I’m not sure of the availability guarantees, but Oracle and other cloud services have free tiers for low CPU/RAM/storage needs. If the availability guarantees are there, this could be an option. It works fine for FoundryVTT and hasn’t cost me anything for the last couple years, and I don’t imagine your projected needs would outstrip Foundry’s.

That’s exactly what I said.

I’d agree that unnecessary contracts are subsidies but then that just pushes your point down the road a little bit. I’d say that maintaining the ISS isn’t unnecessary, for instance.

Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.

I’ve had multiple cats, all trained in one degree or other. Getting a cat to do what you want is kind of hard. Getting them to do something they like to do on command is pretty easy. I had a cat that would play catch, usually with uninflated balloons. I’d try to make her do backflips for the catch. All my cats were trained to stay off the counters and tables (when we were around). But I also recognize that cats don’t see us as masters and authorities, so you bet they would go on the counters when we weren’t around, for instance.

If I had less morals or more energy, I’d give you a hundred upvotes.

Well, if you don’t consider your spouse to be family, then I suppose you shouldn’t ever fuck your family. If you do consider your spouse to be family then, first, it’s the only family you should literally fuck, and second, that is how you get more family.

That sucks.

This could be the opening shot on CEO season.

You’re asking for a lot of deep thought from young people who are lashing out in pain or anger and frustration.

That’s why I find it funny. It would be like halving the resolution in a closeup of a massive, erect cock. No one would be confused about what they were looking at and their attention would be focused on it due to the resolution change.

I didn’t say this was an effective way to solve the problem, nor do I think the other poster’s assertion is accurate.

Another factor to consider is dehumanizing people is often the first step in justifying atrocities against them, such as the murder of this doubtless terrible CEO, and that has an impact on both the person doing the dehumanizing and the person or persons being dehumanized.

The usual impetus for slaying the dragon is to stop it from eating people.

The other argument I’ve heard is so that people will see how much the government is taking from them, and be angry about it. This would be particularly useful for politicians who campaign on smaller government.

You made me spit out my cat burger.

My multivitamins are shaped like balls!

The trick is to not show discomfort after slapping your testicular tumors.

Or an r in wash. Warsh, or Warshington.

It’s generally only l before m, and b after m. So no l sound in salmon or calm, but there is in solve. Oddly, there’s no l sound in salve. Likewise, there is no trailing b sound in bomb, dumb, or lamb. Of course, it’s important to remember this is English, where the exceptions outnumber the rules, which is expected when you mash three languages together with a sprinkling of the rest of the languages.