Yeah, this. It’s an amazingly well-written novel… seriously, one of the greats. But I would absolutely never describe it as a love story. That definitely requires some amount of reciprocation and not just grooming and rape.

the first-ever flame-throwing quadruped robot dog

A very competitive category, as we all know

Press it a thousand times and then transition back 🤷‍♂️

Welcome to 196 😂 first time?

I’d say it’s closer to the rule than the exception, but is closer to the middle than either of them.

Yes, a lot of addicts - most, probably - just shift their addiction to something else (hopefully something healthier), but that’s in no way universal.

Add onto that… the waters get real muddy when you start defining addiction. Is it still addiction if it’s good for you? Like, if I can’t get through a week without some celery, would people even call me an addict? If I can’t start my day without a run, would anyone ever think to say I have a problem?

If someone kicked you in the balls, would it be ok for everyone you meet after that to punch you in the face?

But that isn’t the situation. The situation is that you can choose to let someone kick you in the balls, or you can choose to let a whole gang mug you. There isn’t a third choice, no matter how much you want there to be. Third party candidates are a great ideal, but until we have a different voting system, it will continue being an ideal instead of reality.

Idk, you’re running the risk of brown backfiring if cats are dicks or don’t have anything interesting to say. Purple gives you a potential income stream, at least

Indirectly?

I would think that in general it comes down to understanding what “ownership” is and that it has been taken from us, replaced with “licensing”

Your mistake is thinking that the average person

1. Knows that this is happening/has happened, since it’s rarely clearly or prominently stated,
2. Understands what it means, since it doesn’t often affect them,
3. And in the uncommon scenario where both 1 and 2 are met: actually cares at all.

It’s wild, because it used to be that you bought a movie and it didn’t matter that the rights ran out you could still watch your fucking movie in your own home.

I understand the concern and I’m sure it does happen, but I have literally never heard this complaint from a single person that I actually know. What movies/services has this actually happened to?

No argument against anything you said related to copyright laws, just to be clear.

Nah, miss me with your Israeli propaganda. Blame the people that pull the trigger while aiming at you.

Why do “artists” think they’re holy and should be protected?

Has anyone ever implied that it’s just artists? Automation putting people out of work has always been a major fear, and has been realized over and over again. It’s not “just artists,” it just so happens that art is the domino that is currently falling.

Needing help doesn’t make you a bad person - do it. If it makes them think less of you, them they weren’t very good friends anyway.

Everyone struggles at times. Anyone can fall on hard times. That doesn’t make you a piece of shit, it makes you unlucky - especially when it’s for medical reasons!

It would have to be different implementations for different architectures, and so almost definitely have a C-based fallback