I guess it would depend on how badly I need to use the bathroom… If it’s becoming an emergency situation then I’ll go pretty much anywhere.

Most people get way less picky once they’re legitimately afraid they’ll shit their pants

And??? And what??? I need closure on this anecdote dammit!!!

People had been complaining about the pens since my first day there lol all the pens I bought were gone after about a month and they all went back to complaining again. I think one of the managers supplied a single 10 pack of pens once the whole time I worked there. I just kept a box of my own in my car for me to use lol

I got a job once at this little video production company, and everyone was always trying to find pens. I’m pretty sure this one smart ass there was stealing them just because he thought it was funny that no one could ever find one…

Anyway, it was probably my second week on the job and I got pissed off because there were like 10 cups that were supposed to have pens in them at all times and I couldn’t find a single one, so I went to the grocery store across the street and bought like 3 boxes of pens and filled all the cups again with the warning that these were my pens that everyone was welcome to use but if they all went missing I would start keeping them locked in my car. Everyone seemed happy to have pens again.

I got hauled into the managers office 2 hours later and questioned as to why I spent my own money on office supplies, why I didn’t just requisition more pens, told never to do that again and handed a check for $11 for “stationary supplies”.

That was the last time I ever bought anything for anybody at work ever again lol

I hate to tell you, but even the shitty Choco Tacos were discontinued a few years ago

The Arby’s Triple Cheese Melt. I think they stopped making it by the late 90s. Every once in a while it would show up again randomly and go away again a few weeks later but I don’t think I’ve seen one since like 2005

The original Nintendo Entertainment System that I played with from the mid 80s to the early 90s came out almost 41 years ago now sonny 👴

Isn’t that what happens with all weeds though? If you chop them down they just grow back unless you actually pull them out of the ground by the roots or spray them with weedkiller

He’s not sleeping! He is steadfastly guarding the Kirkland’s Fancy Whole Cashews from invaders!

I’ve heard a few of these but I’m saving the rest to listen to later! What Darkthrone was doing a few albums ago is now called “Black N’ Roll” and it’s its own awesome genre now!

The last Ihsahn album was really good! It sounded like it was half Emperor half John Williams score lol! I just recently started listening to

Botanist which is a one man project where he makes atmospheric black metal using hammered dulcimers!

Just yesterday I was listening to this band Kaatayra from Brazil who use a lot of traditional folk instruments and it had kind of a zen vibe to it in parts.

I recently found a post black metal band from Japan called Asunojokei whose music sounds kind of like a black metal band playing anime theme songs lol

Dødheimsgard have been around forever but their last album Black Medium Current was VERY eclectic to the point of being almost psychedelic at times!

There are a ton more if you look around honestly

I’d say collectively the genre of black metal. In 2004 most black metal acts were still doing the same kind of lo-fi DIY “buzzsaw in a garbage can” style that had been popular throughout the 90s. You could find artists who were starting to get more creative with it, but you really had to look hard sometimes.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love old school black metal, but when that’s all there is it starts to all sound alike after awhile.

Now it seems like every time I hear a new black metal release people have really started pushing the genre WAY past a bunch of white guys in corpse paint singing about how depressed they are lol! Now there’s tons of interesting electronic bands, lots of crossover bands, lots of avant garde artistic stuff, lots of stuff from different countries all over the world all adding their own unique sounds… It’s just really refreshing to hear a genre that was notoriously strict become something so much bigger and better

I see you haven’t met very many vegans lol

Why would eggs make the cat close his eyes?

Last time my cat made that face she sneezed on me

They want to be able to make sure they’re stealing data from real people and also ensure that your real life offline can be destroyed at any time lol

It’s a nobel concept but it definitely doesn’t sound legal. You can’t just give away free copies of books that the authors are still getting royalties/payments for. You’re basically just stealing from the original author or their families at that point even if you’re not getting paid for it. You can’t just redistribute someone’s intellectual property without compensating them or having some kind of agreement. What your describing just sounds like a file torrent on a pirating site lol

Is someone going to want to invest in a new e-reader just to read books from your shop though?

It still doesn’t seem legal if the digital copies are of any books that aren’t public domain, unless you have some kind of licensing agreement with the publishers

I don’t know the exact laws or if they are different between different countries, but I don’t think it’s legal at all to just hand out free digital scans of copyrighted books or even to sell them for that matter. I could see doing that for books that are old enough to be public domain, but anything more current definitely sounds illegal to me.

Also I have no idea how you could “take back” a digital file from a customer. All they have to do is download the file to literally any device and you would never know or have any way to make them delete it.