I think there is a lack of opportunity epidemic in the USA right now. The way people cope with that varies.

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Cynicism is a legitimate form of pre-Socratic philosophy.

we could it would just take an unprecidented change in voter sympathies.

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already happening. In a similar but different post there are already folks saying “that’s why i’m here.”

I used to assume most of the bots belonged to Reddit. I still do, too.

Have you tried the Bacon SPAM? It tastes kinda like a cross between hot dog and bologna.

I guess Friday is going to be Chili-Cheesedog day for me for here on out.

I read that link and I’m not sure I understand Doctorow’s reasoning on the subject. I typically find people that dismiss voting with their wallet fundamentally misunderstand microeconomics but either way, both points (yours and mine) are definitely not hills I’d die on.

manually. I used to sync via dropbox, but i was never comfortable with that solution.

Indiana, $3.59/gal according to a quick check of Waze. I remember during Bush II in 2007 it got up $4.50/gallon near here. That sucked.

I was introduced to sweet corn on pizza by someone from the U.K. It was pretty good.

gattaca! Gattaca! GATTACA!

Am American/USian/Yankee what does “crashing out” mean?

The complaints about sex-trafficking were never real or about sex-trafficking. They were the equivalent of today’s internet age gate laws that are popping up all over. It was about control then as it is now.

hey, Leisure Suit Larry had a really tough 3-part questionaire to seperate adults from minors.

web pages used to sort of operate that way with the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ folder. i’m not sure how it’s changed i just know this was how i used to circumvent websites that disabled right-clicking to save their images.

The cable is the first thing to go for me, but i find that to be a repairable issue. Unlike those damn dongles on the wireless ones.

I used to do that. I’d turn the water heater all the way up and then start a shower as hot as it will go while leaving the fan off. -I had to eventually clean the ceiling of the bathroom with bleach-water to remove the water spots, though