My library has free access, as do any number of local business and location. And I once lived in a building that bundled internet/TV service for every resident.

Your former company is having a very bad week, indeed.

Costa Rica’s doing OK. They figured the US keeps starting military coups in the Americas, may as well remove that attack vector. Nobody’s calling them a superpower though.

OK, hear me out, let’s start a patent troll corp. and file for all the enshittification ideas ahead of the studio owners.

Well-read atheists have more credibility

Why should we give government or politicians a free pass just because they’re “on our team”? If you can’t find something they’re not doing well, you haven’t looked. Also, a single-axis political spread is passé.

That movie was more about the AMOC collapsing (which is projected to happen between now and ~50 years), but uncharacteristically (/s), Hollywood got the science wrong.

Wait, are you telling me deregulation didn’t help the citizens, only the capital interests?

I insist I don’t want to use Chrome, but search suggestions for local IP ranges is really annoying.

The 8 seconds may include looking up how to fix it, since it’s apparently unknown to the poster. But you don’t get any imaginary internet dopamine points for that

When I went out of my way to fix things and make it better, I ended up getting promotions, but YMMV.

At least the people are nice

I also learned I meet hEDS criteria, hypermobile joints needed more care than I was giving them, was having too much dopamine from chasing weight numbers. Hopefully I can at least be a cautionary tale.

Some of my biggest back pains are from going to the gym! 😉

This is good and you should feel good

My newly set expectations are once again subverted!

I’d guess, in this case, imagining a wrongfully imprisoned grandma is thought to be more immoral than “just” a 50 year old. It also causes readers to imagine their own grandma in the same situation, instead of a stranger.

I really don’t think the Mooninites will see it coming, so war should be over in a week or two. I’m willing to back a nuclear bombardment of the Moon, if it will ensure that I can still watch football this weekend.

I thought Station Eleven was pretty good about it, small vehicles / motorcycles for a while, then bicycles and horses + wagons, plus a lot of walking. That was a wildly different scenario though (99.9% of the population poofed in a few day period), so there were a ton of abandoned resources for any survivors.

Kitty rejects the owner/property relationship.