I can plug in a USB drive/cable on the first time, successfully, without flipflopping the connector (and then USB C had to come along and invalidate my only worthwhile achievement)

Yep.

Its an act of pure vanity to spend hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to forcefully conceive a child when there are so many children out there, desperate for a loving home.

also they just live longer.

outdoor cats average…what…5 years? Indoor cats can get to 20. a lucky few even more.

Are the cats wanting to be outside, or are they just wanting to be away from you?

Cause I’ve never had a cat that wanted to be outside. Sit in a window and watch the world, yes, but as soon as you give them the ability they ran and hid.

i just want to wear bog standard briefs. I need support, but i run hot so i dont want extra coverage, and i also don’t want buttfloss.

because theyve been laying groundwork and slowly infiltrating every corner of our society for over 50 years.

The slow burn was for purpose, to keep people from noticing, and so that anyone that did notice and point it out would look like a crackpot.

and, imho, I think they didnt expect the opportunity trump presented globally, in his first term, but they chose to come out of the shadows and try to exploit it regardless, which is why they’ve had the stumbling blocks they have had that has given opportunity to fight it.

If people were smart enough to listen to informed opinions, and listen to facts, they wouldnt have become antivax in the first place.

Yes, People are stupid.

They rather believe one discredited doctor that lied because he had a vested financial interest in selling his own product over the competition, and a washed up worthless husk of a failed playboy model, over their own personal history of being vaccinated, their doctors assurances, and the global medical community insisting on them not only being safe, but urgently critical to have.

Americans are some of the most stupid, and most easily propagandized people on the planet. Especially conservative Americans.

you cant. cause someone will have to own the hardware, to install it, to pay the bills and maintenence. So someone will always have critical control over some part or another.

and that wont go away until we become a Star Trek utopian society… and given the way things are in the world right now, we’re going in the exact opposite of that.

I’m American.

I dont have the money to stockpile anything.

And thats fine. You are entitled to your opinion, and your opinion is based on actual things.

As long as you don’t denigrate and insult others for using it, or try to pretend you’re the superior linux hackerman for not using it, You’re all good.