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Wish granted: You get USB Interactive-C

I wasn’t familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.

Hi there. I’m an artist who gives away everything for free because I don’t personally think it’s ethical to profit from pure human emotional expression. I also don’t think it’s ethical for some faceless corporation to profit from my art. I will ABSOLUTELY fight against my art being used to train AI models, but I have ABSOLUTELY no desire to profit. In fact, I have the opposite desire.

So tell me exactly what is rent-seeking?

Nah, driving is a privilege, not a right. You don’t NEED to d I’ve and you absolutely don’t need to drive while impaired. Even if you think you’re good, you’re not. There are THOUSANDS of cases of people being killed by drunk drivers who thought they were good.

The creepy new drama teacher was an evil demon the whole time?!?

As a middle schooler I used Power Point to make FMV games for my friends and classmates, and it was basically this. Just, like, SO MANY slides

I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself

Isn’t that a pleasant surprise?

It’s not EXACTLY the same, but this guy does a pretty good job of hitting the same vibes:

https://youtube.com/@modernknight

Dairy Queen has been selling food since 1958. They are not “an ice cream store” any more than McDonalds is

But not in Marx’s time. 45s and 33 1/3s weren’t invented until the 40s

middle managers suck.

FTFY

I usually try to figure out what the weather and temperature are going to be for the duration of time I’m going to be out, plus a little more just in case, and then dress accordingly. So it’s not always about the weather RIGHT NOW, per se

$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.

You have big “tipping the waitress a penny for bad service” energy

Still alive!

No, but this manosphere shit isn’t new. It’s been around since at least the “Men Going Their Own Way” movement in the late 90s and early 2000s, which me too and the Right’s culture wars are a reaction to. So yeah, watch, like, ANY movie starring Michael Douglas, or basically any movie that involves a male/female relationship dynamic and you’ll probably see a LOT of proto-manosphere stuff. (Pretty Woman?)

Like basically every movie prior to the 2010s, yeah

You’d be surprised at how close to true that is. I do use cash for just about everything possible, if by “fake identity” you mean not having a public facing social media account with my real name on it, then yeah I do that too, I don’t know what you mean by business memberships for discounts, so I probably don’t do that either (if this is referring to getting a membership at a grocery store or something, then I just use the local area code plus Jenny’s number- 867-5309), and my phone and computers are encrypted. That’s not a controversial or out there set of stipulations for somebody using a federated social media service.

So yeah, pretty much. Or at least whenever physically possible. If I’m not putting an effort into protecting myself, then what am I even doing?