I don’t care for them most of the time, but they are ideal when you’re about to get on a plane, or go to a movie theater, or theme park, or anywhere where you want to be high for a long time but can’t smoke.

I’ll have forgotten what happened and moved on by the time it actually comes out.

I don’t know, small personal websites and webrings are having a bit of a comeback. Federated networks are humming along ,if not growing. AI is, ironically, making it much easier for people to build their own tools and ditch SaaS.

I still have hope for a decentralization comeback.

I mean, if the cause of their sadness is a lack of dick then I would understand the impulse. But the responder is still right, don’t tease a starving person.

To be fair “non-harassing way” is a bit subjective. I’ve seen dudes have success with methods that I would consider “harassing”. I’ve also seen guys condemned as creeps for approaching women at what I’d consider a reasonable time & place.

And the loudest most unreasonable people on both sides dominate the narrative online, which makes the whole topic seem more fraught to young guys than it really is in real life.

The truth is one person’s “playful teasing” is another person’s “harassment”. You have to develop your sense of empathy and feel it out on a case by case basis. Pretending this black and white doesn’t help anybody.

I think you’re on to something. Probably not a coincidence that the increase in prudishness has coincided with the decline of anonymity.

I hate it.

One of my favorite bands!

The only possible way to do it justice was animated. Hope they prove me wrong, but they’re going to have to compromise massively somewhere to do it in live action w/ CGI.

Finally, one that’s truly ancient.

I hope you’re right. That would mean us younger generations managed to right the ship.

If society progresses to the point where my grandkids are condemning me for eating non-lab-grown meat or something it will be in spite of the boomers best efforts - and due to us younger generations dragging them kicking and screaming onto a more sustainable path.

Progress is not an inevitability.

It’s not about what they failed to fix, it’s about what they actively fucked up.

As a voting block, their demographic consistently did the opposite of “Plant trees under which shade you will never sit.” At every turn they sacrificed their children’s future for short term profit.

Boomers deserve their selfish reputation.

I find the wanton sexualization of the 80s and 90s almost wholesome compared to whatever the fuck is going on these days. Sex is too important to be relegated to porn - but that seems to be the mission now.

We’re allowed to have heaps of gratuitous violence, action, and misery in our art - but for some reason sex/nudity has this unique obligation to directly progress the plot (if it can’t be removed altogether). Sex apparently can’t just be part of character development, themes, world building, or just gratuitous fun, anymore without giving these fucking prudes the ick.

I think the illusion of control is a factor. People largely feel in control of their own fate behind the wheel, whereas on a plane you must completely surrender control and trust others to be competent.

I immediately start fondling myself with it.

No, it’s not just you. DDG hasn’t been very good in my recent experience. I bit the bullet and gave Kagi a try and it’s been excellent. It’s what I recommend now.

It’s not free, but I’ll gladly pay to ensure that I’m the customer being tailored to instead of the product being sold.

Darkweb marketplaces

I’m curious what led up to this. Were they really obvious going in together? Were they being really loud? It seemed like everyone was riled up before he even opened the door.

Learn to cook & meal-prep. Invest time into your health and fitness. Self-host as many techy services as you can (bonus points for Arr stack - streaming services are expensive). Try to “BIFL” where possible - Terry Pratchett said it best:

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.