No, because I’m not 12 years old.

neesh for all purposes.

I’ve never heard anyone talk about a “nitch.” Maybe an US dialect?

Canada has Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID). People can - with medical approval and assistance - choose to go out on their own terms.

Do you mean within the US or trust internationally?

The rest of the world has begrudgingly let the US dominate world commerce, culture, and morality. Now they’re realizing how much of their own identity they’ve given away, and are struggling to recover from it. Critically, even if the US ever gets their shit together again, nobody else wants to go back to the same relationship they had. We’ve been forced out of an abusive relationship, and now we’re free.

Always has been.

SNL appeals to a certain demographic. As the cast and style chang, you age out. The result is that you look at ‘your’ cast as awesome, and everything after as cringe. Then, after two generations of TV, you find that it’s funny again. Maybe not as good as it once was, but pretty decent.

People 7-10 years younger are going to experience EXACTLY the same thing - shifted by 7-10 years.

And the exact same thing will happen with music.

Generally, because that’s not how cartoons are voiced.

However, table reads at comic conventions are a popular thing.

In the early '80s, BBSes were a source of piracy. Also, local user groups would share or rent tapes/disks of software ‘only to be used that month,’ with a wink and a nod.

In the mid-'80s, I was downloading…images from FTP sites around the world, and also assembling multi-part uuencoded files from Usenet.

This was all before the web, and It wasn’t new then.

Quit making new accounts. I’m tired of blocking you over and over.

You are actively making the fediverse worse.

It’s weird, but not NEARLY as weird as your obsession with age-gap relationships.

How many accounts are you going to get banned on this question?

You’re clearly looking for validation, not explanation. Off you go.

Yeah, it is.

All people face risk in one way or another. Some willingly take on risk to help others or for some different reasons.

First off, being a cop isn’y nearly as high risk as (say) logging. Do you shrug and say “oh well, they knew what they were getting into” when a logger dies? Or a nurse?

Some will point out that ACAB, but even if that’s true, being a bastard isn’t a comprehensive deacription of a person. Humans, even shitty and broken ones, are complex creatures.

Personally, the only people whose deaths I don’t mourn (or at least have empathy for) are those rare monsters who are so sadistic and evil that they barely qualify as human.

Empathy for others, without conditions, is one of our most defining and best traits as humans. It’s worth cultivating.

Shorts are tge default at around 18C, and absolutely necessary at 25C+.

If you come in asking a question and then tell everyone who disagrees with your expected answer that they’re wrong, you’re acting in bad faith.

“Oh, Mrs. McGraw” the sergeant said, “Would you like to make a soldier out of your son Ted?”

Man, you’re WAY more charitable than I!

In 2016, I offered formal asylum to a few dangerously leftist US friends of mine.

This time 'round (2024) I publicly revoked it. I’m done with the country as a whole. They need to stay there and figure their shit out.

You might want to specify a country here.

We know where you are, but you’re not the centre of the universe.

Modern conservatism is based on fear and hatred of the ‘other.’ “Immigrants” (brown people with accents), gays, ‘wrong’ religions (mostly those practiced by brown people with accents), etc.

Your grandfather is scared of them, and hates them for making him scared. It’s rooted in racism and phobias. No justification from him will change it.

As you get older, you will have the option to agree with him, ignore his behaviour for the sake of family harmony, or aggressively reject his beliefs - which will potentially mean rejecting him. Choose wisely, and keep your compassion alive.

Where did this ‘never wash your jeans!’ mentality come from?

It feels like jeans - regardless of designer or ‘raw denim’ status - were clothes until about seven years ago, then they became fragile and precious jewels.

News flash: if you’re worried about washing your jeans, you’re inventing problems because you have none of your own.

Alberta checking in. Jumped from $1.31/L to $1.52 overnight. (That’s about $3.65 and $4.25/gal USD.)

Don’t think of them as fruits. It’s more like a very rich, creamy vegetable.

By itself it has a mild nutty flavour. When ripe enough to mash, you make guacamole (tonatoes, onion, salt, and freah lime juice) and it becomes amazing.

But on its own, not groundbreaking.