Idk about 9/11, but I'm sure as hell he didn't do 7/11

Bush dud X11. Wayland gang unite.

9/11 made a lot of countries really like america for a minute there but then america got angry :/

9/11 killed a lot of people, but it also made a lot of countries hate america, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not,

well it allowed the usa to invade the middle east so who can say if 9/11 was good or bad

well i can't be the judge on that until you specify the year and whether it's month/day or day/month

I wish he hadn't

Yes, I enjoy the lack of friction when writing, feels like my hand can be much more relaxed. I also like the endless-refilling-with-barely-any-waste aspect.

i see the comparison now!!

i used to write journal entries on old invoices then shred them cathartically. you make do!

I used a fountain pen all through school, from the age of about 8 to 16. For the vast majority of this time I used a single pen, a very cheap one (I think it was a pack of two or three for about £2). Since I'd used it so much at a slightly odd angle, the nib wore right down and I was so used to it that if it ever broke I'd take ages to get used to a new one.

I ended up dropping out of school at 16 and I never went back to collect my stuff, so that pen's final resting place is unknown. I've not used a fountain pen since. In university, I decided on a whim to start writing exclusively with mechanical pencils, and I really like them to casually write with. I have a fancy steel Parker mechanical pencil I was given as a gift and that's my main writing tool.

I have no paper to write on, every time I need or want to do some algebra I go hunting for an envelope to write on and any pen at all.

I should get a notebook and a decent pen and just use it; I have nothing to use to write.

Vim is a text editor that is kind of hard to get used to but its fans love it to bits

No, I am very particular to the Zebra F-301

i don't know what vim is but i love a retractable ballpoint pen

i tried a bunch but i always find myself back on retractable ball point pens

i feel it's kind of like vim with how people espouse them

i'm a fountain pen newbie and they are definitely a hassle compared to disposable pens but i enjoy looking at the variation in ink colours. i bought this in a brick-and-mortar stationery store and it's just very pretty

i feel like it's the sort of thing writers pick up

no i used to bother buying nice (i.e. maybe like four pens for $20) pens but then i realised that it didnt make enough difference to me to care or bother. so now i just use whatever generic pen branded with some company i dealt with once or some bic stabilo pilot or something that i bought when it was getting hard for me to buy a pen. in fairness i use a tablet for school work so really i'm using a Microsoft TM Surface TM Pen TM

i've never actually used a fountain pen but it seems like it would be a hassle.

oh i know all of them

can you get a refund

let me check my orb

as someone who pays thousands of dollars a year to learn things i can confidently say that i know... very little

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas is a wide ranging overview of slot machines and the people involved with them, like designers, gamblers, casino operators, regulators, executives etc. It's shockingly deep on the subject while also being clear and easy to read. And also like, apocalyptic.

You understand by reading it that the effect slot machines have on people is that they'll sit at them and don't want to be disturbed, and keep spending to the point where they can't gamble any more money. All the rest of the people in the book who aren't gamblers construct elaborate fantasies where that's not what this is all about.

Once you read it you start seeing slot machines everywhere, like so many things function like a slot machine does. So many things are allowed to exist using similar methods to how slot machines work. It can be a very depressing book, but there's something extremely illuminating about it. I came out it feeling better prepared to live life in the world the way it is.

god i love name of the wind

In addition to agreeing with vopoplar's recs of anything by le guin, i've also got:

Gideon the Night by Tamsyn Muir - Science fiction fantasy novel mystery about a gay sword girl and her goth necromancer hate-girlfriend.

The Name of the Wind by Patric Rothfuss - Lovely fantasy story about a guy who loves music and also is learning magic at a school far more interesting than a certain Terf Wizard School author's.

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - Science fiction epic about an empire and how that empire affects the rest of the galaxy. Very good politics.

Ancilliary Justice by Anne Leckie - A fragment of a destroyed ship AI seeks justice for the rest of their ship being destroyed. Also the empire that owned the ship doesn't distinguish gender at all which is cool.