If you run the citizenship cycle every 13 years, and you get paid 5 million every time, that’s still about 32 k$ per month, which is not bad. It takes a very long time, but it should be worth it.

Mussolini would be proud. His teachings are being followed a hundred years after he wrote the book on this topic.

How long does it take to become a US citizen? That determines how often you can sell your citizenship and restart the process. Imagine getting 5 million every year or two.

1. Encrypt your data.
2. Make a disk image.
3. Make a torrent of that image.
4. Start a cult where the torrenting your data determines the ranking within the order.
5. Come up with a cool name and logo for the cult. Maybe something like “The Archivists of Eternity” for example.
6. ???
7. Profit

LOL, you got me! The chocolate thing is pretty much satire. Totally forgot about the fake cheese though. That would have been even better. I don’t know if anyone actually eats chocolate or cheese to cure homesickness. I suppose some of the other products might be more appropriate. People can have memories attached to all sorts of weird things, so I guess technically any food could be applicable.

However, the thing about prices is entirely factual, at least in my area. Everything in there is so expensive, that you would have to be really curious or desperate to try them out.

When you get homesick and want to eat some American chocolate or whatever, you won’t find it just anywhere. You’ll have to go a special American store for that. You know, like one of those Asian markets, but for American stuff. Everything in there is also really expensive, so don’t expect to visit every day.

Speaking of corruption, there are places where you don’t call the cops under any circumstances. If you somehow end up talking to cops for any reason, you can expect to loose a lot of money.

The police officer could request a bribe or threaten with fake fines. There could also be harassment, abuse of power and even violence. The police forces can actually form a sort of government-owned mafia, where lower-ranking officers are expected to collect bribes and pass them up the chain of command.

Thanks. Mystery solved.

About that family thing. If anyone ever tells you that “we are family” it means you can call them for help when you’re moving. If you have trouble configuring your router, call your new family for help. If you need to drill a hole in a concrete wall, but you do don’t have the right drill bits or other tools, call your new family.

If your boss doesn’t want to come over to drill some holes in a concrete wall on a Saturday afternoon, they’re not really family, and they can’t expect you to act like family either.

The way I see it, there are, generally speaking, two main routes:

1. Draw the pictures yourself,
2. Write a computer program that can generate some sort of art.

Drawing requires lots of practice, as others have already pointed out. Writing a program takes skill, patience, knowledge and time, so it’s not that different really.

The main difference is what happens next. If you’ve made a picture, you have a single picture. If you’ve made a picture generating application, you can have unlimited pictures. The latter option comes with some pretty harsh limitations, because the range of possible pictures can be very limited.

Here’s an example of option 2: pattern collider

Welcome to the trough of disillusionment.

I can. Also, the headache is 100% real.

A mobile phone is for emergency calculations only. If your life, job or honor depends on it, you can make it work, but it’s going to suck sooo hard.

A tablet can do much more as long as you have a keyboard. Also, Apple Numbers and Google Sheets are just barely acceptable for light calculations, nothing more.

When you start doing anything even a little bit more demeaning, you really need to use a laptop. Even the browser version of Excel isn’t good enough. You really need to run the actual application.

My thoughts exactly. The number of Linux users and programmers here may distort the picture OP gets from these comments.

I know someone who just started studying game development. No prior programming experience required. I guess that’s not a problem as long as you do your homework properly.

Phones are great when mobility is a high priority. Tablet are great for on the go entertainment. Laptops and desktops are great for everything else.

For example, searching information online is so much nicer if you can ctrl click and you have 15 tabs open in no time. Then you can jump between the tabs quickly to compare sources efficiently.

That’s the first explanation I was able to find, and I still don’t know what everyone here is talking about. Why do Americans love to use so many acronyms for anything and everything?

All these years, preppers may have been right. Having a well supplied fortress of your own can turn out to be very handy.

What did I just watch? Like… educational content, explained by… 🤷 not at all who you would have expected. What a unique mix.

Absolutely! You just gotta involve blockchain, AI and cloud computing. Otherwise, the investors won’t know how hot Reddit is. Slap on some quantum computing, and you’re all set.

We’re just getting warmed up here! There’s so much to do.

How about we introduce several tiers of premium currency, like copper, silver, gold, platinum rubies and diamonds, each with their unique exchange rates.

You could have limited-time awards purchased with one of the premium currencies. Also, add time-gated features, like temporary access to meme subreddits, or comment and post visibility boosts.

Pay-to-win mechanics should be included too. How about time-limited karma boosters?

Oh, and loot boxes! We’ve got to have those too. You could buy basic loot boxes with copper coins, and in those you could find a few silver coins randomly. With the silver coins, you can buy silver boxes, some of which may contain gold coins, and so on all the way to diamond tier. Now that you have a convoluted assortment of different currencies, you can use them to boost your account, posts and comments in different ways. Oh, and Season passes too, can’t forget those!

Ads. So much ads! Of course, you can get rid of some of them, depending on how much you pay and which currency you use. These are all time-limited features, so you better keep those coins and gems flowing every day.

And subscriptions too! Once you subscribe to something like 1231 copper coins a day, you can’t cancel without climbing the mount Kilimanjaro. The only cancel button is physically located on a computer somewhere up there.

And there’s so much more to come.