I'm actively considering getting a used Pixel and putting GrapheneOS on it, which is a highly locked-down, de-Googled Android phone. That won't do anything to keep me away from social media and the like, but it will stop 99% of tracking, which is perhaps my biggest beef with smart phones. I want the smarts to serve me, not FAANG.
You can infer it. It's hard to see it as a "world" because it's purely solipsistic. "I get to do what I want, when I want. I get to dictate the behaviour and appearance of everyone around me, on pain of disappearance and/or death. I get to consume whatever I wish; I get to tell you what you may consume to match my self-deluded conception of what 'morality' is." Etc.
Of course, when your philosophy is tyranny, it ends up not being what all the would-be tyrants wanted, or what they thought they wanted. But they lack the self-reflection to foresee that.
There has of course been bad behaviour and bad faith in a whole bunch of Kickstarters.
On the other hand, RPGs are a marginal business even for most “established” companies, with the exception of Wizards of the Coast. Almost no one gets rich off this business. So while I back stuff only quite infrequently, I’m not mad that companies do it.
Suicide is a risk in life as with any other ailment. Most plans won’t pay out during the first couple of years, but do after that. So clearly the insurance companies themselves count it an acceptable risk for them. Maybe in that context you would care to elaborate?
I want to like this article and to share it with my relatives to help explain what I am so angry about. But it is so thick with irony and deep-cut references that even I, a long-time extremely online dude, had trouble parsing all of it.
Greece was also praised for banning so-called ‘conversion therapy’ for minors and other ‘vulnerable persons’, as well as prohibiting non-consensual surgeries performed on intersex countries.
As a citizen of Intersexia, this is encouraging news.
Dead orca. Came upon marine biologists cutting up and disposing of a beached orca, and the smell was like a physical wall, and then a repeated series of roundhouse kicks to the face and eyes. Just an indescribable stench, regular rotting meat dialed up to dimension-warping, sanity-threatening levels. I will never forget it. I would never ever have got closer, but my girlfriend was driving and she knew one of the biologists and was really interested to chat about it right next to the pickup filled with chunks of tail. Just unreal all around.
Yup, these exist, where you end up covering the awkwardly shaped opening in fabric and attaching the house to that shroud. Unfortunately, floor units are hideously inefficient. Better than nothing though.
The rule is that you don’t capitalize prepositions (“of”, “in”, etc.), conjunctions (“and”, “but”, “or”, etc.), or articles (“the”, “a”, “an”). There might be a couple odd cases but those should be enough to keep you out of trouble with the people that get mad about Oxford commas. :-)
Ironically, because of its security features, GrapheneOS only supports Pixel phones. Very tail-eating snake territory.