I get it. I’m a tad on the fence about this one because of that. The self deprecation aspect is cute.

Eh, I always think it tacky to wear shirts that exist just to assert superiority or denigrate the reader. They all just seem like variations of “I see stupid people” shirt.

In April of 2023, right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder announced that he and his wife, Hilary, were divorcing—an event, he explained to listeners of Louder with Crowder, to which he did not consent. She “didn’t want to be married anymore,” he said, “and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.”

Crowder, upset, lamented: “My beliefs don’t matter.”

Fuck you. You consent to be in a marriage, not out.

It’s also a laundering scheme to make free software proprietary.

Ah. I usually conflate the two under “internet archive”.

What’s the second?

Every now and then I see a parent having a tender moment with their child and I smile. I then reflect on whether my vasectomy/shirk of parenthood was the right choice.

I always come to the conclusion that it was. Perhaps when I’m older I will feel differently but I just can’t imagine that in my life for a long time.

[…] has no place in education other than its historic significance to the art of literature.

I don’t think it belongs as art in literature. It’s garbage, jumbled, mad texts. I’d say it belongs in studies of mythology or the analysis of our frail human minds to accept such idiocy for so long and so deeply.

Not to mention the other problematic ones that actively discourage subtlety in favor of dogma. It’s not automatically wrong if you covet something. Additionally, your parents earn your honor and respect, they shouldn’t be granted it unconditionally.

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Disagreement is a light way of putting it. 😅

It went full-on, lawyers-involved horseshit from her freaking out about trivial shit. So it’s a guarantee that her response to any inquiry will be negative. Fun!

Thanks for the kind words, I should find out later today whether she’s blocked me from getting a place.

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I would seriously consider something like this since my computing job requires me to stare at a light bulb all day. Perhaps there’s a demographic that would spring for this in the same way there is for quality chairs.

I’m having to do that now. Three years prior renting needs to be accounted for. I left on very bad terms with my previous landlord but I had to give the information over because it showed up on my history check and they refused to let my application be complete without it. So we’ll see wtf is gonna happen…

TIL about the Great Filter. Thanks for the rabbit hole!

“Less traumatic than violent, ad-hoc suicide” perhaps?

Oof, and the others are barely motivational at best.

I felt the same about BotW. At first I enjoyed the freshness and exploration but it quickly gave way to the sinking realization that it’s an empty world with smatterings of lifeless villages and MMO-style quests. Ew.

I don’t know but it still hasn’t been cracked… I imagine things would be very bad if they decide to pull it for some reason…

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

-Terry Pratchett