My retirement dream of pooling money with friends and moving to a ghost town where we can trade services and goods with each other is really the only viable option at this point.

so i guess this morning i am just kind of meditating on the fact that when you reject AI as a creator you are not just bringing things back to the baseline, you are actually PUSHING in the other direction. you are opening space for human joy and creation and even income and that is so cool

I'm not trying to change your mind, but I want to present the Epson ecotank. We often print stickers at home w/ our own art to celebrate personal events like gatherings or show off trends we're into. It would be more costly to do regular small batch sticker print through a service than own a printer

I definitively stumbled upon a secret anime watching group in my college dorm. We had bootleg dubs on VHS. You could not talk about anime watching group. You did not want anyone to know except the people who were already there and anyone who solved the clues to get there. This was 1999.

Tornado conditions vs. Tornado present. Why are we using two words that start with W when we have a whole vocabulary of words that would be a lot easier to differentiate?

We have ideas of whether or not people with different beliefs will be welcomed to a blue/red state, varying by the state. In a situation where you'd be othered, I think it's easier for some people to feel victimized than for others to step into potential harm/verbal abuse for a long-term vote cause.

Dems could do the same with states like Wyoming. It would take less than 500 people to flip enough counties to turn the state.

This isn’t an economic thing as much as a spite thing.

People who struggled with reading because of dyslexia or other reasons may also come back to the idea of books by reading with audiobooks. There's so much unnecessary stigma. If you're spending time with a text, critical thinking, developing thoughts about it, discussing it, you're doing the goal.

They created an EV Hub in Ohio that's being used to make more vehicles that use gasoline. It's a shame there's so way to pull their building incentives for the bait and switch of their real manufacturing purpose.

Check your area's community college library. Many offer the same or similar access to databases for district residents of the county as they do students at the college.

I also want to throw out Busy Beaver Button Co. for their stickers. Woman owned. Family run. They've got a museum that's partially supported by the success of the products of the company, so every sale works towards supporting that.

Should have had a Bigfoot in an Uncle Sam top hat named Sesqwatch. PUT ME IN CHARGE!

Did it work, though? Or did they still fall off by end of day?

Likely the bots can't figure out what xers, millennials, and zoomers on this platform even want to be pandered with.

You can picture BHH as a movie. Somehow, that makes it feel more real and present as you're going along with the story spanning generations.