Given the spongebob comics being posted lately, I truly believed this was going to end with something heinous.

Just patch the Youtube Music app with Revanced Manager, or use NewPipe’s background play feature.

I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can’t remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.

I haven’t had that kind of stamina since I was 20.

Hit me up around 9pm so I can smoothly transistion from after sex cuddling and pillow talk to snoring in your ear and drooling on the pillow. Don’t ever say I don’t know how to treat a lady right.

I love the term terminated. Like did they fire him, or did they drag him out back and give him the ol’ yeller?

It’s not wrong, but I think it’s sad that this qualifies as a political humor comic. Honestly would have been better as a sketch and without whatever weird fill tool pattern was used.

I mean, that’s not even entirely wrong. That’s why his companies keep focusing on the “cool” stuff: making rockets.

My experience is that they’re still around in lesser numbers. You just need to know where to look. Personally it seems to me like most have moved into videogames and game lore spaces. Pretty sure a lot of kids call them alternate reality games now. Half a dozen new ones come out from the slowly dying garry’s mod map community every year. Also other games have used these sorts of puzzles too, like noita, elite dangerous, and risk of rain 2 that had its most recent dlc page on steam initially drop with no fanfare and entirely ciphered. Really cool stuff. Due to the connection with games it also crosses over with cheap jumpscare horror stuff like slenderman and five nights at freddys, so a lot of people consider it juvenile now, like the incredibly obvious hidden text in this comment.

Where do I invest?

That’s interesting dear. Have you finished your homework?

You know you have to finish your homewoek before you can play games on the computer or talk to your friends on the phone.

WOAH

As others have said, time. Also, the realization and repeated internal reminders to yourself that they were not who you thought they were.

It’s very easy to build up someone in your head to be better than they are and to fill in the gaps with positive assumptions, especially when you’re crushing on them. You have to realize that those fuzzy feelings were in your head. The feelings weren’t based off reality, and they obviously weren’t the same feelings in that person’s head. At the very least, those feelings weren’t based off the full person, because you didn’t know them fully.

The version of them you liked didn’t exist, because that version wouldn’t be (in this specific case) homophobic, ableist, hating special needs students, and making fun of you behind your back.

Yes, it may hurt to remind yourself of the reasoms they are shit, but it’ll hurt less than allowing yourself to pine for a “what could have been” that was based off a version of them that only existed in your head.

Glad a hothead like you is on the road so much. His insurance did what they’re supposed to do and your insurance did what it’s supposed to do.

Sounds like you should have pushed them for some therapy, because you’re right that the motorcyclist’s completely at fault. But his lawyer’s BS really shouldn’t be sticking with you like this.

Do you seriously think lawyers don’t pull that kind of shit in every possible case? I’ve got a relative who’s a public defender. Compared to some of what he can tell, that’s absolute beginner level stuff. Of course they’re going to reach for every bit they can, including your logs, fair or unfair. That’s their fucking job, and why most people hate lawyers. Prosecution’s purpose is to arrange every possible shred of anything they can grasp at that might convince the jury you have even a grain of culpability.

If you’re looking for more dystopian fiction classics, I highly reccomend Fahrenheit 451 (especially if you can find it with the afterword from the author that includes an extra scene he wrote a number of years after the book came out that is between the fire chief and the main character) and Brave New World.

I feel that together with 1984, they cover a wide variety of causes and methodologies of dystopia, which is useful because no one book is going to cover everything. 451 features a society that has effectively entertained itself into the state we find it in, masses desiring and ultimately pushing for the suppression of emotionally upsetting information long before the start of the story. Brave New World features a carefully engineered society where reproduction and ultimately the upper limit of a person’s lifetime ability are carefully constructed and engineered, where sex has been divorced from intimacy, and people are on strict drug regimens to regulate emotion and thought.

They still effect visibility under most post sorting options, lower scored things display lower. Matters in a minor way for scrolling through the subscribed feed.

Thank you for making content!

People have been calling 1984 prescient to the current time since at least the 1980s.

And everyone knows my personal theories of how those in power are planning to screw us over are the only valid theory. My mom said I am a very clever boy.

More seriously, I don’t think you’re wrong, but leaning on the authority of 1984 is bound to draw some banter.

I think part of the issue is that a lot of people who are aware of this know that it’s been happening for a lot longer than since Trump’s first election, and it’s not specifically a right wing takeover. It’s an overall consolidation of power into the hands of an ultra-wealthy few, and right wing is currently the most advantageous position for them to take.

This particular video is from 2018, a year into Trump’s first term, and it shows a large amount of local news stations that were believed to be spread across the political spectrum (at least for US run stations) all reciting the same exact script.

But the movements of Rupert Murdoch, or the Sinclair Media group, or iHeartRadio, or any of the many number of conglomerates didn’t just crop up overnight purely under right wing situations to support right wing movement.

Unless you really think Trump’s first election was some 5D chess thing, he was catching flak from all sides. Before that, the news media gave incredibly kind coverage to Obama’s involvement in the Middle East, his use of drones, his moves to further the rights granted to the US government and intelligence agencies through the Patriot act (started under Dubya, but expanded under Obama), the construction of illegal immigration centers during his tenure… the list goes on for him like it does for most Presidents.

The screws have been tighening for decades, this isn’t something shockingly new to present day, we’re just approaching critical mass.

Not seeing a lot of short ones:

• Sleezo
• Skunk
• Weenie
• Dogfucker
• Spaz
• Pork Rinds
• Shakes
• Depends
• Stank
• Gassy
• The Feet
• Cranky Pants
• Fussy
• Titboy

Speaking of hacks, there are ones to turn off the limited ammo mechanic of the light and dark guns. A lot of people seem to think that improves 2 a lot.

Edit: And using primehack to play it with mouse and keyboard would definitely go a long way towards making it feel more generic by giving it a more generic control scheme.