I think I still have a zip disk as a sort of war trophy from the Days of Horror & Dial-up.

VPN -- while it is potentially someone else tracking you, depending on the shadiness of your chosen provider, it’s not quite the dystopian hellscape you over-simplified it to be. Unless you’ve voluntarily signed yourself over to social media. Then, yup, they’ve tracked and commodified you and you said “pretty please”…

Glad to hear you liked it better than IV did. I got worried with mentions of disappointment a la Dr. Strange, which wasn’t bad, but kinda “meh,” because wow, we’ve had a lot of origin stories at this point.

Now, now. Can’t you see there is a giant female conspiracy against him? He’s suffering. There are mobs of women...doing things specifically to him. Due to women and “their” movie...

“...feminists hate ...all the troops.” Yeah. Definitely a core tenant of feminism, nothing to do with people who happen to be feminist disliking him ‘cause he’s an asshat. That’s just how logic works. LOL.

Got tired of the concern troll and dismissed.

I don’t mean this unkindly, but I think soliciting advice on what hobby to do isn’t the way to identify one for yourself. The possibilities are endless and they’re so personal. What makes your brain purr isn’t going to be what makes my brain purr. That’s why other people’s hobbies can sound so ridiculous. “You’ve…

“...didn’t know where the wild-caught cod was caught.”

Planned Parenthood is, in fact, the only access to reproductive health care available and/or affordable for many people. Health care in this country is wildly unaffordable, as is health insurance. Many do without — I did for about a decade. Here’s a study from December 2018 that summarizes the larger problem. But,…

There’s been a string of news articles about this, and it is posted on the ACLU site, but the quick answer is, based on my recollection of email updates from the ACLU on the issue: last fall, the Feds had said they couldn’t/wouldn’t be arsed to do much, and so the ACLU was tracking down the families, including those…

Yes, but if we tell victims that they “just need to carry a gun,” then it’s their fault if something happens and we don’t have to do anything! Geez, it’s not that hard. /sarcasm.

That is a sweeping statement.

While I heartily agree with the sentiment, it’s not so easy. Yes, this law is abysmal on multiple levels. However, I can understand why healthcare practitioners aren’t chomping at the bit to lose their licensing, their businesses, a large source of funding in PP’s case, or go to jail, to defy it. I also understand…

I’d like “Phrases I never thought I’d say or agree with for $200,” please.

...but he wasn’t nearly incompetent or evil enough, right?

Social activities only revolve around bars if you insist they do so. My standard first-date to work acquaintance meet-up isn’t a bar. Works just fine.

I wouldn’t trust him with anything as important as the motor pool. Is there a designation for “idiot with mop, limited to common areas only”?

Suckers for Capitalism, you mean.

My first job was at a second-run movie theater. Tarzan, the Lion King, and Aladdin all came through. We sang the bimbo harmonies for certain songs and braced ourselves for the wave of screaming toddlers being hauled out of the theater when various scares/deaths occurred. Phil Collins brings the ghost of…

I thought the whole “I can’t show you my tax returns because of an IRS audit” was disproven back in 2016. Or is this something else?