i’m Penrose Cash, filling in for Houndstooth Shakur, and you’re listening to NPR.

i can’t think of any reason it would.

i’ve read that lobsters are sorta immortal. the problem is they keep growing, and eventually they can’t get themselves out of their shells when they molt, and they also have trouble getting enough food and avoiding predators when they get too big. if they had society, i bet lobster kings would be enormous and ancient.

i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*

wow that’s a lot of words. so, basically, you want a term to say ‘i’m straight, but i’d never date a trans person’, but you want it to somehow shield you from any suggestions that you might be somewhat transphobic, and you want it to free you from any obligation or expectation to introspect and unlearn the transphobia that society has programmed you with?

it’s fun, but alas, false.

so there’s three methods i’m aware of:

1. patreon, or some other similar scheme, as you said
2. use a following from writing fanfic to promote other, non-fanfic, work
3. take commissions from individuals

i’m a fairly deft hand at pottery. i’m also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that’s a pretty big expanse. if i’m really lucky, i’d be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i’ve also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren’t rewarded for it, and people who aren’t naturally greedy don’t get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

also, he only has to spend like 30 seconds a day commuting to work.

borderlands science in borderlands 3 is probably my all time favourite mini-game in a video game

i assume they mean this definition, and not a hairdresser’s.

there’s some niche communities i occasionally check in on on reddit, but i’ve basically abandoned the site ever since the api debacle killed my preferred app. i mostly just browse on mobile so a decent app was important to me.

i’m in my mid 30s, live in the US, and get one or two points. i am pretty sure i’ve never recorded music off the radio onto a tape. i am not sure if i’ve ever sent or received a fax. i did record songs off of the radio directly onto my first mp3 player though.

but you were certainly thinking it loudly. or how else was one to interpret ‘people from the 18th century wouldn’t be able to do something if it was technically challenging’?

a noose or an axe both put much more need on the skill of the executioner, while the guillotine puts more need on the skill of the engineer. both the axe and the noose are materially simpler, but still very fuckupable without special skills or training, while the guillotine, once built, is much more simply operated by one with less expertise. the guillotine is a tool of mass execution, and its apparent mechanical complexity is there to facilitate that, via ease of operation and resetability.

if we assume the bottom right corner is a right angle and is the center of the arc, then it is solvable in the manners that others here have already described. if either of those is not the case, and the image itself doesn’t state, then there is insufficient information to solve it.

when i got ghosted by my job, i wish i’d started looking for a new one sooner, before burning through so much of my savings.

clown orgy

actually there’s this new thing they just came up with called ‘bad dreams’. it’s literally bad times, in dreams!