Quite abnormal. Not bad, though.

From what I’ve heard, the biggest problem is the inputs. You can write a ‘smart’ contract that says ‘if I get a pizza, user9000005 pays user30000004 XXX bitcoins’ but there’s no direct sensor for ‘user9000005 has a pizza.’ Someone has to manually put it in. At that point, it’s not automated. It’s just a payment processor with way less certainty, so why bother?

Don’t worry. If we all go out and buy ourselves a birthday cake, you didn’t just depressively try to fill the hole in your soul with cake, you had cake with fellow community members.

The data is different for a ‘photo’ one took vs one of many other types of image. Your camera/phone can often include a lot of surprising data, possibly even your PII or location. An image you made in krita or with a screenshotting tool is somewhat less likely to have such data.

The gatekeepers are disintegrating. Now it is up to you to sort through the onslaught of fanfiction to find the originality.)

Glancing over the images… Hmm, okay… Israel being a bit weird… Recessed is definitely better… what the type L is that?

Never watched it. Are they explicitly Texan?

Insert Invincible ‘you don’t’ meme here

But seriously, you can’t. You either choose to be ignorant of 99.99% of the world or to be ignorant of 99.9% of the world and live in a perpetual scramble to absorb all the disparate information. Most news isn’t worth knowing in and of itself, only serving as data to construct deeper understanding, so unless you are going to actually connect the dots, it’s a better use of your time to let the world act as a filter and only pay attention to what hangs around long enough to get through to you.

Hey! What’s that?! Is that chinchy treats! Don’t be hiding it from me! Hey! Don’t ignore me! Give it here!

One of the biggest problems with human societies is that parents, by necessity, have their brains broken and, due to modern values/life, are under constant strain. Being a parent means (generally) the kid is priority 1, then there’s everything else. This is a necessary irrationality, but if this means you have to do the occasional genocide or violate someone else’s civil rights to ‘keep our kids safe’ then, by god, those people are just going to have to suck it up and die. Sometimes, if you have the time, you can talk some people around and remind them, one day their kids are going to have to live in society as one of those 'someone else’s and won’t always be their precious little baby, but almost no one has the time and energy for a more nuanced thought than ‘save the babies!’ much less if they also have to work 48 hours, commute 10 hours, and parent their kid(s) for 167 hours each week.

Tobias, from accounting: The shipping department is the only one running at a loss. Why is your department ordering so much furniture?

Thomas, Shipping: How else are we supposed to make 1 ft^3 of packing peanuts fill a box big enough to destroy the spine and sanity of the UPS driver?

Tobias: Why would you want to do that?

Thomas: It’s part of the departmental vision statement. The company has one. Why can’t we?

You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don’t know about price there.

Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don’t want to drop them because it’d make a mess.