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The US surveillance state is communism, you read it here first.

Political literacy.

Take a cock and find out

Neither. It cures the diarrhea of its ailments.

Does cold medicine make you cold? Don't get me started on pain medicine.

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I've said it before and I'll probably say it again.

The movie "Stand By Me" is going to be age restricted because it depicts unsupervised children. Today all the parents would be arrested.

That is one of the things Fromm comments on in The Sane Society (and a bit in The Art of Loving too).

Modern society suppresses our spontaneity, it tries to convince us that having is as fulfilling as being. Especially in childhood, choices of activities can't be self-directed when you are going through social conformity training. They get replaced by passive consumption of commodities. Fromm did predict that those tendencies would only worsen over time, which indirectly predicted how our society would start resenting children, removing kids from the streets, asking for child-free spaces everywhere.

Alienation also includes separating people from nature and self-directed activities. I do not plan to have kids myself, but I am doing my best to help my nephews (and great nephews fuck I'm getting old) enjoy being as much as they enjoy having. Not in a pushy way, just encouraging their curiosity and logistically helping them try things that aren't welcome in third places anymore.

Minor thing.

I remember children going outside to play.

There were almost no kids in the park near me after all that snow. Didn't see one snowman.

Sure, if you want to have fun with it go ahead! It's currently very complete game design wise, went through two years of iterating, playtesting, adjusting, balancing, and is regularly played by a bunch of people and showcased in a few conventions every now and then, just hasn't found a publisher yet (card games are notoriously hard to get published, can take many years of trying).

Thanks !

The art I did for Future Invaders is a good example, couple hundred illustrations over there :)

Practice is the only trade secret, if you put an hour a day into serious drawing practice you'll be starting to get good at it and have developed your own style within a year. I thought I was too old / didn't have enough "talent" to learn to draw, turns out anyone can with some effort. Had a great uncle who learned to paint from zero in his 80s and made really beautiful art, remembering his work was my motivation: if he could do it, then anyone can.