So many things would be better suited to the grocery store having large hoppers of the item that you fill your own containers with. Either the hopper counts out how much is fed through, or you sit the empty container beneath the hopper on a scale, zero it, and then fill and get the weight printed on a little sticker. We have this technology for jelly beans and coffee grounds, but apparently it’s far too advanced for anything else

For real? Well now I gotta go find some clips!

Y’all need to mind yo own damn business. This is Chimp business. Not hairless ape business.

I’m the same way. Anything down to about 4c and I’m just in bed, naked, covered with only a thin sheet, fan pointed at me.

Sadly, I live in a place where 26-27 is a common temperature in autumn and spring, and it only gets down to 15c in the winter for the most part :(

When one of my best friends from childhood came out to me, he texted me after a few years of not having spoken (life stuff, not intentional on either side). This is basically how it went.

Him: hey, man

Me: [dead name]! I’ve missed you, what’s up?

Him: Actually, it’s [new, male name] now. I’m transitioning.

Me: [new, male name]! I’ve missed you, what’s up?

Totally unintentional to the star trek reference, but he got a real kick it out of it, and reference ds9 after lol

It’s not removing the means of survival. I said “removing the means of survive from meaningless work.” In other words, to decouple the two concepts so that one may survive without having to rely on meaningless work.

“better a heathen than a heretic” is a refrain I have heard used without irony

Oh, to be a Twink on fire island in the 70s… If I ever get shape shifting and a time machine, it’s not going to be my first stop, but it’s definitely going to be on the list lmao

I’ll die on that hill. Lol. Best android to date, if it were updated for the modern age, I’d never consider any other form factor. That as a Linux phone would be absolutely a dream

As a leftist, UBI is a concept that both excites and scares me. It is a last ditch effort to save a consumer economy, and further removes people from labor organizing. With price hikes and unethical corporations and governments, a UBI could simply become a way to increase the price of every object and service, while also preventing the one method through which average people have ever genuinely impacted change: the union and strike. How do we unionize around ourself when we are removed from work? It’s a scary concept.

I love the idea of removing the means of survival from meaningless work, and I truly believe that is the direction we need to go if we wish to continue basing our economy off of consumerism and money (which, frankly, I don’t think we need to do), but in order for it work and be anything other than an actual nightmarescape, UBI has to be coupled (in some concrete, irreversible way) with things like price controls, rent controls, and some way for people to functionally unionize as citizens outside of their respective employment.

But all that said, we can’t even get single payer healthcare in the US, so this is more of a “what they should do in Europe” situation, as here in the US the answer to “will we get a UBI” is “go fucking die in a hole, you disgusting poor. But not that hole. That’s my hole.”

So many lol

The T-Mobile G1 was incredible. I wish they would remake it for today. A slide out keyboard, and a little mouse ball. It was fucking fantastic.

Blackberry 7230, I think. I looked up the timeline, and that looks like the right one, but the article says it was color. Mine was black and white. My mom got it for me because I loved to read, and could use it to read books outside.

Blackberry 7100t was peak. First time I watched Internet porn was on that phone lol

And at one point between the blackberry and my first android, my mom got me this phone with a built in MP3 player. It was so friggin thick, but it could hold so much music, and had an awesome camera. Around the same time, my buddy had a phone with a camera with a telescopic lense that looked more like a traditional camera than a phone.

It’s fire island, I’m a little surprised the ice breaker wasn’t sticking his face in OP’s ass crack as he said it, from the stories I’ve been told.

My uncle’s best friend used to go way back in the day, and from the stories he told me, it was basically just one nonstop public orgy. Of course, this was before AIDS was big, iirc.

Help me out? Google foxworthy conundrum, only seeing the modern comedian. I’m assuming this isn’t that lol

Yeah, at no point do I recall ever actually believing in the tooth fairy or Santa clause or whatnot, but I do remember playing along with it, not as like a “I like money/gifts” way, but more of a “this is a fun ritual” type of way

I’m leaning more and more towards otter lmao

That makes sense. You need that cigarette in the hospital, I can’t remember a time I was in a hospital and wasn’t stressed enough to smoke

I genuinely would have thought they’d allow you to smoke on set back then

Is it because the film is flammable, or just an early example of smoking bans?

I’ve thought about this, and I really don’t know. I think I’m too self conscious to actually pick one, because I’d only be able to focus on negative aspects haha

ETA: Asked a friend of a friend who’s a furry to ask me questions and help determine what I’d be.

He says otter or beaver lol

Does the fursona need to represent you physically? Because if so, I feel like I’d be misrepresenting myself a bit, both those animals are small, and I’m a very large person (6’3/191cm, broad shouldered, and 270lbs/122kg), and they’re both quite furry, whereas I have basically no hair at all on my head or body lol

So, like, what do I do to get started into the new community I’ve just recently discovered I have a deep passion for?

Why does no one ever offer me cocaine? :(