I occasionally post reviews/reactions here in this community. It’s a nice way to get my thoughts out and also engage with others.

At this point I feel as invested as Calvin in the saga of the beanie motor.

Nothing wrong with wanting to be a housewife.

Also, most people find their career ambition later into adulthood. Not sure your age but allow yourself the freedom to have different wants in the future.

Meanwhile people out here hosting websites on disposable vapes.

Well, it’s a graph showing the bottom 50% of OF accounts. The horizontal axis is the monthly earnings in USD, and the vertical axis shows the frequency of people earning earning that amount.

Context is that it is a sampling of OnlyFans accounts.

You can see that the median OF creator is earning under $200 /month and the modal creator is earning $0 per month.

Also, it’s a huge myth (marketing lie) that the average OF model is making any appreciable money.

Support for the Iranian people against a regime they’ve been trying to get rid of for decades.

That’s been a problem with the platform for a couple years. It goes something like this: Video hosting is expensive, and moderating video is complicated. So most instances don’t allow open registration and posting.

When you have a video platform without anyone allowed to post videos… Well, it’s not gonna be good.

The only videos that could get posted were from people with an established audience on another platform like YouTube, or else someone passionate enough to run their own server (which requires lots of time, money, and technical know-how).

For a creator who already has an audience, there is absolutely no incentive to jump to federation. It’s more effort for a smaller audience on a less reliable platform. So of course it’s all Veronica explains Linux because that is the only kind of creator who would have an ideological interest of doing it despite the disincentives.

Or else it’s not a knowledgeable and capable creator, but someone with just a lot of time, money, and passion. Do you read a lot of self-published books? Not too many Pulitzers in there. There is a reason you can count on one hand the number of self produced films that are actually good.

Creativity requires openness and freedom. Peertube has been (ironically) one of the most closed video platforms on the internet. For new creators, it’s been impossible to get on and just experiment. That means no innovation, which translates to no good content.

From a cursory look, that seems to be changing. There are now a few instances like that appear to be stable and have open, moderated registration. If that continues, we will begin to see more variety of quality content.

I gotta admit, PeerTube is really beginning to stabilize into a platform I’d consider using. Imma have to take another look when I have to time.

They have to be reflective lenses, dummy.

If this ever happens to you, it’s important to dispute the charge immediately.

I started fighting it probably 6-8 months ago. At that time, it was outside the window that it could be disputed. Check with your credit card. It usually has to be disputed in 30-60 days. Given that it was purchased well in advance of the show and we waited to see if it would be rescheduled, it was outside the window.

Here’s a great mini-scam inside the big scam:

I buy a ticket as a gift to my wife. Only the ticket holder can use the ticket. So I transfer the ticket (several hundred dollars) to my wife’s account.

The concert is canceled.

They call it “delayed,” although that was over a year ago. I can’t apply for a refund because I am no longer the ticket holder. She cannot apply for a refund because they can only refund it back to the original purchaser. Transfer is locked on delayed shows.

“Robbing them blind” is right.

It’s hard to believe it’s so low. I’d have assumed it was much higher.

I swear one of those has a “G” on it. Grandduke of Spimonds?

Can’t they just pay me in NFTs?

Linking to my recent review of Anx Reader.

Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck

If there is a long US war or occupation, that would surely be a disaster for the Iranian people. But Iran already has many of the core mechanisms of democratic government. It’s not Afghanistan, it’s not even Iraq.

People vote for leadership. There has just been the “revolutionary” guard that operates the shadow government with the real power. The religious fundamentalist government has had the right to choose the candidates, but people really do vote from among those choices.

If the people can succeed in transferring military power to the elected government, then there is a real chance for permanent and stable change. The people are educated, the economy is sophisticated and diverse, and there are functioning institutions.

And to cover up their atrocities. We still don’t know if they killed 10,000 protestors or 36,000.

For the past 2 months, Iran has switched to a North-Korean model of information control.

The internet is still on total government blackout. Voice and video messaging is near impossible. Calling into and out of Iran is near-impossible.

This means that literally every single image, message, video, description, report, etc. that comes out of Iran is either government propaganda or secretly smuggled out at great personal risk. Western media has not yet caught on to the implications of this reality.