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They're angry over one of the most basic components of his character?

I was kind of joking about that post about how you couldn't make Blazing Saddles nowadays, but I guess it's just true. You can't even make Superman these days without them complaining he's woke.

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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

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One of my big operating ideologies as an educator is that talent is fake. Let me explain that.

I do not believe anyone has any inherent quality that makes them better or worse at things.

I do believe some people improve at certain things faster than others, but this is not because they secretly have a better stat in whatever. It's because every single human being has a bunch of weird little idiosyncrasies and quirks that will be unexpectedly conducive to something.

For example, I know I am, in a word, floridly lingual. Insofar as tests prove anything I have tested in some preposterously high percentiles for language skills fairly consistently throughout my entire life. I consider myself quite talented as a writer.

This cannot be meaningfully separated from a couple of facts:

-I am autistic and one of the biggest avenues I stim in is words and sounds. This means that on any given day I am spending at least part of it just messing with words.

-I grew up with parents that loved to read and loved to talk, so when they had kids they wanted to show affection or bonding with they proceeded to talk to me a lot, transcribe random silly stories I told them, play with me with accents, read books with me and talk to me about those books, etc etc.

-I was socially rewarded for being Smart Kid that read Big Books

The end result of all of this? Because of habits I had for various reasons, I put in a huge amount of work and practice into reading and writing without thinking of it that way because it didn't 'feel' like work. It just felt like "I like talking about books with my mom", it just felt like "play-pretend stories are the most reliable way for me to socialize", it just felt like standing at the counter warming up a toaster strudel going "creem cheems creem cheems" to myself because the box said 'cream cheese' on it.

I believe that talent is fake, insofar as no one is inherently good at anything. As someone who professionally juggled babies for six years, have you ever seen a baby? They're bad at everything. Of course they are. They've never done it before and they're using a body made of unshaped gelatin. By the time anyone manifests being 'good at' anything they've been encouraged and coddled and cherished and nurtured.

Which is why all of those things- that affection, that rewarding, that patience, that intellectual scaffolding to make it easier to 'put the work in'- is critically important to give to anything and anyone you want to see improvement at.

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im joining the war on gross disgusting pornographic content on the side of gross disgusting pornographic content

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The other character dynamic of all time is “you and the you that’s allowed to be happy”

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NSFW and smut deserve to exist no matter what, especially weird furry stuff.

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"Why have you come to me?" the sword master asked.

"To learn how to be a man," the new student said.

The sword master looked at the class, and the wide selection of genders present.

"You don't need a sword to be a man."

"I know that. But what I see here tells me I have much to learn."

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Based on a true story

I only knew one way to tie things up.

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My Child

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FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

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i think all straight people should try being a little bisexual just to see how they feel about it. i dont even mean physically i just mean like. stare a photos of hot men for a bit. watch gay porn. deeply consider the potential of reconnecting with your childhood best friend who you kind of lost touch with despite how close you used to be, leading to a long slowburn romance in which you rediscover the things you love about eachother but don't want to commit in case it ruins your friendship. its called exploring your options ok.

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bad

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req'd by @confused-reading-ink-rat

this is on par with the vibes of asking someone if they've been a bad person mid-bang

text: Glucose Provider