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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • But why would someone pay for the software if the seller is not adding any value to to product?

    A: the mistaken belief that the seller is adding value, even in the face of all evidence, which is caused by a capitalist tendency to believe that all prices are inherently just

    B: disbelief in the idea of anything worthwhile being free, which is caused by the capitalist tendency to attack the free exchange of goods and services.







  • It’s sad and hilarious that people hear “zero waste” and think “I need to take aaaaall my cans to the recycling center and compost my scraps”, when the waste that is actually destroying the biosphere is the exhaust from your car. If we’re talking about “doing lower waste”, the first priority is to stop driving a car. Recycling bottles and composting scraps is the thing we can afford to do imperfectly. But not cars, ditching cars is the big important thing and the first step to sustainability.


  • -2028
    -wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
    -excited to play some halo 2k29
    -“xbox on”
    -…
    -“XBOX ON”
    -"Please verify that you are “annon332” by saying “Doritos™ Dew™ it right!”
    -“Doritos™ Dew™ it right”
    -“ERROR! Please drink a verification can”
    -reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k29™ War Chest
    -only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
    -still feeling sick from the 14
    -force it down and grumble out “mmmm that really hit the spot”
    -xbox does nothing
    -i attempt to smile
    -“Connecting to verification server”
    -…
    -“Verification complete!”
    -finally
    -boot up halo 2k29
    -finding multiplayer match…
    -“ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!”
    -my mother just walked in the room
    -“Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?”
    -“NO!”
    -“Console entering lock state!”
    -“to unlock drink verification can”
    -last can
    -“WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”
    -drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
    -pour the last half out the window
    -“PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE”
    -the mountain dew ad plays
    -i have to dance for it
    -feeling so sick
    -makes me sing along
    -dancing and singing
    -“mountain dew is for me and you”
    -throw up on my self
    -throw up on my tv and entertainment system
    -router shorts
    -“ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF”
    -“PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE”



  • Yeah, I’m really looking forward to moving off Discord. The username change made the biggest difference to me, I lost the last of my trust in them to keep making user friendly decisions at that moment. But regardless of trust, my polycule needs a tool to differentiate headmates, and Discord is the only platform that has that so far. I know because I’ve looked. We’ll switch when a pluralkit equivalent is available






  • In my country, your birth certificate has both your deadname and your new name on it if you changed your name. When I signed up for PayPal, I had already transitioned, so I put in my current, legal name. PayPal asked for proof that I am who I claim to be, to prevent fraud. Fair enough, I gave them my birth certificate. They looked at it, and then changed the name on my account to my deadname, which was no longer my legal name. When I told them to change it back, they said I’d have to submit a change of name form.

    I knew Musk was transphobic sooner than most of the public did after that experience.



  • Jewish people are not flawless paragons. To portray them as such is to deify and other them, striping them off their humanity. They are human beings, flawed in all the same ways the rest of humanity is flawed. That includes, in many but not all, racism. It’s not antisemitic to say that some are racist. They’re human, and racism is a very human trait. You’re the antisemite. You deny them the flaws of being human, and other them as universally perfect.