the vast, vast majority

Not to disagree with your main point - everyone deserves to be paid - but porn scales so well that we might already have enough free amateur production for everyone. It just doesn’t get to the top of SEO-optimized searches.

No such thing. Live out loud, grow a big beard if you want.

How come they don’t count? They’re figuring out how the machines should work, for money. That’s engineering, right? (I’m an American mechanical engineer)

Brilliant advertising. That could be me!

In which market is Steam a monopoly?

If the developers want to just directly sell me their games old school I’d be cool with that.

Half the white people: Yee haw, I’m gonna shoot some minorities! I’m in a militia!

Other half of white people: Don’t worry, the police will protect you. No militias gangs allowed!

If it really ramps up, we could share block lists too, like with ad blockers. So if a friend (or nth-degree friend) blocks someone, then you would block them automatically.

Or the parasitic larva

Calling them weird isn’t going to work at all, that’s an absolutely terrible idea. Everyone wants weird. We need weird right now, just not their weird. We should be upping our weird game and present options that will work, that centrist libs will say are weirdly communist or anarchist sounding.

Things are about to change big time and it’s too late to stop that. The best we can do is shape it into something good. But nobody is buying tickets on the normal train. If you’re here on Lemmy, then you sure aren’t.

I can believe it.

In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.

Normalize political energy. Howard Dean should have won.

Believe it or not, sexism!

They usually place the man’s name first and then only pass on those names.

We just made up portmanteau names for our kids, based on what sounded good. Over time, this should improve the overall coolness of last names.

We need another Nader. Jill Stein just doesn’t cut it.

Thank you for your patience. I’m sorry I didn’t do the think you asked for, at all. Here’s the exact same output though.

It’s surprising the psychological difference of “net seventeen people think you’re an asshole” vs “twenty people think you’re an asshole, but three people get you”.

That’s because anyone with a conscience and brain wants to shut them all down right now.

How were you too autistic for engineering?

2009-2017 boomed a little too

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