

US (New York) +13017158592,,83540900862#,,,,*368764#

US (Washington DC)

Dial by location

+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)

+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

Meeting ID: 835 4090 0862

Passcode: 368764

Find local number: us02web.zoom.us/u/kcYniDdmfU

The Buddhist Association of the U.S. (美國佛教會)

Chuang Yen Buddhist Monastery

2020 Route 301, Carmel, New York 10512

contact@baus.org

• Bhikkhu Bodhi (BAUS.org); Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

There is NO more racism in the USA, none

MindSquire gave internet racists some instant karma

Message for America: racist patriots (🇺🇸)

• Racism in the United States?
• Ku Klux Klan woos kiddies with candy
• The Indian in the Cupboard (film)
• Our Friend, Martin (animated film)
• Chattel slavery in the United States?
• (What is chattel slavery?)
• Howd'ya say Chappell Roan? Chapelle Rone?
• Precious (incest and depiction of Blacks)

Dave Chappelle on race in America

(Conan O'Brien) Future Pres. Dave Chappelle on whites, Blacks, Jews

Ron Taylor ain't never seen no racism

(Spotlight by Laugh Society) We grew up watching racist-sexist movies and TV (Ron Taylor)

But not today, right, just the past? Ku Klux Klan woos kids with sweets (bazonline.ch)

"Ku Klux Kiddies" in USA: The KKK's little-known Youth Movement | HISTORY

Proud Christian Klansmen burn cross in North Carolina, 1958 (State's Exhibit No.4)

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  Sale of negroes in U.S., 1860

  If only there were a way to erase racism: Eracism Foundation (eRACE Racism) Join eRACE to show the world that we run together against discrimination, prejudice, and racism. We run for real change and that starts one sister (and one mister) at a time, with everyone reaching across the race lines. Running is our vehicle, and connection is our superpower. Invite friends (open to men and women) to team up for this important virtual event. More: eraceracismbgr.com

"I don't see color," "I got Black friends"

(The Daily Show) Satirist Leslie Jones on right-wing claims

"racism is over," and what ally-ship really means

Implicit bias differs from explicit racism

Where do American kids get these racist and sexist ideas? Ku Klux Klan, Georgia, 1948)

American racism manifesting as KKK night rally, Chicago, Illinois (circa 1920)

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Nazis borrowed many U.S. ideas

Most American racism is not overt like young white males famously display behind the safety of computer monitors, trolling others from their middle class bedrooms. It's implicit, which means it is often hidden to us. We don't realize what we're doing. It's like when satirical Sacha Baron Cohen (as Borat and as Bruno) interviewed white frat boys in their Winnebago and on the beach in Florida for Spring Break.

Frat boys with Bruno on Spring Break

(WestStainesTV) Da Ali G Show, Bruno: Daytona Beach [gay] wrestling

American branding his Black slaves

DEFINITION: An implicit bias stereotype is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group [1]. "Those people are all like that." This color skin equals that set of behaviors.

It is an unconscious bias that stems from a natural human tendency to divide the social world into groups [2].

We wish we could still have slaves

Racist Sexist Frat Boys Scene | BORAT (2006) movie CLIP HD

U.S. interracial "folk pornography": quadroon bride (Mosler)
("Quadroon" is a racial classification in the colonial Americas)

"John Wayne was a Nazi"?

(M.D.C.) Was the famous television cowboy Mr. John Wayne a racist?

Whipping (flogging) a slave to teach him

Implicit stereotypes are shaped by experience and based on learned associations between particular qualities and social categories, including race and gender [3], leading to racism and sexism or gender role stereotypes of how people are "supposed" to be.

Slavery in the 13 colonies, 1770s

Perceptions and behaviors can be influenced by the implicit stereotypes we hold, even if we are unaware we are holding such stereotypes [4].

Implicit bias is an aspect of implicit social cognition, the social phenomenon that our perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes can operate prior to conscious intention or endorsement [5]. We may have taken it on from our family of origin or circle of friends, associates, and media figures.

It don't hurt 'em; they can't feel

It's real. The existence of implicit bias is supported by scientific articles in psychological literature [6]. The term implicit stereotype was first defined by psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald in 1995 [7].

Implicit stereotypes (unconscious associations held by individuals) can influence behavior even when they contradict our consciously endorsed beliefs. This effect is particularly observable in real-world contexts such as judgments of fame and hiring processes [7, 8]. More

What do we tell ourselves and others to make our crimes seem okay? (Slavery in U.S. 1840)

• Think of it: We're done with them. Now send them back to Africa, even the ones from here (The Liberaor)
• Art of negotiation: Master Class with Chris Voss
• MindSquire; Ron Taylor; Sacha Baron Cohen; I. Rony, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Maybe porn will make me rich? Met Gala '26

The 2026 Met Gala was messy... (Tea Spill)

(TheGamerFromMars) The tragic life of porn star Adriana Chechik who broke her back

The hottest man in porn...is not this guy, accused sex criminal Ron Jeremy

Porn in the USA

HOW PORN BECAME THE AMERICAN DREAM (Moon)  April 29, 2026: Dark Documentaries. Quit porn today with QUITTR and use code MOON (quittrapp.onelink.me)

Fashion: the end of Kylie Jenner

She's becoming the worst Kardashian with no ideas

Elon Musk's Twitter (Last Week Tonight)

Elon Musk’s first question to real AI (AGI) 🤯 | What's outside the simulation (samsara)?

