That was how I pronounced it for years after reading it.

Yep, but I read it years before I heard it in context. And it took me an embarrassing amount of time to get it right. I still fuck it up occasionally. The same with genre.

Drizzt Do’Urden!

It so they can profile you and adjust their pricing depending on how wealthy you are and if you really need the product. Dynamic pricing is coming and it’s going to be brutal. They’re not collecting these enormous datasets on every household for marketing only.

Or the government sets up an age verification service that doesn’t store logs and only reports numbers in aggregate. The restricted site sends you and a unique id off to the government service, you verify there and it hands back the id & a yes/no token to the site.

The government already has nearly all the tools to make this happen. They already have id verification services to use & web front ends to copy. Just build the public API and insist restricted sites use it.

Until intelligent life evolved, the universe itself had no idea it existed, intelligent life gives it momentary glimpses of itself. You are a vessel for giving the universe a brief glimpse of experience. Use your time to make the experiences the universe sees as interesting and joyous as possible. This means treating others and yourself with love. That’s basically my philosophy/spirituality. Personifying the universe as a whole.

RIP lifetime membership buyers.

Alcohol and guns is such a classic mix though.

Fucken straight to the heart man.

Jokes be subjective my man. What’s funny to you is not to me and vice versa. So nonsense jokes exist, but you don’t find them funny, doesn’t mean it’s not a joke, or funny to some. Whole web comics have been built on the premise. look up the white ninja. I find him hilarious.