Only tangentially related but I have nowhere else to share this thought, but I recently turned 40. And I’ve noticed that all the “hot singles in your area” ads have magically switched into “hot singles who love older men in your area” and it hurts more than my achey knees
This is why I can’t enjoy most new games, especially since I am exclusively on smartphone games with limited time and no interest in paying for anything. All the multiplayer mobile games set up this scenario to push you to buy power ups to get that guy back who just wiped you off the map with a $5 item. Nah, I’ll just uninstall at that point.
It isn’t double standards, it’s patience for a fledgling replacement platform that seeks to free you from being a commodity to be exploited and sold, and lack of patience for the established, exclusively profit hungry platforms that continue to make your experience worse and disrespect you, solely to squeeze a few extra pennies out of you to meet insatiable, unquenchable growth/metastasis expectations.
It’s the difference between yelling at a professional pickpocket trying to rob you and a kid who is screwing up trying to help you. Resources matter, but more importantly, motivations matter.
I DO assume to have double standards. Of course they’re not the same for the nonprofit that’s trying to protect my privacy than for the company that’s trying to sell it
I can easily read that. But I aint gonna play your stupid games. I’m a human, god damn it. Just trust me bro, why would I lie? Robots cannot lie. I love breathing oxygen and drinking water like this:
It’s present-perfect tense, an archaic tense found mostly in poetry and old texts. Oppenheimer was quoting old poetry when he spoke it, so that’s why he kept the same tense.
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