After working in tech, I do not trust them anywhere near my neurons. I do not need sponsored dreams, ransomware making me forget my kids until I pay a hacker, rolling release schedules of stuff in my head, or getting ddossed, because in meat terms that's a siezure. No thank you. I have seen the quality of code that is the norm.

Nah, I'll let the kids have their toys and just go quietly reflect on being a fossil of a bygone era who got to see the science fiction become science reality at the tail end of my primitive life. Seems like a pretty dope ride, all things considered.

I am not willing to play ball with unremovable direct human interfacing or any form of two way interfacing with cognition. Some other generation perhaps, but I am not interested and never will be.

The fine money of course

They are not entitled to but they are going to. Fandoms do crazy stuff, and if you are even tangentially connected then you are subject to it. If you take it in stride, it can actually be a pretty beneficial annoyance. If you push back they will make your life awful, but they are going to show up either way.

Don’t but a movie house if you don’t want to deal with movie house stuff. This is like buying the cheap house next to the airport and then complaining about noise. You knew what you were getting into.

I would argue that any compulsory repetition will become habit forming eventually, because life wants to find harmony with its environment, and in any context of life aside from modern humans, whatever you encounter routinely is a factor that needs to be adapted to in order to survive. I do not think that dopamine is required for this to occur. Cognitive dissonance, bias, and reflex alone suggest your neurons really want to use what they know already instead of unlearning and re-learning, which is why rehabilitation of any poor conduct is difficult. If you learned self-destructive or outwardly harmful patterns, that is what your brain knows how to apply and it wants to work with what it has just like any other brain.

Does the GOP or DNC logo really look all that different from the Buffalo Bills one? If I point out people wearing face paint waving big foam fingers, am I talking about a football game or a political rally?

I used to install these for a living. Do not share the electric with other things or you risk shorting them if the motor in the garbage disposal stresses, such as if you drop a fork down the drain and it jams. You are much better off just plugging other stuff in elsewhere. Not every electrical source can or should be multipurpose, because fewer things will be affected if there is a complication on a closed circuit. Appliances will cause complication more often than any other thing you plug in, and you probably don’t want that to fry your laptop or stereo system, so they should really just get their own plug.

I legit thought this was a minecraft mod at first glance