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On one hand, they're doing their thing independently of you and they can engage in antics that be endearing, but can also be infuriating.

So that's another autonomous being at home.

On the other hand, cats don't have the issues (or at least not at the same scale) as weird roommates. No issues over unpaid rent. Less likely to rob you. Isn't some weirdo who just likes touching feet without consent.

Cats can engage in shenanigans, break your things, eat your food and lick your nipples for some reason, but the scales and the stakes are much lower, plus, cats aren't getting off to their weird fetishes.

Cats? Good.

Looks at Star Wars
Looks at Star Trek

...You know what, I'm perfectly fine with Babylon 5 having ~three shows and two games.

The more you let capital make of a thing, the more likely are you to end with some with a bunch of horribly mutated skinwalkers. They break your heart, since they look like The Thing You Love, but entirely miss the point of original and have nothing what made it good.

...inexplicably, there's also a bunch of people lining up, perfectly happy, to hug the mutant skinwalker and proclaim it to be to great,

I don't like driving. I don't drive. My loicense had gone unrenewed for two years before 2023.

Thus, I'm not that interested in cars.

But just slap EV in front and I'm immediately interested. Why??? Do I just want a slice of the future?

Look at the AMC Wolf¹. I don't need a pickup truck - the heaviest thing I move is me. To utilize it fully, I'd have to be driving to remote places via unpaved roads, a. k. a. places without indoor plumbing or internet a. k. a. places I don't really want to be at.

But some Commiefornians make an electric Hillux and I experience neuron activation. Wtf.

1. are boy @Bezdarbor probably has some stuff to say about the words used in the video. Me, I just think the whole "this is a revolution where electric vehicles and adventure intertwine" pablum is meant for people who need recorded petrol engine audio to make them drive an EV.

any fiction writer, character artist, designer. any researcher or journalist, and all the kindest friends who find the question's answer before you even have time to search yourself

we've all googled something one fucking time and had your targeted ads think you a person entirely new

i have researched hair types that are not my own, i have looked up image references of vitiligo, i buy femme and masc clothes. i research countries i do not live in and businesses i would never patronize.

yet the interface i use to search is a business funded largely by selling ads and associated data, however indirectly

a search engine's priorities laying in profit is bad, we all know this. but it's also insidious thinking, this assumption that knowledge only exists to build a data profile on a user.

i live in objection to the capitalist assumption that one would only ever seek knowledge self-applicable. that first and foremost, the reason to look up information is to, yourself, capitalize on it.

i don't want ads to represent a false me, a version built from simply wanting to understand.

i don't want ads to represent me at all.

...and if i see one more goddamn Hims/Hers ad because google can't decide if i'm a guy or a girl, i'm going to Secret Third Thing

Is YouTube doing psuh recommends on phone

of old videos

of the channel I just subscribed to.

Oh, thanks, I have an issue of perceiving linnear time, I'm baby who believes that the YouTuber never existed before I watched their first video. You have to remind me that they made works before I discovered them, thabk you.