Orcocracy

Yes, you might want to speak to a psychologist or psychotherapist before you do something that you may later come to regret.

And the Oscar for best foreign actor goes to

Please take this as friendly advice: you appear to be describing a dangerous view of social relationships and this could get you in some potentially very serious trouble with the people around you. Please, do not treat your relationships with other people as transactional.

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

No it wouldn't become subject to the same law. A new and different law would be required. But that's wildly hypothetical, given the differences between an open distributed system and a massive private corporation.

Also, human behaviour and social interactions are seldom quite so transactional.

I really don't understand the people who (on an open source social media platform of all places!) rush to defend Meta/Facebook on bill C-18. Any action taken against Facebook's power in society, no matter how flawed, is inherently good.

I haven't seen the show, but its a bit of a truism in the profession that the actor who has the most fun with their role is the one who plays the villain.

You sent 16,000 emails, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Yes and no. The ye in "ye olde shoppe" was "the" with the "thorn" character which looks kinda like a y if you write it fancy. The ye in "Hear ye, hear ye" was actually said as ye and was the second person plural.

Centuries ago English used to have "ye" for the second person plural pronoun, but I guess Anglo culture is fundamentally individualistic and makes even talking about stuff collectively an awkward experience.

How wide is the rim of the cup? How heavy is the ball? How viscous is the air the ball flies through? What counts as "doing it" or "not doing it" in any given system either involves an arbitrary line or error-bars of some sort. There's no harm in having a setting to move that line slightly or to make those error-bars wider. Or must we bow to an auteur's artistic vision (or a community's bigotry) about these things? Perhaps if the artistic point of the thing is to make people suffer in some way, but otherwise?

The recommendations are slightly more colourful in the femme thread, but overall they're both quite drab and conservative. But maybe being conservative is the point of a starter guide I guess.