I’m working on a physics project, and my simulator suits my purposes and produces reliable results. And I learned a teeny bit about coding building it.

Nah. They’re just avid Black Friday shoppers.

I’ll take one. I’ll sex those cats up

You’re talking about hats, right?

You can’t be expected to - broadly understand the world and your place in it - when every article, book, or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for.

Don’t feed the windego. It only grows hungrier.

Here’s something for your toolbox: our society commits idolatry constantly.

That’s how you get to phobic

Not like I’m gonna make art for anybody else anyway. Do I look like a fucking party clown? I’ll take your ideas, they’re gonna suck, and maybe if it’s impressive I’ll write a note I never look at again.

What’s this? Another purity test? You’re not doing enough and are, therefore, colluding with the oppressors?

Mmmmm. I’ll soundly sleep in a bathtub if it’s with a woman I love. Don’t love you? Too hot and uncomfortable. And, sleeping alone, I go back to my roots. Way back. If I feel like I’m hiding in a hole and the dinosaurs about to get fucked, I sleep so good.

All those harps and shit must be driving him nuts.

I grew up Wyoming. Yeah, I’ve seen it.

I think getting someone to change requires handling it with love. I am not placing myself above you here, so you’re aware.

I think you should talk to him instead of being sneaky about it.

Biology is so neat! I love animals. You should check out the velvet worm and social structures. Just fascinating that complex (and evidence suggests even more complex) social behavior arises from a ridiculously different neutral structure and evolutionary lineage. As for philosophy, may I point you to egalitarianism as the ultimate balance with the fact that mitochondria symbiosis may have started with predation. The host cell failed to digest it (maybe), and mitochondria, like your gut biome, was like, “yeah, this is chill, too.”

Me trying to take a dump

Oo, good point. Hierarchy is everywhere in nature, obviously. I was referencing manipulating status.

Virtue signaling is a very interesting primate trait. From lying about where you were last night to wearing clothing in the first place, manipulating your status is uniquely human. If dolphins or octopuses made a civilization, this would be unlikely to emerge.

Don’t forget traumatized and isolated