“I don’t think it’s such a bad thing to hang your dirty laundry out in front of the camera every so often. Screw it! Take off your clothes and let ‘em see your underwear.”
James Spader photographed by Dewey Nicks for Interview, April 1993
Very true and very powerful when I have traveled. I live on my Sun line and near my Venus line, so I have a great deal of popularity and protection from hateful people.
Each planet is going to give your life the theme of its energy.
You should also look at where the planet sits in your chart. e.g., a planet in the 7th house makes that LINE filled with people who want some kind of relationship, even a future spouse can come from this line. 4th house planets make their lines have a family and home flavor.
Sun line: Ego power and being a star. Brings responsibility but not too much. Leo energy.
Moon line: staying at home and being caught in sensations. Might bring very emotional people who want reassurance. Cancer energy.
Mercury line: neighbors, siblings, communication, research, routines, gossips, and lower education. Gemini and Virgo energy.
Venus line: lots of secret admirers, money, beauty, being a social butterfly. Libra and Taurus energy.
Mars line: Only good for military men and athletes. Can bring trouble with men and authority figures. Lots of high speed and destructive energy. Scorpio and Mars energy.
Jupiter line: Lots of good luck, inflated self image, travel, arrogant people or being arrogant and snotty. Good for higher education or can lead to boozing and drugging a lot. Sagittarius and Pisces energy.
Saturn line: Only good for people when they work very hard and live in utter discipline. Very isolating, very bare bones, very harsh on teaching you your karmic lessons. Terrible for slackers. Saturn and Aquarius energy.
Uranus line: Excellent for researchers, humanitarians, and geniuses. Brings lots of networking opportunity and futuristic energy. Also brings both good and bad luck randomly, terrible for homebodies and people who hate change. Energy of Aquarius.
Pluto line: This is a life and death line. Can bring danger, abuse, transformation, power, and forced facing of your soul. Stay away unless you are strong and blessed in the 8th house energies. This line can destroy simple people or even get you killed. Scorpio energy.
Chiron line: Brings you to commit your karmic sins and forces you to carry the lesson as a wounded healer. Stay away unless you want huge trouble. Everyone I know who was born on a Chiron line suffered terrible abuse as a child.
well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.
Get yourself an external hard drive or two and just start saving. The internet is not forever. Things are going to disappear, or (more likely) become harder and harder to search for, and more and more costly to access.
When did you last go looking for an older movie, only to realise it was unavailable on any streaming service and unavailable to buy? Restricted access and false scarcity are the only ways corporations can inflate and justify prices for digital content. In an era when we can carry entire libraries around on a phone, there is no reason to let these for-profit organisations control access to the wealth of human culture.
1TB of storage costs about $30-50 depending on the drive. Let’s say an average high quality movie rip is 1.5GB. That’s space for nearly 700 movies. The average ebook is around 2MB. That’s space for 500,000 books. The Library of Alexandria was generously estimated to house 400,000 manuscripts. You can beat the Library of Alexandria, in your apartment, for $30-50. Start right now.
if this isn’t enough to convince you, consider the satisfaction you will get from being the fucking chad in your group chat who’s like “yeah I can get you that” any time anyone is looking for anything. it’s real and it gets you maidens, take it from me.
it is very easy to steal from self checkout heres the strats
shop into a reusable tote bag. ideally a really big honking huge one. do not use a shopping cart or a basket to collect your groceries as you browse the store. put them in the big tote bag
when you get to self check out, do NOT put the tote bag full of groceries on the machine. Keep it hanging off your body and reach into it to pull out items to scan. all the items you scan for purchase you will actually be buying
scan all your large/bulky items until your big honking tote bag of groceries has deflated enough that it looks basically empty to someone standing a few feet away.
complete your transaction, paying for the items you scanned and keeping the rest hiding in the big bag
reload your purchased groceries back into the tote bag along with the groceries you never did scan. if you need to, reposition yourself so the camera on the self-checkout machine cant see inside your “empty” tote bag.
throw your receipt in the bag when youre done reloading your purchased groceries into the tote, and leave casually
this method works best for stealing small or flat items: spices, individual pieces of produce, small cuts of meat that can lie flat at the bottom of the bag, shampoos, vitamins, pill bottles, razor blades, packets of tuna, baby wipes, protein bars, candy bars, etc
Nicola Samorì (Italian, b. 1977, Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, based Bagnacavallo, Province of Ravenna, Italy) - Lepisario, 2013, Paintings: Oil on Copper, Private Collection
