NaevaTheRat [she/her] @ NaevaTheRat @vegantheoryclub.org

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I think you're focusing on mass market stuff too much and you're tech-brained. Publishers are basically necessary for non fiction as you need fact checkers, legal cover if making claims about humans that might sue you and research access and assistance.

Marketing help is needed for anything that isn't already popular, income is needed while you work, editing is an extremely hard job that is a profession for a reason. Relying on something like patreon or YouTube where you have no real rights is an extremely precarious way to live open only to people with extremely specific skills around self promotion.

There are reasons beyond authors being dumbshits why Australian authors struggle and every author ever will tell you it's a terrible way to make bread.

Ah yes, "Your inner fish, the video game". I can see it now. "Debt: the first 5000 years the Netflix series" rivetting viewing.

Margins on books are awful, authors are largely paid a lump sum for publishing because they need food and sales on a book are often quite small. Like a few thousand small. Keep in mind you also need money while you are writing a book before it's being sold.

Patreon models and self publishing only works for smut and pulp.

Oh right, yeah that is a correct thing to be confused by. I was talking market and you were talking effort and we were both probably thinking: what the fuck sort of idiot is this person? :p

It's just generally true that being an indie creative while having to pay rent or get thrown to the street to starve and die is very difficult. People with vision and drive make the most valuable culture, and capitalism sees that as inefficient.

Because outside of some textbooks they are almost entirely solitary efforts until editing, which is a very difficult thing to pull off. They have smaller audiences, take longer to 'consume', can't be sold for as larger margins, and they are not easy to monetise in other ways aside from sale. Additionally physical copies are much more expensive to make than digital copies of media, and many book enjoyers want physical copies.

Just look around, nobody gets rich making books. Mass market tv/film and video games are staggering profitable by comparison, and hence easier and more attractive to make.

Maybe the invisible hand of the market belongs to an illiterate fool?

FBP seems like a bandaid in a car crash. Capitalism isn't a good framework for anything except making like 100 awful people disgustingly wealthy making and distrubuting cultural artefacts. Book are just hard to make and hard to enjoy relative to Netflix slop and video games etc.

Lol, most games I own don't run on windows without substantial tweaks and compatibility patches. Even then often games are buggy.

A game with texture issues on windows is badly made, a game with texture issues on linux is a game that doesn't run properly on linux /shrug

Curious how this turns out if you don't mind telling me. I think the internet has made a lot of us a bit Pearl clutchy. Most scammers aren't very creative and scams usually follow some common patterns like advanced fee, romance scam, pyramid scheme, ponzi scheme, phishing, or fraud.

This is unusual enough that my guess is a bloke who wants to work for cash under the table while illegally staying or something that is trying to establish references. It's not my shit on the line but so take your own council but if you feel secure and you reckon it's a real company in the UK this guy is tied to you might get a sweet deal helping an illegal planeperson get established.

Ohbtw. It is absolutely trivial to get into apartment buildings because people are nice and helpful. Unless it's small enough that your neighbours can be told not to let whoever shows up in. Also reenforce your door with hinge pins, otherwise a door is no obstacle to theft at all, also every single lock is mostly decorative, but thieves usually kick in because it's faster than 5 minutes picking.

It is a little odd. It is confusing as a scam, potentially pressure you for cash or case the place while working.

If they're insured I'd probably check it out if I had a secure dwelling a big scary bloke at home.

See if the UK branch vouches for them first but.

"portable handheld", look inside, gaming laptop without a keyboard.

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I strongly suspect you have some wires crossed. There have been some attempts at simulating brains but I think a fruit fly is partially done and it's making a fair few assumptions.

It's pretty straightforward to completely replicate the behavior of e.g. a house fly in software

Could you provide an example of a complete housefly model?

teaching an ex GF to use a new Linux PC for the first time. (Put it together as a wedding gift)

very cunning revenge!

orders of magnitude soz

physics causes brainrot and everything becomes OOM

Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.

Culture war, get yer stupid culture war here.

Spices. Very much spices. If I was limited to like 5 good ones I'd make do but I have a drawer with like 50 spices in it I use regularly and it's my happy place.

Great pain, or an inability to find lasting reprieve from pain. The former is obvious, the latter can be something like the following:

Suppose by whatever circumstance you were you, but I fiddled with the way your brain works. Now when something small upsetting happens it lingers for long time, while something good is only experienced in a muted and brief fashion. Over time this twists your expectations, each day is like 90% feeling bad regardless of what happened and no matter what you tell yourself about the smallness of the bad thing the feeling remains.

You can be on holiday in a beautiful place but the thought that keeps coming to mind is that you aren't as comfortable as in your own bed.

you stop sleeping right, you stop eating right because all food tastes equivalently meh. Your hobbies stop holding interest, successes stop feeling rewarding, but that pain from knowing you're now boring and your friends pity and resent you? Fresh as ever.

I'm surprised it hasn't been a law already??

why would it be? the people who make laws don't work for wages, they pay them.

You're all through this thread being very sympathetic to vegans 🤨 I wish you luck following your heart as I think it is probably a kind one.

I dunno about normative claims, I was just saying I think a lot of ethical vegans (i.e. actual vegans) disagree with dumpster diving for non human meat because they see it similar to corpse desecration.

I'm personally more sympathetic to the idea that bodies are just materials once someone is done with them but I know that this is a fringe view and it deeply upsets some people to consider the bodies of the dead disturbed in any way. At the same time I think there are perverse incentives there to be careful of and that normalising continued use of animal products may bleed over into stuff like "cheat days" so I remain theoretically sympathetic.