shuzuko

Take a joke, friend. I'm playing around.

Ok, I did actually miss that line about no charitable donations.

But I'm going to be annoying and argue that because of the gratification that funding artists would give me, it is actually a fully selfish endeavor and as such fulfills the requirements ;)

I could do it easy peasy

It's called supporting the arts. I'd just set up artist funds all over the country so that artists - visual artists, musical artists, theatrical artists, circus artists, writers, you name it - could learn, create, and share their work without struggling to get by.

But then, I'm a human and not a capitalist lizard masquerading as human, so art actually means something to me.

Holy shit I definitely thought she was late 40s, I can't believe she's younger than me

This was the one. Every once in a while my brain just says "hey, remember that fucked up story where the kids had a smart room that became whatever they wanted and it spoiled them to the point they murdered their parents with lions? Wasn't that fucked up? Let's think about how fucked up it was for a while!"

It was 7th grade for me, but still, I can't believe we read that as kids.

Holy balls, I didn't even zoom in to look at the prongs on that serpent ring. That's the kind of design made by someone who only ever designs shit and never has to work on the physical product. It looks cool but no one will ever bother to attempt to recreate that if they need to do maintenance. Plus I could easily see the little circles just, bending off and OOP, there goes the stone. There's a reason prongs are designed the way they are.

Fucking design nerds 🙄 and I say that as someone with more design experience than practical experience - but at least I fucking listen to actual bench jewelers when I do my CAD work.

Jfc

So, my husband is a jeweler. We recently started our own business (mostly repairs right now). These things are largely poorly designed and way overpriced for what they are. Plus, there's a lot of bullshit like "14k black gold", which isn't a thing. It's possibly 14k white or yellow gold with black rhodium plating, which will wear off in about 2 years and need replating. And there's one with a 1.5ish carat diamond and a few melee marquis, with no other detailing or anything particularly interesting other than the "14k black gold" bullshit, and they're trying to sell it for over $10,000 usd. Fucking LOL. This site is trash.

Oh, you've got a carb nibbling goblin, too? If we accidentally forget to put away the bagels, the bread, the muffins, the cookies, the cake, the insert whatever carb treat here... We will inevitably wake up to find tiny holes chewed out of the bag or box and shredded crumbs everywhere, including stuck to the little asshole's fur.

Because it's only fraud if a normal person makes money from it, duh 🤪

February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august

Fellow Ohioan spotted?

February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august

Fellow Ohioan spotted?

Because the people with enough money to overstock themselves on toilet paper would have been embarrassed to be seen in a Dollar General because it's "beneath them", and the people who are willing to go to DG don't have enough money to stock up.