“Fundamental” is awfully subjective, though, isn’t it?

I bought a couple of sweaters online today, and the order form asked for a tip.

No.

Toasted whole grain bread, or a ciabatta roll if I have the money for it when shopping. Mayo and pepper to taste on each slice. Spicy brown mustard on one slice (or both, if you’re feeling saucy). Turkey/ham/moo meat as desired. Spinach on top, with a salted tomato slice on occasion.

This has been my go-to for years, and I can eat it just about every day without getting sick of it.

Eh, I get the cynicism, because it’s hard not to feel it myself. But if I can change, so can they 🤟

I didn’t choose to be born. I didn’t choose to be adopted into a dysfunctional family. I didn’t choose to be raised as a little bigot. I did choose to walk away when I grew up and started seeing how people like me and my family were hurting others. This goes far beyond mere opinion, and perhaps you ought to spend some time reasoning about why these things aren’t that important to you.

Edit to add a word.

Do you have any recommendations?

Use Affinity Publisher, Photo, and Designer instead. Looks like it’s USD $165 for a universal license at the moment. Very few of the more exclusive features Adobe provides are worth the cost of doing business with them. The only thing I missed at first is Photoshop’s timeline, but apps like Krita or Aseprite (if pixel art is your jam) have that covered.

Edit to add: one great feature of Affinity is that, if you have Publisher and at least one of the other apps, Publisher will unify the workflows of the others into the same screen. In other words, you can switch between Publisher, Designer, and Photo without minimizing or opening the other apps individually.

Art and design, regardless of medium, need not be gatekept by corporate goons to stuff greedy pockets.

Yeh, but Florida always looks bad

It’s him. He’s the joke.

Would “incognizant” fit the bill? Or, perhaps, the XY Problem?

Yes, so don’t be lookin’ at its quack

It very well may be the case! Apparently, there’s a desktop studio app, which might let me move things around. I guess I’ll have to decide whether to lug my PC downstairs or my amp upstairs…

Thanks!

If it makes you feel better, it seems like you’re not the only one who missed the thread indent 🤷‍♂️

snekerpimp was responding to FlyingSquid, not baldingpudenda.

Lots of great suggestions involving story craft and the like, so I’ll target the “religious hangups” bit with a couple non-fiction books:

• Sentience by Nicholas Humphrey (great to get a perspective on consciousness and sentience that isn’t marred with religious doctrine)

• Determined by Robert Sapolsky (a primatologist with a knack for getting you comfortable with the notion that we don’t have as free a will as religion tells us)

And just to include a bit of fiction:

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (about life as we know it, or maybe as we don’t)

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (deals with overwritten cultures. Also dragons.)

I think it’s not quite the case that people get more conservative as they age. It’s that policies and goals throughout society tend to get more progressive with time – as we learn more about our needs and those of others – while personal ideologies tend to crystallize with age. When one generation solves a problem, the next generation starts looking for new problems to tackle. The trouble is that we have to do that while dragging the previous generations, kicking and screaming, towards something more broadly beneficial to society because they think they’ve already got it all figured out. The evolution of our understanding of the world doesn’t end with our generation, no matter how much effort we put in. 🤷