So that when the oligarchs assume full unchecked control of the US, no one will lift a finger to help the rest of us.

Believe it or not, also jail.

I dunno, BB was an outlier for me in that it kept getting better. We’re there some crap filler episodes? Of course. Did the story wander a bit? Sure. But I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.

It’s also worth noting that many of these shows from the traditional TV days were a once a week affair and weren’t intended to be binged. It was a different way of watching back then.

I paid for the lifetime pass maybe, 10 years ago? I dunno, it’s been a very long time. It’s still my primary. I’ve been trialing Jellyfin, but there are still enough quirks that my wife (non-techie at all) won’t put up with, so yeah. That, and Plex makes it too easy to share outside my house, not sure where Jellyfin is at with it. I appreciate Jellyfin for what it is though, it has a lot of potential.

Yeah, old 4chan was definitely something. You had some of the absolute funniest shitposting imaginable, right next to some shit that no amount of eye bleach and showers could cleanse you of. Like, it was fun every once in a while for shits and giggles, but it started messing with your psyche after even an hour. The casual racism alone was in no way ironic. And So. Much. CP; to the point where most of the images aren’t even worth a glance because there’s a good chance it’s underage revenge porn. I genuinely don’t know how that site is still up.

Nowadays it’s pretty damn tame, at least compared to how it used to be. And the wicked thing is, there are people who legit live on there, as in it’s damn near all they do with their lives, both then and now. I’ll go peek in every few months for a nostalgia trip, but I’m out after 10 min on average, it’s still toxic as hell.

And constantly forcing a particular set of values/viewpoints down everyone’s throats is exactly how we ended up in the situation we are in now. Promoting equity and inclusion is great and the right direction for society, but forcing people (especially conservatives) to turn on a dime is going to yield resistance, and taking it over the top is how people like Trump get elected. That is the culture war aspect even moderates don’t care for, the constant drum banging. If we keep the ante up for slow and consistent change, we’d be much further ahead than via social force. You catch more bees with honey, and it would take generations to effectively breed the excess amount of hate out of American society.

Better yet, backup /home to a separate disk and replace after install.

It’s because their entire identity is based on culture wars and politics. But those of us who are well adjusted, who gives a shit what color/orientation a protagonist is, as long as the plot has actually substance and the entire purpose of the story isn’t virtue signaling.

Old hardware used to get really upset before plug and play became common. I remember I was playing some old racing game with a joystick on a win95 box, and accidentally pulled the connector out, lost my entire game because the system flipped out.

You’ve… put some thought into this.

Points for creativity certainly, psych eval for execution

Looks like someone moved to San Francisco with some money and had “an idea”

Yeah, laws don’t really have any basis in reality when the current administration treats the like concepts of a plan.

How do you mean?

We really need a protest movement in itself to get rid of Elmo. Say what you will about Trump, but that dingus is far more dangerous than trump ever could be.

Yeah, I don’t think that’ll have the impact you think it does. This is something we Americans need to handle ourselves, and not rely on the rest of the world to do for us.

How dare those test companies be economical

Yup, that’s a good 8 hour drive for me as well.

I from Krakozhia, I go New York City, now.

The exchange rate is likely to be prohibitively stupid once all this gets rolling.