2 demons for under a penny is quite a deal.

This is how I feel trying to order a margarita without added sugar.

If you’re into that kind of speculation, you might enjoy “The Cosmic Serpent” by Jeremy Nearby.

There’s a lot to unpack there bud. You don’t sound okay. None of that was in the comic, you brought all that baggage.

What are you talking about? The pink one has a line of scary warning symbols including a skull and crossbones just under the word humectant.

We could use something like the international fixed calendar and just make the new year’s day and leap days a day of the week so that the calendar shifts by a day or two every year.

You don’t need a lot of logic to play tic-tac-toe. I’ve heard of a book that will play tic-tac-toe with you perfectly, except for one intentional mistake that allows a win. Every other game ends in a draw if you don’t make a mistake yourself.

I’m gonna guess that it’s durian ice cream.

They should be equally acceptable without needing to be sexualized. But even if you like seeing tits, the best way to see other’s is to not be weird, dehumanizing, or non-consenting about it. That’s like the 1 rule of etiquette anyway, try within reason to not make other people uncomfortable.

I only have transition lens on my prescription safety glasses because construction sites are hazardous to glasses and eyes at all times. I don’t always have clean hands for switching. And switching itself leaves your eyes vulnerable to shit while switching. It’s also the only time I don’t want polarized lens because they often make screens difficult to read.

For everyday, I carry a polarized set and a regular set and get swapped between the same case. They are basically the same frames too so they both fit because my head is to large for most frames that aren’t sunglasses frames anyway. If I’m planning on being mostly outside, I may only bring the polarized lens because they don’t actually block that much light inside even though they block about %50 of the light outside. Tinted lens that aren’t polarized usually just cause additional eye strain for me anyway. Also only polycarbonate lens for outside also because even if they have no tinting they are blocking UV light.

Clip on lens are prone to trouble. They will either scratch your prescription lens or just get gunked up themselves since you’re doubling the surface area that needs to be kept clean.

In general I spend WAY more thought and money on things for or touching my eyes, feet, hands, and private sweaty bits. Try out things and see what works for you. For example, I was surprised how great wool socks are for hot sweaty climates.

I disagree on ever single point you’ve said here.

Sounds like a skill issue. Good translation is hard and is rarely a literal one to one mapping of syntax and diction. It’s an interpretive art.

Sounds like a skill issue. Bad translations are bad because they don’t find good ways to translate these kinds of things. As you say, translation isn’t just about the words, it’s about cultural context. But, bad translations aren’t inevitable just because good translations are difficult.

We all wear a mask.

I got my first Gmail address through an invite during the beta release in late 2004.

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The only free society we will get is an anarchist one where people agree to work together and create rules that they can all abide by. Those who don’t want to abide by the communities rules can leave.

That’s not anarchy. That’s some form of democracy.

Any top-down system of governance will never be free by its very nature.

That’s exactly the kind of logic bullies use to inflict their freedom on others.

Society only works by consent. If the people do not consent to the laws, they are authoritarian and should be resisted.

Real “I’m 14 and this is deep” energy here. Laws and governance of any kind are inherently rooted in consent to authority. Hell, even being a good citizen in an anarchy is about consenting to the authority of etiquette, basically the tyranny of empathy over free will. Authority invites resistance, arguing for resistance to authority simply because it exists is an empty nothing burger of a philosophy.

This all feels like a libertarian dog whistle to excuse politics lacking any empathy.

Does it really matter what the machines “think” if they steal water and other resources from poor and vulnerable communities on a scale that makes Nestlé jealous?

I see the irony is lost on you.