You can get banned from any community if the mods decide to - the good news is a communty called “ye power tripping bastards” which serves as the court to get an appeal, if that’s important to you

Although his thesis was on designing hardware to function under a different set of physical laws.

I can imagine them digging it out of storage in the future before we make a trip to another universe

Cigarettes - I’d probably go with cigars now, anyway. I’m evolving!

Also, industrial sabotage on behalf of an environmental cause. Okay that’s not because i’m scared i guess i’ve just been too lazy. Also no point making other workers’ lives harder, most of the time. Point me in the direction of a truly worthy cause and I’ll bring a sledgehammer

I can completely understand wanting to use reddit again (hope you stick with us too, if you do) but you should know it’s super hard to get past any kind of permanent ban.

Did you use multiple reddit accounts or just one? the problem for me is that i got IP banned because they detected me logging in to a banned one on the same browser. It is borderline impossible for me to use reddit for commenting & posting again.

most of the people on it seem to be crazy or racist

Yeah I would credit that to twitter, which is how it spreads.

I’m not deep into the world of online blog congregators but I think medium is the clean alternative to Substack.

It’s a place for twitter users to roleplay as intellectual essayists (okay some of them are totally worthwhile tbf) because twitter itself is designed for sharing brainfarts rather than cognizant thoughts

Don’t worry about it, just say what comes to mind

Yeah I don’t really like this one. I’ve liked it the last 2 or 3 times I tried it but I had one that went too overboard on herbs and it felt like how an actual toad would feel to eat

Most people honestly don’t use clear lines in their logic. Even for many laws and ethics, we don’t. I personally think this is okay because using the “drawing a line” thinking is restrictive, meaning it doesn’t allow you to grow so well, intellectually-speaking.

A common way people fail to keep to their lines in the sand is when they justify their side, politically speaking, to do something that they’ve demanded the enemy cannot do. This is bad and unfair. But then again, I’m sure a lot of you will be guilty of this way of thinking throughout your life - we’re only human.

because, unironically, they get kicked out of criminal club for not dressing the same way.

Have you ever seen those cop shows where someone has to go undercover in a drug trade or something and they get accused of being a cop instantly? It’s like that. The cops, having not spent a while acclimatising to criminal culture, are caught unaware by the rules at play.

So, ironically, even the people who like to believe they’re rebelling against society, are very adherent to strict societal rules like dress code.

Yeah. Although, every baby boomer who’s talked to me about catholic school seems really traumatised by it

I’ve taught him about “low quality” content and we’ve watched a couple so he could understand what I meant. Now, when he wants to watch something like that, I say “no, that’s going to be low quality,” he seems to understand and we move on to find something else.

Honestly never thought about how I would teach my (hypothetical, future) kid this stuff. I have the benefit of a decade of experience learning how youtube works and living through the clickbait endemic.
I guess that’s why it’s so important for parents to navigate YouTube together with them. My first experience of YT was also watching cool stuff like VSauce and Lego animations with my family.

That said, we were at a restaurant the other day and a woman was there with her baby and a friend. She set that infant in a high chair with AI slop on her phone right in its face. The kid definitely didn’t disturb her conversation, because it looked like a zombie. Godspeed, child

Sometimes you see toddlers who are just playing blaring loud noises from tablets at restaurants. You also see adults&teenagers doing that on trains… I guess I would point them out to my kid afterwards and say “that’s what happens when you watch too mcuh brainrot!”

For example, I once heard a story about how a guy about 17 years old was dating his teacher who had a twelve-year-old daughter, and I heard they got married and had another child.

Where was that? Cos I’m getting “Rural America”

TBH it would probably be fun unless your step-children are WAY older than you, I figure the guy in your example had it best. And I can’t help but think “lucky her” for the teacher mom.

There’s the argument that you’re sacrificing dating people you’re own age but some of us just vibe better with older ladies.

My English teacher at high school apparently married an ex-student about 1 year after he finished school. Nothing underhanded, they just met up again and struck it up. She was built nicely, like Sofia Vergara.

Pasta bowl using chopped tomatoes and onion.

Cries Britishly

I think people only regard it as good at the “escort” job title. I’m lead to believe thst the distinguishing trait of an escort is getting to choose whether they, well, escort a client or not.

I would love to be a youtuber but i suppose it can all go away just like that. I would struggle to stick to just one area for content, but j suppose the audience chooses thst bit for you based on what’s successful or not

Video editing is surprisingly fun, but i think tiktok ruins the fun - don’t you have to do it in a tiny little phone screen? It’s not right.

That’s awesome. Not everyone can say that they enjoyed raising kids

I relate heavily to this. Feels like there’s no time for me to catch up with modern programming

And Ampere? Well, he was just ecststic to be there.