Also, there’s probably a lot of money to be made in being a font hunter for these companies. You find a company that has infringed on the font holder’s rights. You bring that information to them. You get permission to sue on their behalf and then reap the rewards. And most companies will fork out the $20,000 rather than spend $50 or $100,000 on Litigation, and the font rights holder will catch the $20,000 on the year after for free
My stepdad once made coleslaw that smelled like burnt rubber. Me and my siblings told him that we would not eat the coleslaw, it would taste like burnt rubber. And he tried to convince us that since we had never eaten burnt rubber before in the past, that we couldn’t possibly know what burnt rubber tastes like, and therefore we should eat the coleslaw.
It turned into an hours-long argument about how you don’t have to actually eat burnt rubber in order to know what burnt rubber smells like, and that there’s no good reason for coleslaw to smell like burnt rubber.
In the end, me and my siblings won, and we did not eat the coleslaw, but I don’t understand how you can cook coleslaw… no, wait, you don’t even cook coleslaw!
I don’t know how you can prepare coleslaw so poorly as to have it smell like burnt rubber, and I don’t know how you can be so married to your burnt rubber coleslaw that you would attempt to force children to eat it, regardless of the fact that it smells like burnt fucking rubber.
The only thing that would be better than animal trials would be some sort of flawless digital recreation of a human being that scientists can infinitely experiment on.
Preferably a wide variety of human beings, white, black, Asian, native, male, female, young, old, with current diseases, without current diseases, etc., etc.
Until that technology exists, animal testing is the next best thing.
If you want to skip animal testing, then you’re just going to start doing Joseph Mengele’s experiments in the Nazi death camps again, and we’ve been there, and we learned a lot from it, but it was absolutely atrocious, and not worth what we got from it.
advertising and privacy
Some people think it’s great that the ads that are following them around all of the time from device to device and always knows exactly what they want before they do is a nice thing.
But advertisers sometimes know more about you than you do, and that is disturbing, and they are monetizing them every facet of your life.
Even if you can only block 20 to 50% of the ads, you are doing yourself a great service.
Even more so if you can poison them somehow.
The less accurate information global corporations have about you, the better it will be for you.
Yeah, the ideal of the internet was that, ultimately, we would all have our own little box in our house that we would post our stuff to, and our friends would read it and see it, and maybe a few passers by on the internet would observe it, and that would be a way of journaling our lives and sharing them with each other.
Instead of being a global hearth, it has become a global marketplace, a battleground for power in the form of advertising revenue, sales revenue, and tracking every bit of data they can possibly get from you.
This is so that, 1, they can sell more things to you, and 2, so they can sell that information to other people who, like themselves, do not have your best interest in mind and do not care one fuck about you.
My childhood friend was like that. His name was Tim. Everyone liked him. He was loud, he was brash. He was a bigger guy. He was not very attractive, but he had charismatic personality, and people were drawn to him.
And he was such a douchebag.
I haven’t talked to him in, like, a decade. But last I heard, he was still just douchebagging it up everywhere. No job broke as shit. People still coming over to his house to smoke weed and watch tv even though they’re in their freakin’ 30s and 40s and shit.
I am well aware of the consequences of my decision, lol.
It’s a small price to pay.
I would go into red dwarf and age at the normal speed and then go to the backwards time dimension and grow younger. I like pop out 10 years younger, 10 years from now and just really annoy the shit out of everybody.
Small bird or larger
I just used the cheap peppermint star candies that are like 2 for $2.99 now
A trick I was taught very young was to suck on a mint candy, and then when you actually have your test, to also bring a mint candy with you.
The story I was told is that mint causes the blood vessels in your face and head to dilate, so your brain gets a little more oxygen.
Then the olfactory and taste sensation being the same from when you were studying to when you were actually being tested on the topic can help your brain remember the information and recall it when it’s needed.
I cannot prove that this has worked, but for me at least I’ve always been extremely good at tests doing this and maybe that had some part in it.
Two words: banana bread.
We are one minor mutation of a common banana disease away from having to get an entirely new kind of banana, and frankly we are not prepared for that.
Reaching out from time to time, initiating conversation, sending a random stupid meme, something, anything to just keep communication and contact functioning.
I don’t use it at all directly, but occasionally an answer generated on Reddit will pop up on a search I’m doing on a different site
This is like a perfect visual representation of what I say I’m gonna do to her when I’m rizzing her up versus what I’m actually capable of doing to her.
Note: Only use this trick with affirmative consent.
They finally made a pill that replicates the side effects of my physical appearance.
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an FFMPEG command to run in PowerShell to automatically convert all of them.
Good idea would be to create a version of yourself in your head with a set date five years from now.
Write down what they have achieved and what they have going for them.
Compare yourself to that as you approach that five-year date.