Playing stupid phone games. Really mind-numbing, no talent required games. Currently into "Whiteout Survival". I am over 60 y.o.

It scratches an itch.

Those dumb bastards. Did they think we had unlimited money to spend on this shit?

Do you want Grandpa to pirate? Because this is how you get Grandpa to pirate.

Cops don't have to serve and protect or abide by the law. Power companies don't have to supply power. People who sell you things can deny you access to them.

Hey this is fun, let's do more!

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

Photography already killed art. It's nowhere near as popular as it was before photography. It's now becoming a time when commissioned works can be popularized as well. So art made by humans becomes even more niche.

Hey, I'm sorry for the roof thatchers and knife sharpeners out there, and what happened to their profession. The Appalachians and West Virginia is dirt poor because coal mining isn't what it used to be.

Why do "artists" think they're holy and should be protected?

That's a damn good stick

I can't believe this is happening. How can this be happening. We have the biggest threat to democracy in our short existence as a country and we counter it with the least dynamic candidate we could possibly run against him. I dread to think how we're letting power politics destroy this country. We hardly have a country left anymore. It's going to take something more.

They approached from both sides of the car with their hand on their waistbands as if they had a weapon. Was he supposed to magic his way out of that? Talk to them? Plead?

He had a gun. They threatened a person with a gun. This is what happens sometimes when you do that. It's the risk you assume when you take up carjacking. It's a high-risk occupation.

If you don't have anything to hide, then let them have your privacy. If you don't, well then, you're a suspected terrorist or child predator.

The logic is impeccable.

Edit: I WAS being sarcastic, but I guess I was getting upvotes from people who like the EU position as well.

Win-win.

This is bullshit. What could it possibly matter to them, other than to force people onto their miserable platform. Bastards.

The loss of the actual internet + The loss of actual search engines.

Let me explain. The internet used to be an open playground where anyone could post a website dedicated to their interests, and did so. There were websites about octopuses and electomagnets and all sorts of obscure niche interests. Free website space with plentiful, and everybody used it. You could see 50 pages of information about someone's dog Fifi, just because they wanted to put it out there. Or hand loading ammunition if that was their bag. Or why the Communist manifesto was a better document than the declaration of Independence. Anything went on your own web page.

And it became massive; so big that we needed search engines to find the exact thing we were looking for. When we wanted to find information about octopuses, we needed to search through all those obscure websites and find what we needed to find about octopuses.

So the search engine wars began.

We also had things like stumble upon, where you could be surprised by some interesting site, and there were rings, where interesting sites of the same genre linked together so you could follow a threat of interest through a bunch of obscure sites.

None of this was forced on you.

Now we have possibly 20 to 30 large websites that account for 95% of all the traffic on the internet? We have search engines that show us what they think we meant by our question, but not the exact answer to our question.

It's gone. We wondered how they were possibly going to tame the internet how they were going to close Pandora's box.

It's all gone.

I broke my penis masturbating when I was a kid. There was an audible snap and it had an offset in the middle like you see on a road after an earthquake, was constantly weeping blood from the opening, and hurt like hell.

I wrapped that sucker in toilet paper daily and carried on, never told a soul.

Edit: apparently, I was lucky https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/sexual-health/expert-answers/penis-fracture/faq-20058154