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Whew, I am awaken! Dang, those Vlad Dracul sleep rhythms are somewhat incompatible with open store-timespans.

Hopefully you floofs have a good time with less "Meh" and more "Badoom, that's fantastic!", a lot of tea (or beer?) and no alcohol intoxication.

And some food in the house - something I couldn't fulfill because 20h sleep took the best out of going shopping. It's 4:30 AM on Sunday now. :ROFLMAO:

.. we're on page 4666! ?
True, true!

Wargablarg - Loona.jpg
.. and what is this? The outcome of a mix of "Evil dead", "Phantasm" and "My little pony"?! :unsure:

Elkcip - Fluttershy.jpg
 
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Loona has a lot of variety to choose from, it seems. :ROFLMAO:

Pixelflare - Tirin.png

Kemocha - Canine Hell Dog.png

Ah, a Yimby! Welcome to the course of hellish drawings with hot ambitions! (y)
 
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Another day, another bug fix to the forum. Yay!

 
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Next one is a 69!

Another day, another bug fix to the forum. Yay!
Oh, a double list entry.. yep, blacklists often get prioritized beforehand whitelists to save those that want to eradicate and block unwanted visitors from first checking the whitelists for exceptions (and thus re-appearing of those visitors, if it got prioritized).

Dang, bakery is closed. Aaaaarghhhh! *bites a small chunk out of our beloved blood moon*
 
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That's great - sober partying, only a few people were clever enough to grasp a hold of such nowadays unusual decisions (the most would just drink until their body cells die in rapid numbers..). (y)

How is my Sunday treating me.. a good question. How is life or existence treating me?

Philosophic concepts of "you wish for what you don't have and learn too late what you had" meet with "you knew exactly what time leads to and wash it aside" for some parts.

Life's a weird concept of "you strive, work, invest time for a specific goal, because this goal would probably enrich others which are with you, less yourself".

After thousands of hours you're realizing: Yes - it would enrich the others, but to follow the way and establish process actually costs their time as well, you all lose time.

As such: usual Sunday morning with love and hate for the two towers of eternity.
 
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To put effort and time to enrich others have been an ongoing struggle for most people in the entire human history.
Modern capitalism is nothing more than a newer version of a feudal society. Most often those at the top still keep the wealth and power within the family for generations.
So, unless one is born in the less than 1% of the families with true power, you are just a modern variant of peasant serving the lord of the land / top share holder.

I see it as just a continuation of what it means to be human.
 
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Oh, that's correct, even as I didn't even think of it in this regards, as I don't "work for humans" basically.
Aside all the taxes and necessary service workers you have to consult to apply law-conform bureaucracy.

But it doesn't really resemble "what it means to be human", it's more of a "what it means to have a constructed society which advantages those in control of the settings". Same as it doesn't "mean to be human" to be the game master of a P&P role play game.

Most societies are made to control people, the masses, to find a way with lowest internal conflict and the ability to solve ultimate exterior problems with combined powers and wisdom. "Save the energy and direct it into necessary bigger goals for all".

Since around 1300-1400 it first changed into "long live monarchy!", more or less a status quo of dictatorship, then a dictatorship split in trusted family members and friends, then a form of democracy which was easy to handle, to steer.

Nowadays the goals are more or less far away from "keep them away from internal conflicts" and based on "stirring internal conflicts so as they don't unite against directive management with manipulative / selfish goals in mind, often founded by private companies".

As in the actual numbers which are to get "managed" - compared to around 100 initially, while villages and camps formed and around 1000 at a time of small, but functional mayor- or elder-regulated regions - the actual numbers of regulated people and unfortunately the amount of money to "use for them" - but in reality not so rarely "against them" - grew by multiple factors.

And there's still a level of individual greed, "worth and value" which nowadays with a country of 90 million as example is ways easier "bought" and corrupted than in a camp with 100 people, just by taking a few cents to dollars / euros of each citizens or members.

This corrupts the whole system into a level of selfish, greedy corporate-influenced shitshow, even raising as more and more people don't feel any "bond" to other humans, to the goals and a good life of those humans, a form of companionship working towards bigger goals. That was here even around 1960-1980 still existent, but got lost mostly in the last three dozen years. ?‍♂️

Nowadays they strive mainly for just one goal: their own comfortable, rich life. Neighbors? Family? Friends? Very rarely..

As such I wouldn't call this what it means to be human. For most people being human means just being selfish, that's all. Aside this.. they're not better than any wild hungry animal and would do the same the second it promises them a noticeable rise in their long-term comfort and power.


But this aside: What I meant initially was more linked to decisions and tasks which you set for yourself. Not someone else, no third human person, just yourself. Which are based on some increase and enjoyment in life - of someone you're with and which you wish all the best, be it a pet, a human, whatever.

You'll still lose time for or from you both if you invest it into the task, the project. At the end it all takes time out not only of your own existence, but as well out of the existence of those you do it for.


At the end: Money means not much. It doesn't grant you necessarily a longer life or more enjoyment, more fun in life. It just eases the ways to your self-dictated goals and wishes. If you change your wishes, there might be a possibility to live somewhere even without much or any of the stuff that people keep to have power (i.e. to keep you to work for those).

But surely enough this removes quite a bit of comfort from ones life. And if it's necessary for as example medical procedures.. there's a big difference in "poorer" and "richer" layers of the made-up society, that's true. Unfortunately.
 
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I would not go so far and say that money don't give you more enjoyment. With a lot of money you can spend a big sum on things you enjoy.
I will exemplify with myself:
I really enjoy hitting the slopes with ski's and snowboard. Room to stay near such a location cost money, food is more expensive there, one needs gear and a ski pass, neither is cheap, other clothes than the regular clothes, also more expensive, bigger car to have room for all those stuff, cost of fuel.
With no money I would not be able to do what I enjoy, with a little money I would only be able to do it occasionally, but with a lot of money I would be able to do it basically when I want to.

So, with money comes the ability to do things you enjoy more often than compared to having very slim financial muscles.
 
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