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I disagree. I see it that Will is the ability of a particle or system of particles to affect change in the universe around it and alter the course of destiny. If we could know the current state of every particle in the universe, we could accurately predict the future, if nothing was then ever acted upon again. But particles possessing Will can alter their environment and effect a ripple of change that could then mean the entire prediction falls apart.

Worse: X AE A-XII Musk (only named this because X Æ A-12 was not acceptable to California regulations due to having non-English characters both in the form of numbers and of Æ), and later, another named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk (nicknamed “Y”). Both of these were with Grimes. Both of these are the official names given to these children, that is what is written on their birth certificates.

However, they were also preceded by around 8 other children with different women given much more normal names, so it’s unclear how much influence Grimes had on the decision making here. X AE A-XII in particular though I will definitely attribute to Elon because his fixation on the letter X extends back decades at this point.

New? Rasputin would like a word.

You mean you peel your pizza before you eat it?

Am millennial. I was taught not to believe anything that anyone said on the internet anywhere and to never tell anyone online a single detail about your irl life, and I had to learn how to figure stuff out myself when my parents weren’t watching. It’s a skill that can be learned, it isn’t inherent to millennials, though granted we all had a lot more fucking about to do with our devices in our time so it makes sense that most of us picked it up.

Nowadays my parents readily believe all the crazy shit people write on the internet about politics and suffer from identity theft because they give their data to just anybody, and kids don’t know what a file explorer is or how to read an error message without instinctually shitting their pants. What the fuck happened?

I feel like for a brief, beautiful span of like 5 years between 1998-2003 everyone was all mostly on the same page with tech stuff, and then we got left behind in the valley of sanity while the two generations adjacent to us melted their brains. But I was less than 10 years old during that mythical time so what the fuck do I know, I was mostly busy playing Donkey Kong and learning times tables.

If your net worth breaks a billion dollars, you will garner this sort of criticism nearly no matter what you do with it. Bill Gates, at least recently, has been just about as close as you can be to a model philanthropist, and people still spit on his name regularly.

A few things that help though, would be A) paying workers higher than the federally mandated minimum amount that you can legally pay them without running afoul of labor laws, B) Reinvesting profit back into the company instead of paying yourself a gorillion dollar yearly bonus while the rest of the employees get a 2.5% cost of living raise, and C) donating to charitable causes or human rights groups.

But some CEO’s (I won’t say many, but definitely some) do all of these things and still come under public fire. Realistically, if you actually manage to hoard enough money to become a billionaire, you’ve already abandoned your morals. No human being needs that much money. By all means profit from your innovations and rake in enough to live a comfortable life off them, but when your take home pay for a month is 12x what your next best paid employee makes in a year, you’re a motherfucker. Doubly so, when said employee is the one with boots on the ground and all the CEO is doing is signing papers and looking pretty for the shareholders.

In my opinion, there should never, ever ever, be a discrepancy of more than 5x the amount your lowest paid employee makes. If you’re paying people 25k a year to do the work that runs your business, the guy at the top of the chain of command shouldn’t make more than 125k. If you pay your guys 100k a year, sure, take home 500k a year if you’ve got the profits. Live comfortably. But when a company makes record breaking profits, turns around and cans half their staff, then pays the bigwigs a million dollar bonus while everyone else gets next to nothing, yeah, fuck you, fuck your product, and fuck your shareholders. If you look around there’s been quite a lot of that going on recently.

I guess my point is, the act of dishonestly hoarding the money in the first place is what makes us hate the rich. If you made that money fair and square and you deserve it, man, more power to you. I don’t think anyone is upset with Dolly Parton even though she’s worth an estimated 650 million US dollars, because she sweat and bled for that money and hasn’t taken to lording it over everyone else just because she can. Bezos invented a website and then rode it’s coattails into the realm of the obscenely rich without hardly ever lifting another finger for it. So did Musk. And the better-than-thou attitude they get about it makes it so much worse.

Not all the rich are bad people, but for the most part, good people don’t become rich. Not like that. It takes a certain amount of gleefully taking advantage of your fellow humans to get there. That remorseless exploitation is what we hate.

This is the Fediverse, bud. Gotta host your own hookers.

The final boss of customer support is your own patience. If you’re willing to sit on hold for 15 hours and get tossed around like a hot potato, you can resolve anything. But you’ll feel every minute that you spend doing it.

So, no, I’ve never defeated the final boss.

Try telling that to the Vietcong.

In America “gas” is short for gasoline, which is petrol.

It’s still shit because our lazy asses do still call both types “gas”, but there is a distinction.

Hope you never need to read the news, access your bank account, or buy anything online then.

I was thinking maybe we should stop giving the disgustingly rich lots of shit for free. But that’s just me. If some of that free shit makes it into the hands of people that can use it, all the better.

It’s the millennial equivalent of just being handed a box of crayons and being told to go nuts. It’s baked into our DNA.

I feel like I’ve just discovered something I shouldn’t have. I also feel like a couple of those are just unreasonably fucking funny to me. This artist fascinates me and I both worry intensely for their mental health but I also want more just like this.

Good thing this isn’t a funeral then and instead is the birth of their child. It’s stressful and painful, sure, but it’s supposed to be a joyful event.

They’re getting ballsy these days too. I’m required to answer the phone at work because it’s a business line, but as a result we get an absolute ton of spam or empty lines. I’ve had them spoof the local hospital’s phone number several times. I got a call from the motherfuckin’ USDA the other day (allegedly), like the government agency. Empty line. Once I got a call on my cell phone from my own phone number, that was interesting.

I always shamelessly screenshot it right off the Google image results page and crop it down.

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Great list. I do have to pop in and say though, amateur mushroom foraging is a ludicrously deadly hobby. I’d advise against that for most people. A mushroom that’s tasty and a mushroom that kills you dead in minutes sometimes look extremely very much the same.

Now granted most people aren’t likely to stumble across a ring of Death Caps in their local innawoods, but still, fungi are to be respected and generally not fucked with. Some of those Gi’s are not as Fun as they’d like you to think, and trained and true mycologists have been killed by misidentification.