It’s an easy alternative. It took me a decade to get my friends to download a second app

Wait drop the tea about Clapton killing a child

To add to the (absolutely accurate) commentary in the rest of the thread, this hits on a something Grabber talks about in Bullshit Jobs. Almost universally, the jobs that are the most important to society actually functioning are the ones that pay the least (with the one notable exception of physicians). There’s this idea that you should be “grateful” to have such an important job, and that’s in a way almost part of your pay. See also nurses, elderly care providers, daycare employees, anyone who works for a charity. People in charge use this “moral capital” as a way to convince you to take less actual money

Genuinely this – most Ethiopian restaurants will just give you more for free

Learn latex if you haven’t already – it’s perfect for this! There’s a million tutorials out there, overleaf especially is very user friendly

Now is primary time – MANY elections have honestly decent looking people running under the Democratic ticket. Now is the time to replace the incumbents with people who give a shit

This was fun! Anyone know about the ſ character? How come in the 1600s it only sometimes seemed to take the place of s?

I’m also confused by this one, what is the last frame supposed to be.

I love x minus one! I listened to it as an audiobook forever ago, so cool that it’s available for free now! One of my favorite was “Nightfall,” based on an Isaac Asimov story

I liked the movie as a standalone thing, but my one big ick with the adaptation is them changing the core message. V is an anarchist, someone who thinks that order can exist without government. The word anarchy is never even mentioned in the movie, and the key takeaway in the film is that “governments should be afraid of their people, not the other way around,” a message that still implies governments should exist.

Chiming in with my own sleep paralysis tip – I can usually control my breath enough that I force myself to snore, which is usually loud enough to wake me up