I bet that’s why they’re pushing people onto piefed; to prevent more from being exposed to subsversive reality

The Chinese will likely be the first ones to know for certain considering that they’ve already demonstrated a willingness to spend a metric fuck ton into public infrastructure like the United States used to do for its military.

I was thinking of insulin.

The person who created it likewise refused to protect it from profit motives because he also felt that it belonged to humanity and it became captured to the detriment of humanity as a result.

Agreed and all of those w tracks to squeeze out as much as we can from silicon.

There’s a limit that we haven’t yet reached but we will eventually because of those profits.

I bet that China will be the first to reach it since they’re willing to spend so much on all infrastructure.

you should patent this!

agreed; i’m definitely an edge case and shared my experience to counter the narrative that it’s ALWAYS bad.

it definitely depends on the person; i’m a man and i thought it was flattering af the few times it happened to me.

i suspect that we’ve neared the end of what we can get out of using silicon and the only way forward, at this point, is to switch materials altogether into something like graphene or carbon; but i bet it would take a long time to ever do that because the profit motives that keeps on silicon won’t allow for it.

It’s very easy to miss what women go through on a regular basis when you’re a man tbh.

but ULTRA surprising and VERY ego inflating when it does happen, but probably only so if you’re a man. lol

The Living End by Gregg Araki

the movie touches on many of the problems/insecurities that young americans had to deal with back in the late-80’s/early-90’s and stands in stark contrast to the world of today’s millenials & genz adults, but it’s still familiar in deeply touching and troubling ways.

every time i watch it, it never fails to remind me of an aspect of life that i lived, but had completely forgotten about in the decades since then and Araki has a way of making each one feel like an old wound that you forgot you had like it’s some sort emotional battle scar from living life.

a VERY young ethan hawke is in it and i’ve never disliked anything he’s ever done. lol

i would have died cancer from the depleted uranium weapons in iraq.

instead, i’m just saddled with student debt for the rest of my life with useless degree to show for it and a marriage that was forced to end by the federal gov’t w zero prospects for another.

i went to college and i regret it; but i suppose i regret it less than going to the army like i originally planned.

it’s also common among the top 50% of income earners in the united states and the other 50% of poor people only have them if they live in jurisdictions where air conditioning is mandated by law.

i bet air conditioned still won’t be legally mandated in american housing law in such a scenario. lol

or worse yet, everyone’s compelled to buy air conditioning rent or “insurance”… aka the true american way. lol

can’t wait for the day that the american gov’t puts this in an advisory warning for americans after we let climate change do its thing to us. lol

sounds like they did better than i did. lol

i wish i had this realization when i was younger. lol

back then, i was deeply confused when i learned that people were getting off to a surreptitiously recorded hookup that featured me because i assumed no fancied me; yet there was in in my full glory laughing at the wailing coming from the man i’m pleasuring and the video had over 100k likes/upvotes.

it wouldn’t have made me a millionaire; but it would have gotten me a hell of a lot closer than i will ever be. lol

and at least i got a husband out of the whole affair; i like silver linings. lol

Yes. In an ideal world, people won’t have to do any dangerous or difficult jobs. But for now, we can’t start with the worst offenders.

do you believe that all sex work is dangerous or difficult?

do you believe that easy & safe but compulsory work as a means to get obtain food and shelter is an ideal world?

that is fanstastic and needs to go into the meme community somehow. rotflmao

i don’t thing anyone can argue against self reliancy in our critical infrastructure.

our disagreement is centered on the misguded belief that the western world (the united states in particular) will ever stop burning fossil fuels. the united states became self reliant on fossil fuels during the biden years and the epsteins will guarantee that americans will stay trapped in this climate killing version of self reliancy until they’ve squeezed every last drop of oil profits out of the united states and venezuela.