Within less than an hour, Rule 34 will come into effect and someone will make a porn-film about them.

Entitled to what exactly? Her chin shape?

Whether he admitted it or not, unless she’s gone through the process of actually trademarking her chin shape (which I doubt) it’s not going to be nearly a unique enough feature to waste the courts time with.

The only question the courts have to ask is if there is a reasonable chance that a “viewer” could recognize that as her chin when watching the movie and did it do anything to her reputation as a result. The answer of course is no. No one would have EVER known it as her if Cameron hadn’t mentioned it in passing.

I’m guessing she’s either:

a) hoping Cameron and his lawyers go for a quick settlement because they figure it would be cheaper than going to court. Or…

b) Stirring up shit to get her name in the media to bolster a career that has so far been largely B-level supporting roles and guest-spots.

Corporations are not your friend. Ethics plays no part in it. It’s economics. If they price themselves out of the competition, that’s their problem, not yours.

Favourite: Chick Peas

Least: Fava beans

I’ve had times when I’ve felt exactly the same. And the conclusion that I’ve come to, and the mantra that I repeat to myself is:

“Who you are, What you do, and how you pay your bills” don’t need to be the same thing. And in fact you don’t want them to be.

Two out of the three is fine. But all three being the same should be avoided like the plague.

After 9/11 completely tanked my planned career in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology, I floated around for a bit. Got some IT certs, but mostly have worked a series of crappy retail management gigs. And yeah…for a long time, it bothered the fuck out of me. It didn’t help that I suffered from depression. But I get that same “what’s the point feeling”.

But I’ve also written for my entire life, and I have a number of things that I’m become decent to good at over the years that I’ve used for passion projects. I was bored so I learned video editing and use those skills on other people’s low budget projects. I have a decent level of Blender knowledge and I enjoy flight simming, so I spend a lot of time creating aircraft for X-Plane. Both of those have netted me very minor amounts of money through paypal donations, etc… But that’s secondary to doing something that I love because I don’t need them to pay my bills for me.

So while retail management is how I pay my bills, it’s not who I am and it’s not what I do. In fact I tried doing the freelance writing thing for a bit and I ended up miserable because What I do and How I pay the bills became the same thing and it stopped being fun.

Retail management pays my bills, and allows me the free-time necessary to pursue my passions in my free time.

Long story short, and I apologize if you don’t find this helpful at all, but you’re biggest disservice to yourself is thinking that “working at Walmart” is who you are. It’s not. It’s just how you pay the bills so that you can pursue your actual talents on a full belly.

Look…I’m not saying forever. But for now, just do whatever France and Spain say.

They’re the only ones in this whole fucking debacle that aren’t trying to hedge their bets by licking Trump’s peen while slowly taking only measures that won’t trigger him.

They’re the only ones who have very correctly realized that the U.S. needs the E.U. far more than the E.U. needs them.

I’m the Trump-whisperer: Here’s the translation

“Might” = “Most definitely will”

“if” = “Regardless of whether or not”

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

That is very true. However (at least from what I was always taught) the reason employers “require” ANY degree is less about what you learn and more about showing them that you have ability and commitment necessary TO learn.

An employer isn’t generally interested in what you know; they’re always going to teach you their way of doing things anyway.

Employers want to know that you have the focus to actually learn their systems.

So the end result of “fast degrees” will be the opposite of what job hunters think. It’ll just devalue degrees in the eyes of employers because it no longer signifies the very metric they were measuring, which was the ability to pay attention

On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.

But all you’re doing in that case is making them attend a community college with a bunch of wacky misfits for a few years.

My only concern would be a question of retention.

It’s easy to pass an exam if you’re writing it almost immediately after taking in the information. But remembering the information at the end of the school year when you’re writing your final exam and it’s a topic you learned in the first week takes a different kind of study skill.

It boils down to the old Cram for midterms question. How much do you retain?

My take is that retention comes from revisiting a topic multiple times over the course of a year. One and done studying to pass an exam doesn’t leave an imprint on the memory that’s going to last.

And yet the Trump regime STILL somehow manages to fuck up badly enough to lose the moral high ground against them.

My dad’s a gynecologist. He looks at vaginas all day long.

ummmm…so what’s with the knife?

“Intimate” is a completely subjective term. Some people, like it or not, don’t consider nudity to be intimate and are therefore more than happy to use it to their advantage. Just because you wouldn’t, doesn’t make you the arbiter or what is or isn’t considered intimate.

So, as you say “Clearly being the more preferable job” is a meaningless statement. A vegan wouldn’t rent out their body to work in a slaughterhouse. A pacifist wouldn’t rent out their body to the military. Just because you wouldn’t rent out your body for people to enjoy on the internet doesn’t make it objectively worse than any other profession. It’s just your perspective.

I’m not saying that there aren’t issues in the porn industry. Of course there are, tonnes of them. But renting out your body to perform manual labour or renting out your body for people to look at on the internet are not as different as you think.

if someone has to grant access to their body, under threat of starvation or homelessness

But that’s employment in a nutshell, though. A welder rents out his body to a company to weld steel beams for 8 hours a day. An accountant rents out their body to sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day and crunch numbers. A salesperson rents out their body to cold-call for 8 hours a day.

No matter what, we’re coerced into giving or body to perform someone else’s labour. The fact that it doesn’t always involve nudity doesn’t change anything vis a vis your bodily autonomy.

If the guy in the header photo didn’t at some point say “Suck it, Trebek”, I’ll be very disappointed.

I feel like this really is a mini-test for America right now. Orban has been trying his best to rig the election in his favour despite is very obvious unpopularity. He’s behind in polling; and would be even further behind without his fuckery in the background.

So one of two things will happen on April 12th, either the result will be so overwhelming that if he tries to claim it was rigged, it would be an obviously bullshit claim. Or he’ll somehow sneak in with the victory despite being behind the entire time (sound familiar).

Can Hungary overcome his fuckery is a direct mirror to the American midterms. Will Trump accept the results, or refuse to leave. And if it’s the second, will Hungarian people rise up?

Trump is an idiot. The rest of his people vary from incompetent to simply evil.

I’d bet my life that the nuclear briefcase that Trump masturbates to every night is a fake. Someone in his circle has long since clipped the red wire to prevent him doing just that during a midnight Truth Social post.

Don’t let the doorknob hit their ass on the way out.

Worst case scenario is Russia tries to take advantage of the situation and gets curb stomped by a NATO that is roughly 30% weaker but still more than powerful enough to handle the paper tiger that Russia has proven itself to be.

Trump is dead within a year, guaranteed. The GOP will fall to infighting after the cult of personality ends, and when the next president wants to clean up his mess and rejoin NATO, they can be allowed back in without the bullshit VETO that they for some reason have. They can return as an equal, not as a boss.