The self endures

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
happyorogeny
jouissants

Pro tip is you can literally just read more books and get curious about books instead of generalizing about Publishing Today. There are thousands upon thousands of books out there being published by all kinds of presses from the big 5 to tiny indie presses. Go to your local library or independent bookstore or Bookshop.org and browse. Writing off the entirety of contemporary publishing for being too whatever is just as much anti-intellectualism as complaining that books are too hard for the average reader.

oneradmonster
euniexenoblade

The kindergarten-ification of society

euniexenoblade

My husband's work is forcing him to use an ai program that transcribes phone call conversations and it mistakenly recorded the word "poof" as "poop," and censored the word "p***" and marked the call for curse words. How old are we.

euniexenoblade

Can't be horny, can't be half naked, can't make decisions about our own bodies, can't buy video games, can't have any kinks, can't curse, can't say poop, what the fuck is this.

happyorogeny
yandere-angela

i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

butch-snorlax

How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that.

yandere-angela

1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout

2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method

3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini

4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying

and the transaction is complete

catsi
strawberry-crocodile

i feel like we don't appreciate bubbeline enough these days a kids show really had an adventuring hero boy and the princess he adored and instead of ending with them Monogamously Heterosexual Together she turned out to actually be messy exes with the hero boy's cool older goth frenemy and also a terrifying paranoid immortal god-queen of mad science and also she got back together with the goth chick.