This is essentially just stealing from poor college kids. Despicable. I hardly ever bought any media in college (books, CDs, whatever). I spent an incredible amount of time at the school library studying there. I couldn’t afford to buy the books. If a book was mandatory then I had to find a different class to fill that slot.

Thank you for not being one of those professors who writes their own “book” which is 85 pages stapled together that they charge $150 for.

I read a really wise quote in The Trouble with Peace last night.

“If you get angry every time the Closed Council does something infuriating, you’ll spend your whole life angry.”

I like that it really shows that we need to exercise control over our emotions, and not let other people’s actions drive us to anger, even when their actions are infuriating. I highlighted it to remember it, so that I can use it in my own life.

I promise you this is not a joke that Christians would tell.

Downvoted for insufferable soapboxing.

WHERE?

That is indeed a considerably worse option.

Give your cats some water! Geeze. Cats will go into kidney failure from a lack of water in like a single day. They wouldn’t be doing this if they had access to fresh water.

I’ll be in the bathtub with a toaster if anyone needs me.

Here’s something interesting I’ve discovered. Time does indeed pass more quickly in the moment when you’re having fun. But having fun experiences to break up the monotony of life makes the days, weeks, months, or years more full, and actually make your life seem longer and more enjoyable. When you do nothing, it all blends together in your memory and the years vanish.

Can’t they do that with multiple cameras and save time?

Okay, maybe I’ll fall for it one more time, and that’s it!

Honestly, with the power these companies have now, it could realistically be all 3 of your options, and they would still profit immensely and face no accountability.

“and this is where we do our blood boy transfusions. Pardon the ivory floors, I know those are faux pas these days.”

What’s more likely is that nobody will ever see or use your community.

Ha! That’s pretty good, and probably very accurate.

That’s already happening. Posts from my friends are seldom, and progressively less meaningful. Most are just shares of some dumbass sponsored content. Conversation is dead. But this is a big one, Facebook has AI users now that can keep up the appearance of a thriving site indefinitely, duping advertisers out of billions.

MySpace was sold to News Corp for $580 million dollars. Then they purged everyone’s accounts, all their blogs, posts, pictures, everything. Talk about not knowing what they bought. Serious WTF. Users could submit a form and get some but not all of their profile back. One year later MySpace was worth an estimated $35 million. It was the worst tech acquisition until Twitter. This all coincided with Facebook opening up to the public and becoming more popular. So it’s not exactly that MySpace just collapsed, Rupert Murdoch killed it.

My two best friends always had breakfast like you see on TV because both of their moms were homemakers. Another friend’s grandparents were like that too. I always loved staying at their houses.

Ew! Drinking orange juice while eating cereal is gross.