Time to spin up state post offices real quick.

Yes, but they wouldn’t be quite as rich. Why … they might even have to cut back on their private space program hobbies!

True, but it can definitely be done to excess. To the point where the nice item you’re keeping nice eventually just becomes worthless anyway.

Our elected officials all think we should live in a big PRISON

Of course. It’s the natural evolution of a police state to become a prison state.

Why is your ‘license plate reading camera’ taking a picture like this with no license plate in it?

Damn… Hamburglar’s transition is going really well. Super happy for her.

They deserve better

Eh… I’ll wait and see who they voted for before I decide if they deserve better than date night at walmart.

You can do a bullshit fork and then sell it, but if you owned it you could sell the exact same code with zero changes

To prove your point you’d need that example: an open source program that you can sell for profit with zero changes.

You can, though? If you find someone stupid enough to buy it, that is.

All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

It’s in the EULA for every piece of software, including physical.

*laughs in open source*

Worse than nothing, because now you need a place to store it and keep it safe.

Preach.

My girlfriend does this (or at least used to do this) all the time.

• When she was young, she was gifted a bunch of hand-embroidered clothes of the very traditional ‘old country’ style. At the time, she literally thought she wasn’t good enough to wear them (she’s a bit of a tomboy) and saved them away for later. By the time she finally found them again, safely packed away decades later, her style had evolved and she didn’t even like that old-fashioned stuff anymore, and she had to just get rid of it because she knew she’d never even want to wear it.

• Some time ago when she was poor and MP3 players were fairly expensive, she’d been using a really old gnarly and busted one every day. For her birthday, her brother got her a fancy new one with a lot more storage and a screen, really the latest and greatest. But she was afraid of losing it or breaking it, so she never took it anywhere and never used it. She kept using the old one. The new one sat on a shelf, safe in its original factory box for years and years. Nowadays, it’s completely obsolete and pointless because she can just play music from her phone. She never even loaded any music on it.

Sometimes (even often, maybe?) saving nice things for later just ends in the tragedy of those nice things never being enjoyed at all. She would have been better off if she wore and ultimately wore out and ruined those fancy clothes. She would have been better off if she’d used the fancy MP3 player for a while and it did get lost or broken. Sometimes, keeping precious things safe is the worst thing that can happen to those things. It’s like not having them at all – worse than not having them at all, because now you also need to dedicate storage space to them.

I have yet to see a good take come from anyone with a blue checkmark…

Well, you can, but it doesn’t taste as good as it looks.

Yeah. They didn’t move for the scenery – they moved to get away from the man-made famine put upon them by the English.

Hm, good health, probably. Maybe not perfect health, though. In the long run, old age and disease aren’t a matter of luck, but of certainty. If that health doesn’t have an expiration date, though, it’s basically soft immortality … or maybe even hard immortality if you strain the concept hard enough.

And portals? I don’t know quite how ‘ultimate’ this luck is, but you’d have to be extremely lucky for portals to just randomly appear when you want them. Maybe if random portals were a normal part of our everyday lives, then luck could cause you to always find just the portal you wanted. But I don’t know if there’s any amount of luck in the world that could cause magical portals to just appear out of nowhere. To me, being lucky means you’ll always get the best possible outcome when things are left to chance … but that doesn’t cover outcomes that are impossible.

Almost any of these could be replicated with ‘ultimate luck’ if you stretch the idea enough.

Flawless memory? Just guess – you’re lucky enough to be right every time, so you don’t need to remember things.

Animal communication? – Guess what the animal is saying, and you’ll be lucky enough to guess right. Ask them to do something, and you’ll be lucky enough that they randomly do it.

Weather control? – Why control it when you can just always have perfect luck with the weather and don’t even need to think about it?

Wardrobe? – Sure would be lucky if you just randomly found the perfect clothes whenever you needed them.

Fine dining? – Just wander around when you’re hungry, and I’m sure you’ll be lucky enough to just randomly come across opportunities for wonderful free meals.

Calorie immunity? – Maybe you’re lucky enough to have great genetics and a high metabolism, so you never need to worry about it.

Honestly portals are the least likely on this whole list to be covered by the luck aura.-

Seriously. You quit using some streaming service because they gave you ads, so you use a bittorrent client that has ads?

Plenty of good ones out there that don’t. Open source qbittorrent being my personal favorite.

Is that why my favorite kind of cheese is so much more expensive than every other kind of cheese?

“In a mouth? But I wanted to fertilize an egg!”

“Quit your complaining. We’re some of the lucky ones. Most of us end up in an old crusty sock.”

Ah, a vore fan!

Yay!