#it becomes a liability

[comatosecartesian]

If something you own can be remotely disabled - intentionally or not - by a third party, you don’t own it, you’re renting it.

Maybe rent is free!

But someday the person on the other end of that equation is going to either a) up your rent to increase profits, b) sell to someone who will up your rent to increase profits or c) go out of business and take your access with them. This is a feature, not a bug, of the endless-growth model. “Internet activated” means “remote kill switch”.

Welcome to the future, where you don’t own anything and the stuff you rent stops working once your phone has no signal.

[t0bey]

origin story of Florian’s carefree whimsy

[blondie-drawings]

captain, there's a problem in engineering. no wait sorry, there's a problem with the engineer (silly text post version!🌻)

[momojedi]

Crosshair being legitimately the baby brother of the Batch always makes me giggle, my man is just peak youngest sibling behaviour.

[yb-cringe]

theres something soo interesting abt the fact foolish has, using bad’s metaphor, added jaiden to his List of people that can’t be crossed. i wonder if he was checking for that. to see like oh. you guys are friends now? lets see abt that.

[alfairy]

[chronicyappper]

people who unironically say film Erik was right scare me like no??? no he wasn't. I can somewhat understand arguments for 97 Erik but film Erik was actually just stupid

[awordbroken]

vision of an alternate-genre universe where masters having human favorites is normal enough that the bazaar contains multiple semi-secret nicely furnished prison cells for when one master wants to put pressure on another during business negotiations by kidnapping its fave, but doesn't want to ruin relations TOO much by treating them too poorly. some of them are in there so often the neddies show up at their door and they're just like sigh. that time again already? fine, fine, let me grab my overnight bag.

[relentlessgrief]

i’ll need to add a companion verse for connor because it’s come up multiple times

short summary of that verse:

connor works with the harpers, knows jaheira, and because connor is resistant to a decent amount (does not get points of madness, does not suffer from levels of exhaustion, poison immunity, does not need to sleep eat or breathe + undead have disadvantage attacking him initially via undying warlock feature) of bullshittery, he can be used as a support/backup. he joined the harpers via laerel silverhand, an ex harper. he’s not ideal by any means, especially being undead and an aberration but desperate times call for desperate measures. when the end of the world is a possibility, it’s all hands on deck. being picky isn’t a luxury.

his level during this varies according to context and need and plot devices.

[mail-posting]

also thats not talking abput the random commissions he took up to get money and how the employers of those were anf the resulting exhaustion of doing as many as he could a day lest he fucking die but. you can guess i think

YEAH.....

[everythingisouroboros]

I don't want to hijack this post, so I won't put this in their notes, but its so wild to see just a totally different take on Elizabeth's role in the tribunal. I had always assumed that she was there because she chose to be there. Surely there's no reason for Krenel to target her specifically. Even if she'd been caught outside, I feel like she could have slipped off. But Elizabeth doesn't. She's in front right next to Titus, already trying to talk the Krenel mercenaries down when Harry and Kim show up. She doesn't even have a weapon but she doesn't back down through that whole stand-off.

I don't believe the Claires would have wanted her anywhere near the line of fire. Not necessarily out of the goodness of their hearts: they paid for her education as a lawyer, which seems like too much of an investment, both in money and maybe more importantly, time, to throw away. To me, it seemed like Everat considered the Hardie boys to be the disposable ones.

[iguessitsjustme]

Hey, quick questions. What's worse? Violating a dumb clause of a contract that you signed (when the clause should not exist in the first place) in a way that is not harming anyone and filling the world with love in the process or....being a fucking narc?

or

[blackpilljesus]

Horny het girlies would be way more satisfied with a vibrator or her own fingers than with a moid

Apparently only 7% who sleep around get an orgasm

Real.

Also much safer, no need to worry about possibly dealing with a rape ape.

[cerunilea]

You know, I kind of hope that both the Federation AND the Resistance/codes played a part in Cellbit ending up in that warzone in his youth. I just think it'd be kind of poetic and play into how it's certain that neither side is fully in the right nor terribly moral (though the jury's still out on which is worse, considering there's still too much in the dark about the actions and motivations of both), and put Cellbit into the situation of somehow having worked for/been manipulated by both sides that have played a major part in ruining a major portion of his life.

[fruixtii]

been thinking about my rsa au…

[deansawthetvglow]

i need to learn when to shut up