Even the community kitchen I use has one of these…

Oh my bad. Damn though, that’s actually wild, I’m glad you got it fixed

Does it make sense? Yes Do I believe it? Yesn’t

It’s not testable so it just doesn’t matter to me and I don’t really care to make a choice about it being physical or not, I still experience the universe the same way regardless of how you interpret QM.

Authoritarian measures like this are not how you stop people protesting, this won’t lead to anything except further police violence being inflicted upon the best people in Victorian society.

I really hope Allan reconsiders, but I know she won’t…

Very similar thing happened to me actually, now I’m just living on an old abandoned bike I fixed up that no one will ever want to steal.

I’m sorry yours was taken, it’s a surprisingly painful thing to have your transport suddenly ripped away like that. Do you have a bike that you can use at the moment? I can probably help you get a new one if not, no guarantees of quality though.

Sometimes I just eat the cereal without milk

Giving me Round the Twist flashbacks

I’ve worked out my song writing process, which is helping deal with my rapidly declining mental state lol

It doesn’t.

I’m really against the expected gift giving and the commercialisation of it all. I don’t really want things so I’m not really keen on receiving gifts either, I honestly struggle to get excited about it.

I’m not keen on spending Christmas with my family because it’s basically “back in the closet” day, and it makes me want to die. If it’s Christmas without the grandparents it’s a lot better. That said I’ve gotten out of most of it this year, just a lunch and then back home to Naarm to put on a community dinner which I am legitimately looking forward to.

I’m not religious either so it also literally has no meaning to me.

Just remember to steal from the capitalists, not each other. I really don’t want to lose a third bike…

My point is that weebs are considered more acceptable than furries in almost every space, it’s not literal.

Everyone has a problem with furries because “it’s sexual” and the usual rebuttal is that not all of it is about sex, but I think this misses the point.

Basically every adult fandom has a sexual element, weebs are the fucking same and no one goes around calling all anime fans perverts. Sexuality is a natural human thing and they have a goddamn right to explore that through their medium. Get to know a furry, they’re just normal fucking people (pun not intended, I’m just Australian).

Beastiality is not a furry thing and should not be lumped into it. Fuck zoophiles.

There’s also a lot of people who will use the abstraction available in furry art/fandom to explore their identity and sexuality, it’s honestly a good space for helping people grow and understand themselves. I’ve known plenty of trans people who’ve only been able to find and accept their being trans through their fursonas. They’re valid as hell and I’ll defend them until I die.

You can make pencils with charcoal, paper bark trees are common here.

Also pirate radio, hard but not impossible to conceal its location if you’ve got a good portable system.

Not sure they were from the same author, but I had some as a kid. I remember them being pretty freaky, I committed cannibalism at least once…

While we’ve selectively bred a bunch of animals in horrific ways, sheep are a particularly fucked up case for me because their survival now depends on them being exploited and abused, they can’t shed their wool anymore.

I’m going to laugh so hard if Trump has an “apparent suicide” and at least one cop says it’s not suspicious, if they can do it to whistleblowers who risk their profits, surely this qualifies?

Not saying it’s likely, just that I absolutely will laugh, probably for days.

Joining any group your comfortable with, as others have said, is the #1.

One you can do from home is just start sending money to mutual aid requests you see on insta or wherever. Make it a weekly thing even if it’s just a couple of dollars. There are also plenty of groups that operate mainly online, though they tend to be harder to get into for security reasons.

And honestly, being generally nice to random people is underrated. Never doubt how much better you can make a stranger’s day by giving them a smile. Similarly, some of the best support I get is just from chatting with people, I’ve had so many crap days completely turned around because we had a seemingly meaningless conversation. I guess we’re social creatures after all, so it’s not too surprising.

If only that were possible, all my work was double checked by a senior and we had to validate all the theoretical stuff with a few million runs of simulated games, and then validated again by the testing team who tests the physical machines. It was painfully rigorous, which is why I only ever did the two machines…

I very very briefly worked as a mathematician for a company that assessed and then recommended slot machines for regulatory approval.

It is completely incomprehensible how anyone can work in that industry when all the regulations are to make sure companies are stealing the right amount of money from people. All I ever did there was mathematically prove that it was impossible to ever win. Gambling is obviously predatory on the face of it, but being involved directly in ensuring that process goes smoothly is about as in your face as it gets, and everyone there was just like “yeah this is cool and normal.”

Needless to say, I got out the instant I could. I only ever approved two actual machines and I’ll never stop feeling guilty about it. I don’t know how anyone who works in sports betting can live with themselves…

Yeah that’s what I was getting at, all we can do is guess. It’s pretty easy to realise it’s impossible to answer scientifically, anything that could have any impact on our universe must necessarily be part of it and so cannot tell us anything about what came before.