wow that’s a lot of words. so, basically, you want a term to say ‘i’m straight, but i’d never date a trans person’, but you want it to somehow shield you from any suggestions that you might be somewhat transphobic, and you want it to free you from any obligation or expectation to introspect and unlearn the transphobia that society has programmed you with?

that’s fascinating. i was unfamiliar with tempeh and just read a bunch of wikipedia about it. i’ve been making my own tofu (usually out of black beans) for a while, but never tried tempeh.

so there’s three methods i’m aware of:

1. patreon, or some other similar scheme, as you said
2. use a following from writing fanfic to promote other, non-fanfic, work
3. take commissions from individuals

i’m a fairly deft hand at pottery. i’m also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that’s a pretty big expanse. if i’m really lucky, i’d be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i’ve also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren’t rewarded for it, and people who aren’t naturally greedy don’t get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

borderlands science in borderlands 3 is probably my all time favourite mini-game in a video game

The Problem With Popplers!

i assume they mean this definition, and not a hairdresser’s.

probably most of them do. epubs are mostly html after all.

there’s some niche communities i occasionally check in on on reddit, but i’ve basically abandoned the site ever since the api debacle killed my preferred app. i mostly just browse on mobile so a decent app was important to me.

an exception to what?

but you were certainly thinking it loudly. or how else was one to interpret ‘people from the 18th century wouldn’t be able to do something if it was technically challenging’?

a noose or an axe both put much more need on the skill of the executioner, while the guillotine puts more need on the skill of the engineer. both the axe and the noose are materially simpler, but still very fuckupable without special skills or training, while the guillotine, once built, is much more simply operated by one with less expertise. the guillotine is a tool of mass execution, and its apparent mechanical complexity is there to facilitate that, via ease of operation and resetability.

if anyone wants to learn more about The Briefcase mentioned in the article above, ONN also did a video news segment on the subject.

if we assume the bottom right corner is a right angle and is the center of the arc, then it is solvable in the manners that others here have already described. if either of those is not the case, and the image itself doesn’t state, then there is insufficient information to solve it.

when i got ghosted by my job, i wish i’d started looking for a new one sooner, before burning through so much of my savings.

i feel like each sentence of that was less coherent than the one before. you should keep going, get weirder with it, see where you end up.

tired? experts suggest going to sleep.

if they already have a local central heating system (extremely cool, never heard of that before), then why the heck not?

that only seems to talk about the use of the fasces as a symbol, which is pretty different from explicitly calling oneselves fascists, or holding specifically fascist beliefs. the same article lists a ton of other places one can find fasces. the symbol is much older than the ideology, but that doesn’t mean anything using the symbol shares the ideology.