The difference in behaviour of confident people vs insecure people.
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Hozier really said to future generations, it’s not your fault. You can’t “work hard” and get what you need and want. It’s not your fault that the dreams of fifty years are now unrealistic and unattainable without breaking your soul and maybe not even getting it. You were fucked over before you came into this world, and they continue to fuck you over so much that it’s better to live your life as you see fit. It would be easier because being young and living as you want won’t ruin you but abiding by the systems most likely will.
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@htsan replied to your post “Beloved Kia would there be any other way of...”:
Do not use Patreon, they take 8% of your money. While if you do the same with Kofi I'm pretty sure you pay like 4.50 dollars flat a month.
(Also Patreon as a service is getting worse, dunno what's going on there)
i'll take note!
ko-fi isn't the best either due to how it uses paypal and paypal takes a 3% fee, which turns a $5 donation into $4.85 which is a HUGE difference when conversion and transfer fees as a non-american user costs a lot.
(my local digital wallet only transfers money from paypal if it's only exactly $5 and above. you can see why it's inconvenient)
but it makes do. i suppose lol
bit of a ramble here but:
the biggest problem is that online payment for work such as artist commissions and donations are incredibly inconvenient due to the lack of accessibility.
the most accessible digital "wallet" for international users is paypal. stuff like cashapp and venmo are region locked so it's really bad when paypal takes such massive fees from international users.
i wish it were easier for users like me, but we try to make do :p
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one of my favorite things about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is that he made it so that anyone who gave Twitter $8 could get the blue checkmark that indicates that the user is verified, so people on Twitter started paying for the verification check so they could impersonate tons of corporations on Twitter and tweet shit that cost some of the corporations billions of dollars in stock
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Alternate Text: A Tweet from an account with the Eli Lilly profile picture, handle (EliLillyandCo), and account name and a blue checkmark that says "We are excited to announce insulin is free now." (Eli Lilly is a pharmaceutical company notorious for jacking up prices/making drugs not affordable)
Alternate Text: a picture of the what Google shows when you search up "Eli Lilly stock," mainly a graph that starts out at nearly $370, steadily decreases to below $350 until a little before 12:00 pm, briefly climbs back up to just past $350 at just after 12:00 pm, and then continues climbing down. The graph is in red. Above the graph, the header says "352.30 USD: -16.08 (4.37%) down today"
Alternate Text: A Tweet from an account with the Lockheed Martin profile picture and account name, the handle LockheedMartini, and a verified checkmark that says "We will begin halting all weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States until further investigation into their record of human rights abuses. #WeAreLM" There is a picture of a jet flying in a blue sky with wispy clouds attached to the Tweet.
Alternate Text: a picture of the what Google shows when you search up "Lockheed Martin stock," mainly a graph that starts out at nearly $480 and is rapidly decreasing to just above $460 by 4:00 pm. The graph is in red. Above the graph, the header says "463.86 USD: -26.91 (5.48%) down today"
Alternate Text: two pictures, three Tweets total. The Tweet in the picture on the left comes from an account with the Nestlé name and profile picture, the handle NestleDeathCult, and a blue checkmark. The Tweet says "We steal your water and sell it back to you lol"
There are two Tweets in the picture on the right that both come from an account that has the Chiquita account name, profile picture, and handle (Chiquita) as well as a verified checkmark. The Tweet on the top reads "We've just overthrown the government of Brazil." The Tweet on the bottom reads "We apologize to those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Chiquita account. We have not overthrown a government since 1954."
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That stomach ache came with some baggage....
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On the one hand i think star trek not really having an internet equivalent is cool cos it shiws we developed an entire new and possibly better system, similar to how holosuites replaced film and tv, and it slso lets me speculate about whether internet connection as we know it works in deep space or 9ver long interstellar distances (idk how the internet works so i get to just imagine). But on the other hand it would be funny if data was a twitch streamer.
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