Sounds like they were in quite a pickle.

“I’ll give you $5 if you sniff it.”

Yup. You look through history and FAR worse shit has happened in the past, even the recent past. The present though is what everyone has to deal with and that is your burden to bear best you can. Like you said, you see this sort of thing go in waves.

I know this sounds like a pat on the head but you also have to count your blessings in life and not just obsess over the things that are wrong with it or you’ll always be miserable and never able to find any happiness. To say “everything is shit” is as unrealistic as saying “everything is wonderful”.

“Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment”

If there is anything history has taught me is that we repeat the same basic behavior over and over and have done so as far back as we can see. We are essentially very intelligent monkeys, obsessed with social status, manipulation, altruism and cooperation mixed with hostility and exploitation. I think the basic sociology of humans is baked into our DNA and the very nature of animal life. People have always imagined they can create some utopia on earth but it always ends up a failure because of the very nature of man and the impossibility of even defining a utopia for everyone.

If you are Elon Musk it is looking amazing right now.

Ah, defending no research. Gotcha

I’ve never heard the terms were treated differently. A troll was just called a troll.

Don’t talk to strangers.

Searching things is easy so don’t post something without checking it. People now don’t make the slightest effort to verify a rumor or conspiracy crap.

Unfunny, she asked if I was dating her because she had blonde hair. Well duh, yah part of dating is that you are physically attracted to that person but her accusing me of being that shallow guaranteed I wouldn’t go out with her again. “You are a judgemental shit.”

My date went to smoke pot with the band we were seeing (small nightclub)

Conversely why do we act horrified that someone in the past didn’t act according to standards that only exist today and pressures that don’t.

I wonder if they somehow think they will be able to manage it.

I don’t know why people get into meth and crack in the first place. They’ve heard all the stories and likely know people messed up badly from it already. “Hmmm, this is the drug for me!”

I think his point in this case is you own the physical item but not the information on it. If not then I could buy some musician’s cd then I could say “Now I own their music” and start selling copies of their cd, publishing it, stealing their rights to it, etc. I think we can all agree that would be bad.

Piracy by definition is stealing.

Dealing with SSL on windows is a pain vs Linux

Manage app startup and profile settings

Future generations will blame you for everything also.

Hey, he is supporting the massive FL mansion and mega yacht industries.

Ah yes, you breathe through your gut. Even if it did provide oxygen you’d burn through it in a few minutes at most.