I hadn't heard of that one! But, I hope it at least wasn't a home appliance that did it. ^.^;;

As for the rest, we really do have a lot of new tech that could help people, if people wanted to help people. Somehow, any and all social supports are still considered 'bad' by so many people. ;.;

I haven't! But I remember seeing a trailer for it, and it looked interesting!

I'm happy this is an exaggeration and unhappy it's MERELY an exaggeration and is actually technically possible now. And even then, what it's an exaggeration of would have been cartoonishly bad decades ago. o.o;;

Folks aren't kidding with that boiling frog stuff, huh?

These days it's all anime stuff, and the books are isekai lit RPG.

True, true! XD

Look on the bright side, I saw someone today being accused of being an LLM AI —because they use emdashes!

LOL It's not like they're fake people, you can message them on FA and DA if you dare. :P

I'm still goin, for sure. It just really hurts twenty years out from college and still nothing.

Good luck getting disability. I got mine reluctantly, to "prove them wrong" by being turned down. So, that didn't work out...

The suspiciously wealthy furry meme isn't meant to target all furries, just the randos who come out of nowhere and drop thousands on friends and charities like it's nothing. It's not really supposed to be negative, either. Just funny in an "Anyone can be a furry!" way.

I wonder what's divisive about you?

I've had a few folks block me before. It always feels pretty bad.

I got a mastodon for that. It makes content warning clickthroughs really easy.

I still end up afraid to post most things anyways, though.

Ahh geez, I was dealing with some of that last night. It really sucks to go to all the trouble of going through school and college only to find out you're disabled and no job you get will keep you longer than a month or so. ^.^;;

I always presumed they were out of my league/price range I guess.

But also there's another artist with super low prices for whole sequences or comic pages, but a very basic flat style.

The other awkward thing is when I actually have money, and I feel bad for choosing any particular artist over all the other ones. ^.^;;

I don't know if I can afford an art this month but I found out last night that an artist I always liked has weirdly low prices and an empty comission queue. o.o;;

Here's a converse though. If you hire me, I will absolutely use some of the money pay you (and others) to make art! XD

I think it's recursive. ^.^;;

We sure did take over, though. First ourselves, then everyone else. We weren't even trying to! XD

This also reminds me of that old meme that's just a 'heirarchy' of different fandoms with tiers of who makes fun of who inside that fandom, but at the bottom of the chart all the fandoms unify to make fun of furries... but then the chart continues, with sfw furries making fun of nsfw furries. ^.^;;

Yeah, it's really easy for folks to forget how recently sodomy was a crime, or that in some places, it still is.