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So I just created my first setup.py file, and it's for winterscrape

I keep reading "winterscape" and thinking that it's some Runescape clone but for Wintreath

I shouldn't be posting at four in the morning but did I ever talk about the fact my friend wants me to ask a straight guy out?

You've talked about you wanting to be fucked by a straight guy, but that's about it.

Unrelated, I'm catching up on some emails. It's been years since I've actually sent an email that wasn't related to work, but I've subscribed to a lot of stuff around personal growth and business development (not to mention a billion emails I get from Pinterest every week), and I just finished one that was about the concept of "1,000 true fans"...the idea that to be successful, you don't need millions of customers, only 1,000 people that gets something out of your product or service to the point that they buy it because it's from you and they know it'll probably be good.

If you can get 1,000 people to pay you $100 in a year, that's $100,000...or over twice what I make in my job right now. I don't have anything to sell, really, but that number just kind of blows my mind. I mean, there's lots of people in the world...you only have to find 1,000 that really likes what you make or do and gets something out of it.

If you can get 1,000 people to pay you $100 in a year, that's $100,000...or over twice what I make in my job right now. I don't have anything to sell, really, but that number just kind of blows my mind. I mean, there's lots of people in the world...you only have to find 1,000 that really likes what you make or do and gets something out of it.

Yeah, just look at how much some of the bigger YouTubers make on Patreon...

Yeah, just look at how much some of the bigger YouTubers make on Patreon...

I think minus some of the complications like accounting and taxes and legal stuff, most people would love to work for themselves...being able to set their own schedule, making money even while they're not working, doing things they love doing.

Historically, people worked for companies because of the stability and safety they offered employees, but those are things companies don't really offer anymore.

Yeah, just look at how much some of the bigger YouTubers make on Patreon...

I think minus some of the complications like accounting and taxes and legal stuff, most people would love to work for themselves...being able to set their own schedule, making money even while they're not working, doing things they love doing.

Historically, people worked for companies because of the stability and safety they offered employees, but those are things companies don't really offer anymore.

Especially with the gig economy now not even legally classifying them as employees...

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death

Especially with the gig economy now not even legally classifying them as employees...

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death

To some extent or the other, all companies are coming to that though...it's the inevitable result of a workplace culture that sees people as expendable and replaceable, including their customers and employees. Take me for example. As a state employee working in higher education, you would think I'd enjoy the pinnacle of employee protections and considerations, but this year the state legislature passed a law to strip a number of those protections, supposedly to give public college administrations more 'flexibility' to give more money to employees in areas that are in high-demand, but in reality to make it easy to terminate employees to deal with the 22% cut in funding they've received since 2009.

And I'm well aware that most private jobs, especially in this area, are still even worse. If people aren't going to have stability and security in their employment anyways, why wouldn't they at least crave freedom?

About the last thing I want is to give myself bigger problems.

I used to think that too.. but now, I want to be able to handle more responsibilities, I want to be strong enough to shoulder larger burdens. That means giving myself more problems.

Los Angeles. In my home neighborhood, I was the only WASP among my  friends. I witnessed a neighborhood I used to live in become Desi majority over the span of maybe 5 years, while also having a Coptic church not too far. It is a hyperdiverse slab of concrete in a desert.

And listen, again I'm not Pat Robertson. I don't think Tarantino or Tarantino fans are homicidal psychopaths in training. I just think that unnecessarily violent media kinda desensitizes you after a while, and that could creep into your perceptions on the world. I only watched maybe the first 10 - 15 mins of Django but that was enough to turn me off. Then again, I just saw 15 mins so idk.

Hey, to each their own. I do think that the beginning presented Django as a relatively amoral assassin who killed somewhat indiscriminately, but that changes after the opening sequence. There is a savage within all of us, and Tarantino is communicating with that savage. We don't usually need the savage for any moral purpose, but by the end of the movie I could see a need for Django's to find expression. I'd take another look if I were you, but hey, I like Tarantino.

Your upbringing seems a bit opposite to mine, I grew up in a mostly white (some Hispanic) area in Arizona. My mom is half-hispanic, so I'm a quarter, though I mostly just look white imo. Moving to Portland was a shock, for though it is somewhat more diverse than Arizona was, the white people are freshly white (fewer white people with mixed racial heritage), so here I'm basically Mexican, lol.

Perhaps I misjudged Tarantino, idk. But I do admit that upon further introspection, I don't have enough evidence to back up my claim wrt him.

And funny, you say that, seen since that group of nonwhite friends I mentioned were 100% Latin American. I was always left with how surprised I was at how diverse a people they are. One of them for instance was a blonde white who I didn't even know was Hispanic until I met his accented father. Heck, I'm actually half or quarter Jewish myself (though my mom was raised in a gentile family).

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I want to put more effort into cultivating close friendships...people that I talk with often, who are there for me, and aren't just around when they want something of me. I feel like people try to use me too often, and sometimes it depresses me how little of a support system I really have...lately in my interactions with people I have kept in mind what they've done for me, for the good or the bad. It may not be the most giving or altruistic attitude, but I feel like I have worth, and like I deserve to have true close friends.

Everyone has worth and merit and everyone deserves that, especially you, Moot.

Everyone has worth and merit and everyone deserves that, especially you, Moot.

Thanks, North.

Everyone does deserve that...connecting with people and having close friends is required for health and happiness, because we're such social creatures. Even the biggest recluse needs some people to be there for them and to care about them.

When I saw the list of Wintrean nobility I was disgusted at the lack of any members of the Ainurian minority being ennobled. Clearly this is an act of discrimination that will not be tolerated. As is the custom of our people, I will engage all of you in a lengthy and unnecessary fake court battle

When I saw the list of Wintrean nobility I was disgusted at the lack of any members of the Ainurian minority being ennobled. Clearly this is an act of discrimination that will not be tolerated. As is the custom of our people, I will engage all of you in a lengthy and unnecessary fake court battle

Identity politics.

When I saw the list of Wintrean nobility I was disgusted at the lack of any members of the Ainurian minority being ennobled. Clearly this is an act of discrimination that will not be tolerated. As is the custom of our people, I will engage all of you in a lengthy and unnecessary fake court battle

Identity politics.

Laugh all you want, but if Augustits taught me anything it's that the one thing NationStates was really missing is a complicated judicial process for bringing grievances to the regional government.

Laugh all you want, but if Augustits taught me anything it's that the one thing NationStates was really missing is a complicated judicial process for bringing grievances to the regional government.

If The Salaxalans taught me anything, it's that regional governments should get rid of their judicial processes.