Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.

It got bad several years ago, which is when I permanently jumped ship to DDG. It’s nowhere near as good as Google used to be, but on the other hand, it’s also nowhere near as bad as Google is now.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

I assume this is a version of Apples To Apples that’s just loaded with innuendo and double entendres? Because if so, that’s hilarious and I need a copy.

“I’m coming” - Someone is forcing me to come

I mean, I’d watch it. It couldn’t be worse than the ST.

Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.

Steph-Steph-ooh-la-la doesn’t have quite the same ring.

Putting the “Queen” back in Queen Amidala.

They were such hypocrites, as if Yoda and Yaddle weren’t banging one out behind the scenes at every opportunity.

Disappointed they didn’t survey the whole nation. It’d be funny to see figures like “0.1%” for Florida or Hawaii.

They should add a Bill Gates racecar to Super Tux Kart. It could be covered with ads, and so bloated that it never actually wins a race.

I spend most of my social media time on the Fediverse, but I do reluctantly use Reddit when I’m looking for information that isn’t available here.

Whenever I use a browser without adblock, it takes me back to the early 2000s, and not in a good way.

AMA request: Someone who’s actually downloaded the helpful tool.

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Time to buy stock in Stack Overflow, I guess.

Dead telephone theory

Maybe the heavy breathing wasn’t actually him breathing. Rather, it was the sound of him crying as filtered through the suit.