You probably disagree with parking tickets too and yet you still pay them.

Stop using this moral purist bullshit to justify punishing underpaid workers by defending inadequate tipping, nobody else is buying into your self-deception.

My primary identity is temporarily embarrassed millionaire

cld go on TankieTube

Cool, it's just a program that manages game purchases and a game library on your computer.

Do you want me to send you a DM with all the spare game codes I have?

Do you have steam?

I know I have a small pile of game codes from bundles that I have bought for specific games, leaving other codes unredeemed that have piled up over time. I'm kinda picky with what games and especially what genres I like and I'm not really into the gaming scene much so idk anything about most of the unredeemed game codes. I also don't really understand if codes are region-locked or not because I've never traded codes (I'm not in the same country as you are.)

So I guess what I'm saying is that I have no idea if it will work, I assume it will but there's only one way to find out. I also have no idea whether the games are any good or if you'll like them but I can send you a list of what I have so you can pick over them or I can just hand all of them onto you if you like.

Tbh it doesn't seem like much of a gift to me because it feels like more of a hand-me-down than anything but... there might be something in there that you like and it might be nice to have a few new games for you to try out, even if they aren't the top-ranked AAA games. Who knows?

I made this edit recently and I find it kinda hilarious:

If you are interested in SciFi novels and gender theory you might find it funny too. I don't actually mean anything by it but the name is just too perfect not to take advantage of the opportunity it offers.

Unlimited Gendercide Upon the Cis World!!

There's one person who I came across on Tiktok who was faking. I don't know why she was faking or how much she was faking but she would use a green screen, she used her children as actors (one day her son has a bandaged up arm, the next day her daughter does, the next day her daughter has her head bandaged up etc.) and with the same sound effects being used. Some videos she reused the same sound effect of a bomb being dropped nearby and her children would act like they were scared and cling to her but it was a bad highschool play level of acting.

Was she just doing what she needed to survive and get her family to safety? Was she living somewhere like Syria and taking advantage of the wartorn setting to exaggerate her situation?

I don't know. I don't think I ever will. I decided to leave it be because I don't want to start a witchhunt. If she really is doing whatever it takes to keep her family alive and to get them to safety, can I blame her for that? Would I do anything different if i were in her shoes or would I sit patiently in silence as the bombs rain down on my head and as I watch my children starving, comfortable in the knowledge that we will all die while my moral purity remains safe?

It's a situation where the conditions do not permit honour to flourish and so people are going to be dishonourable. I can't fault someone for being a product of their material conditions and at the same time claim to be a materialist without becoming the most reprehensible hypocrite. And in a worst case scenario, if I spoke up about this publicly and identified the person - what effect does it have? Do people feel scorned because they were duped? Do they stop donating to Gazans completely? Do people start falsely accusing others who "seem" like they are faking it and are unworthy?

Of course there are people who would exploit any opportunity to attack Arabs and especially Palestinians to paint them as unworthy and disreputable because that's exactly what they want the world to believe so that the genocide can continue, unbothered by negative public opinion.

I'm not about to hand my enemies ammunition like that, even if it means staying quiet and tolerating someone who is sketchy. There is no comparison between her and someone who is utterly monstrous such as Netanyahu; I'll save my scorn for Israel because at least I know that is always a worthy target.

I swear to you that when Gofund Mai started, I felt that something detracted from my dignity.

That's one way to look at it. I'm not going to tell you how you should feel.

But what I would like you to consider is what it feels like for people like me (what a ridiculous thing to say, right?) I can't stop this genocide. I sit by and watch as my government supports the Israeli government's every action. I sit by and watch as Israel continues to inflict the most brutal of injustices every day. I feel hopeless and demoralised by this, but moreover I feel completely powerless. There is no room for dignity for me under these conditions.

By making a GoFundMe you provide people like me with a meaningful way to do something about this situation, no matter how miniscule and insufficient it is. You provide me with an opportunity to reclaim some dignity in the face of constant and overwhelming indignation.

You have every right to feel how you need to about the GoFundMe but I want you to know that by asking for help you have given people the chance to reclaim some measure of their humanity by allowing them the opportunity to do something in a situation where they too feel helpless.

Why am I telling you all of this?

Because I want you to know that you aren't responsible for the woman I described above. At the very least, she is engaging in some degree of dishonesty. If she is diverting money away from Palestinians who genuinely need financial support then I'm bitterly disappointed in her for that. But I'll never know the truth for her situation. And yeah, there's probably some miniscule percentage of Palestinians who have escaped this horrific situation and they have enough money from donations to buy themselves a nice gaming PC or a big TV. Would I prefer that the money going to the people who are still trapped under the boot of Israel?

Of course.

But do I really think that a Palestinian who has managed to escape and maybe afford some small degree of luxury should live in penury? Does a big TV or a new iPhone even begin to replace what they have lost and all of the things they have been deprived of?

Absolutely not.

If I had it my way, Palestinians would be free and each of them would enjoy these small luxuries because I can't take away the deprivation and the immense suffering they have lived through but if it's possible to make the next part of their lives better then I would support this wholeheartedly. I just wish I was rich enough to make that the reality.

Your people deserve far more than I will ever be able to give, but I give what I can. And I give with the hopes that it will afford your people the opportunity to salvage some measure of dignity, so you are able to have some amount of privacy, some of the barest basic comforts, so you might be able to make wudu instead of tayammum, so you don't have to bear the worst of indignities of seeing your loved ones starve to death. With the hopes that it will afford you this.

I can't ask for anything from a Palestinian living under these circumstances but the last thing I want is for donations from people like myself to cause more suffering than you are already enduring. I donate without any expectation, only hope. May these donations find some way to help you reclaim your dignity in the same way that they have helped me to reclaim some degree of humanity. May you and your people live under conditions that allow for your dignity to become whole again.

Stay safe, brother. We are with you.

Just think of the benefits you could reap by always having access to your workplace by Neuralink!

That brilliant idea you have in the middle of the night? Straight into a document on your workplace computer, without even needing to turn on a light.

On holidays and you wanted to quickly check in on the progress of that big project? No worries, just tap into your work email account wirelessly while you enjoy the tropical beach as you relax!

Emergency in the office? You will now get an immediate notification, any hour of the day and any day of the week, so you can address the problem straight away instead of waiting until 9am Monday morning and being caught completely unawares!

Mark my words, this is the next big thing. The divide between the "haves" and the "have-nots" will be about who has a Neuralink implant. No employer will choose to hire a non-Neura over the coming Neuralink master race!

There needs to be an exception made for 斗地主

I'm not a design person but I hear that Krita is superior free open-source alternative to Gimp.

Idk more than that honestly. I'd just recommend that before you build your skill tree out in one particular design/editing oriented program and you end up getting locked into one tool, make sure that you are very cognisant of what you're locking yourself into first.

Reskilling into a different tool isn't impossible but it can be prohibitively difficult due to a sort of sunk-cost fallacy with regards to time invested; why are you going to drop a solid 10-50 hours into learning a new tool when you can spend 20 minutes with your "native" tool to achieve the same outcome, especially when we're talking about a hobby endeavour and not a professional one?