I had mold in my CamelBak straw. I had the hardest time replacing it.

It depends on how she enters the industry. The vast majority of women enter via the “casting couch” or amateur “professional” route. If she has the right agent, she’ll get the same rate across the “usual” companies. She might get the most from the first shoot (maybe by $100-200) for the “privilege” of shooting her first video.

The companies are very familiar with each other and they work with the agent. So if they find out they weren’t the first, the companies might not work with the agent again.

During the pandemic, I was watching a lot of porn and wanted to learn the business side of things. From what I learned, a girl’s first shoot is often the most money she’ll earn for one shoot.

They can earn more but often require riskier sex (e.g. multiple men, more kink, anal, etc.) but for vanilla boy/girl scenes, it’s usually it.

Women can often make more if they become famous enough that the demand is there but it’s kind of like high school basketball players thinking they’ll make the NBA.

One thing that did surprise me was that there is not as much exploitation as I thought there would be. There is, of course, some exploitation but, much like any industry, there are shitty people everywhere. Most of the adult industry are pretty good people trying to do good things.

Honestly this needs to be more of things in the States. And the deposit cost needs to go up.

If companies were forced to retake their garbage, we’d see far less pollution.

We need more Lower Decks memes.

No one becomes a billionaire accidentally. Even if she pays people top dollar, she can charge less at the gate, she could pay her people bonuses on top of their salary. She could donate half of her income to homeless shelters in whatever city she’s touring in.

She’s a billionaire because she chooses to be.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Conservatives only care about small government when they are the ones being oppressed by the federal government. Like when Congress passed laws banning slavery.

But they care about federal laws being forced onto states when they are the ones doing the oppressing. Like when they passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

They don’t care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.

Would TSMC be considered a competitor to AMD?