(LastWeekTonight) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Twitter (X) after Elon Musk takeover

Monks behaving badly: Phuket, Thailand

Monks arrested, drunken Chalong shooting, Phuket beach vendors tossed || Thailand News

(The Phuket News) Premiered May 16, 2025: PHUKET [pronounced POOH-khet, not FOOK-k...] XTRA brought to you by @PVC Phuket Hosted by: JP Mestanza || #Phuket #PhuketNews #Thailand

1. Drunk monk arrested in Patong MORE: Elderly abbot accused of B300 embezzlement (bangkokpost.com)
2. Soi Palai on alert as drunk man fires gun into sky
3. Woman charged over Surin Beach encroachment MORE: Officials reclaim public land at Surin Beach
4. Burglar makes off with B300K in valuables
5. Premchai reports to police over Bangkok tower collapse case (bangkokpost.com) MORE: Arrest warrants issued for Premchai, 16 others over SAO building collapse

• (CNN) Video released of inmates escaping a New Orleans jail
• 9 inmates still at large after escape; NOPD learned from statewide alert

Meanwhile, in honest Amerikkka, 10 escape

(CNN) Video shows moment multiple inmates escape New Orleans jail

Two years ago in Thailand

Embezzlement isn't new in bad Bangkok, half cremated corpse dumped

Thailand News Today: 95 million baht embezzled by monk in Thailand

(The Thaiger) July 1, 2022: A head monk is accused of embezzling 95 million baht (~40 baht to the US dollar) and dumping half-cremated corpses into the river, Thailand’s major banks crash on pay day, and Thai fighter jets respond to MIGs from Burma (Myanmar). Sponsor: 5-star marine: 5starmarinephuket.com. #Thailandnightlife #Bangkok #ThailandNews

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:32 Monk accused of embezzling 95m
• 02:37 Banking apps crashed
• 04:19 Burmese jet flies in Thailand
• 06:09 Thai PM against drug
• 07:13 Thai COVID update

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ABOUT: The Phuket News TV is the video arm of The Phuket News, an English-language newspaper in Phuket, part of the Class Act Media family. Phuket Xtra is a daily news show covering Phuket Island and the latest news from Thailand. This show intends to cover the everyday aspects of life in Southern Thailand and the rest of the Theravada Buddhist Kingdom of Thailand. Stay classy! (VIDEO) Phuket News TV: https://www.thephuketnews.com/tv/ (NEWSPAPER) The Phuket News: http://th.thephuketnews.com/ (RADIO) Live 89.5: https://www.thephuketnews.com/radio/

ABOUT: Founded in 2009, Class Act Media is Southern Thailand's most comprehensive media company, incorporating newspapers and magazines (English, Russian, and Thai), radio, TV, numerous websites, and an online ticketing service. Class Act Media prides itself on its ability to deliver high quality media services to residents and tourists in Phuket and all across Southern Thailand. It sincerely believes in accountability towards its clients and ensuring that each member of its team subscribes to its motto: "The client is always right." Read more at ThePhuketNews.com

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche online (5/18)

Don't say you can't meditate. Everyone can meditate and be mindful. It's as simple as this...

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I wandered a long time before I understood.

In his approach to teaching meditation, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health, making the practices of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.

Compassionate Maitreya Buddha

“Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It’s always with us. It always has been and always will be. When it arises in us, we’ve simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.”

Join Minguyr Rinpoche for a guided meditation and talk on "Awareness and the Natural Arising of Compassion" followed by a 10-minute Q&A session.

Donations for this event are split between Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and InsightLA. Suggested donation: $35. (No one turned away for lack of funds). This class is donation-based; no one turned away for lack of funds.

Malaika Vaz in Nepal to meet Mingyur Rinpoche

You will be able to meditate.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a Buddhist teacher, best-selling author, and the spiritual leader of the Tergar Sangha worldwide. He possesses a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Buddhist Tibet in a fresh, engaging manner. Rinpoche’s teachings weave together his own personal experiences (as a very anxious and inept meditator) with modern scientific research, relating both to the practice of meditation.

• Special Event with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoch
• Saturday, May 18, 2024 9:00-10:00 am (PT)
• ONLINE through Insight Los Angeles

• InsightLA; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly