Magical times before my own on Usenet.

Exactly this. I don’t need 1080P or 4k mp4 rips with 10bit audio, and I definitely don’t have the storage for it, but when that’s all that is seeding, its usually quicker to just download it and re-encode.

Downloading large files from Usenet was paid pretty early on. If the core functionality of Usenet is now paid, this is news to me.

1st day: Maybe stay all day or until lunch?
2nd day: Come back for lunch
1st week: Come back for lunch on Friday

Beyond maybe weekly or monthly lunches, ideally from retired grandparents or shift-workers such as myself, I got nothing.

Dragging it out is almost always harder on everyone, including stay-at-home parents, but good luck getting them to admit that, or the teachers to admit when a parent is disruptive. The helicoptering and overly-pushy PTA/drama non-sense starts here.

Wait. Were we somehow expecting more from a live-action MODOK?

My lane is that Kirk needed to die, and listening to Hogg would have prevented it. Same goes for the leftist revolution that needs to happen, but I’ll settle for laughing at arterial blood spray for now, because I already know I’m an awful person. What’s your excuse?

Hogg has views that are correct for him, what he’s lived through, and sure, decent countries, which ours is not. The one view is unfortunately incompatible with what the people need for the US government and its cronnies.

I’ve hated his guts since he started speaking out, but that’s because he’s just correct enough and has the moral standing enough that I have nothing to use against him and his pro-gun-control platform.

He’s a DNC shill, but whether he’s a kool-aid-drinker or just using them(no sign of that, but this coin-operated boy can hope), I can’t help but wish him the best after what he’s been through.

No shit. My 9yo daughter is gonna think I’m cool as shit until she can be bothered to ask what it means. It has all the things.

For your second point, its not at all uncommon for previously-legit sites to go malicious. Age alone means nothing, nor does reputation after a few years.

You or I don’t have the right to kill a man like so without facing punishment from the government and society. At a minimum, you get to spend the rest of your life in fear of getting caught, but while I have every right to try to stop you, whining about it if you happen to get away is just that, whining.

I’m not going to waste that effort lamenting the death of someone whose life actively made the lives of so many so much worse, and no one has the right to make me.

End of the day, we don’t know who killed him or why just yet, but I doubt it was about his words alone, and odds are way too good that Donny just needed a distraction and an excuse.

Oh, I’m fully aware. It just boggles the mind how the same tired outlook has endured for decades now.

If I wanted to READ ai “snark”, I would spend more time on facebook, or go back to reddit. How hard could it be to slap a battery and 4G/5G modem on a google home or alexa? Eiter of which would be easier to run on a phone or tablet, which also includes speakers.

How do these morons that can’t match the convenience of existing privacy nightmares, or even DIY stuff, continue to get VC funding?

Fun story, Iraqi’s are allowed an AK-47 per family, and often carry them openly. At least they did in 2005. Soldiers’ Rules of Engagement were far stricter than US Cops as a result.

You had me, until the second-half of your last sentence. Its more like we can’t rely on perfectly rational systems, because we don’t comply, neither perfectly nor rationally.

Why in God’s Green Earth is the number-line backwards, and the negatives, on the right-hand side?

You didn’t lie to her. You told her the truth up-front and she refused to accept it, intimidating you into a relationship.
FUCKING.
RUN.
No warning, no head’s up, just pack your shit and get out when she’s out of the house one day. She’s proven she’s too immature and violent to be trusted, unless you like having, at a minimum, your stuff broken, abused, destroyed, and probably worse, like more baseless accusations.

Worth highlighting, Cadsketcher is parametric. https://youtu.be/1jNDLUDL0gc

You can buy add-ons for this to auto-generate standard gear-forms and threads/bolts/holes. It is also parametric.

https://youtu.be/1jNDLUDL0gc

Thus my quotes. Remember, the quickest way to be labelled a “banana republic” is to reject US interventionism and/or impliment anything resembling socialist reforms. Then, the most corrupt leaders who get deposed flee to “1st world” countries with the money they stole.

In other words, the whole 1st, 2nd, 3rd world schema is a conceit/correlation for the flow of money and resources, away from 3rd, and the flow of accountability, away from 1st.

Mind you, I’ve basically pulled this reasoning out of my ass over the last 14 hours, almost all of which was spent asleep, but hey, this is
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml .

The Preatorian Guard. Better have the backing of several Senators though. Otherwise, Assassin’s Guild.

Basically no way a President is going to prison in most “1st world” countries.