You don’t need to be attached to a subculture that encourages astrology and crystal healing for that.

what makes you non witchy?

An extreme dislike of spirituality, magical thinking, and all other forms of anti-science/intellectualism.

You’re just casually slogging through dissociative existentialism on a regular basis?

Open ocean is still a bad idea for lots of reasons, there’s little room for navigation equipment or food or water or emergency supplies or a way to dry off and get warm… But they seal up pretty well so you won’t sink and rolling upright is a pretty basic skill.

Sea kayaks are a thing, one dude got from Germany to Australia in one in the 30s.

Bad decisions about the cost and timing of console releases and failure to support older systems. Nothing to do with IP management or legal decisions.

tell a story that interrogates people’s beliefs without them realizing it until later.

The term for this, at least as it pertains to science fiction, is “cognitive estrangement”.

And it’s an incredible bit.

Same way it’s always worked. Your best shot is by knowing someone in the field who can get you in the door for an interview.

I didn’t get any credential and I consider college one of the better things I did as a young adult. Learned a lot, experienced a bunch of cool things (and people) that make me a more rounded person, and I paid almost nothing out of pocket. (Thanks FAFSA)

Until you solve scarcity, one way or another, reject as decadent the image of the angelic lofty scholar who learns for the sake of learning.

No, fuck that. I will continue to consider learning for its own sake among the most interesting and important things a person can do.

What like we watch daytime television?

Politics and society are not and cannot be separated.

If there’s no wealth then there’s no “housing market”, going full classless-stateless-moneyless socialism is such a huge departure from the current state of things it doesn’t make sense to even have this conversation about it. (And giving to charity is all well and good but I generally consider charity to be addressing a failure of society and as long as we’re in fantasy land there should be no need for charitable giving)

Also: weaseling out of addressing any of the holes in your position by changing the subject instead of explaining any detail about your stance is weak.

I’m planning on my end-of-life being real cheap. I’d prefer a clean exit over a long decline, especially if I start losing my faculties. (Not much history of dementia in my family, thankfully)

The viscose rayon made from bamboo requires pretty nasty solvents, and that’s the stuff used to make soft stuff like underpants. It can also be made into a stiffer thread more like linen without a chemical process.

buying more clothes with natural fabrics

Cotton, wool, linen, and leather as well as re-learning to mend and alter clothes instead of everything being fast and disposable. I feel like I’m in crazytown every time I go shopping, there’s so much god damn plastic everywhere.

That’s something I can agree with. I think there’s a very reasonable compromise somewhere between “children can’t have a better life than their parents” and “five families own everything forever, including several governments.” $500 million still seems pretty damn high I’d cut that to 50 or even 5.

I think the dogs in Nice eat too much grass.

I think there’s something morally wrong with choosing not to contribute to your family or community past your own life but that is assuming your descendants are worth a damn. “A society grows great when old men plants trees” and all that.