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“My Boomer rang. Told him to get tossed.”

“painful but you get to continue living”

Why bother?

Don’t kiss it.

Alien.

Oh, wait…

I want a job in porn. I’m already (un)dressed for it.

The more I learn about the shitty shady things this admin has been up to, the more ashamed of being an American I get - just when I thought I couldn’t get more ashamed.

Politicians being politicians. Tell me… what’s “changed”?

Just building up the kid’s imagination by helping him “fly.”

Donald Trump and the Republicans are insisting the economy is great and unhappy Americans are deluded. Just like Democrats under Joe Biden, they’re lying to themselves and everyone else — and will eventually pay the price.

Not until the rest of us have paid way more than they EVER will.

A religion is trying to control you.

For those tired of being nickel & dimed, you can hop the wall here.

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On second thought, you just go ahead telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. It’s pointless to argue with self-rghteousness because it doesn’t know how to be honest with itself - let alone anybody else.

I think maybe you’re… ahem …selling yourself short. It might be more difficult in the current economic environment, but I suspect there are enough people who’d be willing to pay for high-quality acting even when the plain text version is free. It’s the immersion in the fantasy that makes it worth it to them. How do you think OF does so well when there’s so much readily accessible free porn out there? Do it right, market it properly (and cost-effectively), and even in this economy (or maybe even because of it) people will still pay to experience their fantasies (or at least escape reality). You just need to commit to doing it well to make it worth them paying for.

ETA: you could also encourage the purchasing of your recordings by including extra content, and/or publishing new stories as an “intro chapter” to get them hooked, and then continuing the adventures in the recordings. The conversion rate would be pretty low, but you’d probably still make more than with your advertising path - which you could still go to by releasing the extra material after some semi-lengthy “exclusivity period.”

Violence begets violence & usually just results in mutually assured destruction if the overall balance of strengths is relatively similar (they have money, military, & now hired thugs, we mostly just have numbers and decentralization).

I recommend subterfuge and sabotage instead - particularly by those programming & managing all the computers that make everything happen nowadays.

…I’m very religious but not at all superstitious…

Cognitive dissonance on full display.

a.k.a. “business as usual” when the government that’s supposed to be policing such behavior had become primarily focused upon doing it themselves.

Those who make for the best leaders very rarely want to be leaders.

If I knew about that beforehand, I’d probably be much less likely turn it on to begin with. If I learned the hard way, I’d likely be dissuaded from ever trying it again & just get one of those other apps. Conversely, the fact that my current phone boots much faster than older ones did makes it not really as off-putting an issue at it once was. It sounds like a major PITA until you realize that.

What happens when it’s no longer profitable enough to make manufacturing film worthwhile? In recent years LOTS of companies have been moving towards focusing strictly on their most profitable items only - dropping things that were still profitable, but not enough to please their major shareholders who only care about profits being as high as they possibly can be.