cosecantphi [he/him]

I don’t have much experience with cocaine or stimulants in general, but I have gone through the ringer of opioid addiction. I’m five years clean now thanks to Buprenorphine.

From that horrific experience, my gut feeling is that there is no possible way sugar is anywhere near as addictive as opioids. At least not for anyone predisposed to enjoying opioids, of course. Going through opioid withdrawal is a horror I will wish on very few people. It has broken me before, and it has broken some of the strongest people I’ve ever known. I have never felt an incredible urge to steal from my own family to satisfy a sweet tooth, that’s for sure.

Advertising. Literally all of it.

That’s such a great idea that I’m sure anyone who did this would end up charged with some type of fraud, unfortunately

Pay off my debt, buy a modest home, go back to school, never work a shit job for minimum wage ever again.

But I don’t need anywhere near 20,000,000 dollars a year to do that.

After some large donations to communist organizations, I’d put the remaining few million per year into buying commercial slots on every major TV network in the US. Then I’d create Jury Nullification PSAs and blast them over the airways continuously until the message sinks in universally that juries are under no obligation at all to respect the laws currently grinding marginalized people into dust.

Hexbear is literally the only place on the entirety of the internet where I can be vulnerable in my posts without worry it’s going to be used in harassment against me by some reactionary freak.

r/chapotraphouse was one of the most accepting and inclusive subreddits of all time on reddit when it came to not punching down, and Hexbear is orders of magnitude better than even that.

I think it’s most to do with exactly how much wealth a person was born into.

Someone who is constantly on the verge of being homeless, possibly even starving, will very soon get desperate enough to do things they aren’t proud of to survive.

On the other hand, someone born into immense wealth will have very little understanding of people who are struggling. That’ll make it very hard for them to empathize. And with all that power, their sheer indifference will have them crushing the poor under their boots like ants. This is highly exacerbated by the fact that it is in their best interest to support policy that transfers wealth upwards.

I like that North Korea has turned the Truman Show into a real thing all for the sake of western tourists. It takes a serious dedication to the art of theater and acting to transform an entire country of 26 million people into an endless and infinitely deep stage production. They’ve built full skyscrapers just as back drops for their sets. They painstakingly carved and painted millions upon millions of wooden props to resemble food items such as fruit, vegetables, and grains to place in store sets ubiquitously since real food no longer exists there. The wide assortment of actors walking the streets and pretending to go to work and do their jobs, each of them with their own unique backstory handcrafted to resemble the life of a real person. The fact that they’ve maintained the illusions of functioning trains by using clever line of sight techniques to hide the dozens of stage crew that need to push the cars along the tracks.

This is a very impressive accomplishment once you consider 90% of the country is currently being held in concentration camps for disrespecting the Kim dynasty by not maintaining the same haircut as their supreme leader. That the remaining 10 percent can put on this kind of show is spectacular without any kind of monetary compensation or even food. Everyone there is starving to death, but they’ve managed to hide such inadequacies through industrious makeup and lighting techniques. The country’s dedication is so intense even that these actors are allowed to have their own haircuts so as to not hurt immersion.

I would pirate even if it were stealing. In fact, if a company lost real money every time I pirated something, I would make an effort to pirate more often.

Run around dressed as a bat beating people to a vegetative state

Batman’s no kill policy is definitely not for any kind of moral objection to taking lives, that’s for sure. He brutalizes normal ass people with extreme excessive force on the regular. There’s no chance that none of these people succumb to their injuries soon after. It’s probably just to make himself feel better about it, a cope that allows him to justify it all by saying he didn’t necessarily inflict mortal wounds on purpose.

Youtube’s use of A/B testing is very smart in that it’s actually nothing about testing user response and all about limiting the number of people they piss off at once with their god awful changes.

The day I can’t block ads on the internet is the day I stop using the internet.