Chrome on android, no ad blocker. Maybe they let you see a few articles for free eack month and you’ve hit your limit?

Weird I can see the whole article

I was just making a joke, but don’t doubt that you’re right. It’s a tough thing to measure as people aren’t always honest. Like if somebody took a poll in 1986 asking folks if they smoked weed, paranoia might cause smokers to say no

Premarital sex being taboo sped things up

Sears is still in business though i doubt it’s campaign donations amount to much

Goods Unite Us is a free app that tells you which political party companies donate to

Cheaper to buy a coconut

Shit, in the US you now gotta swipe a credit card to buy air. TO BUY AIR!

Maybe if we weren’t weird about sex, folks wouldn’t need to fuck a balloon.

Fuck Bannon just like fuck Michael Cohen

When you picture God what skin color do you see? What gender do you see?

Wut?

There have been no immediate reported deaths or injuries associated with the quakes.

There’s really not much there besides tumbleweeds and oil rigs

I don’t doubt you’re right nobody cares about the lowly pigeon, in fact some cities encourage nesting of raptors to keep their population in check. I do doubt any protected birds are allowed to be kept. Hawks are very common where I live, seeing a red tail or cooper’s hawk is a daily occurance where I live so I assume the regulations are for humane treatment rather than preservation. My friend and his son came across a dead bald eagle while hiking and they kept it as they had a large skull collection. I looked it up and as you said it’s against the law with very steep penalties so I advised him to make sure his son kept his mouth shut in school.

There’s a homing pigeon club not far from where I live.

I once went down a rabbit hole looking at falconry. In my state its heavy regulated, it’s probably the same with pigeons.

West Texas is sparsely populated if I’m not mistaken.

I got my first “home computer” for Christmas in the early 80’s. A TRS-80 CoCo with 16k RAM. After sending in the warranty information I started receiving nerd junk mail some of which I’m pretty sure I still have somewhere. One is an add for internet access from Compuserve. It cost $7 an hour IIRC. You had to use dial up and call long distance to Columbus, OH which probably cost somewhere around 50 cents a minute using my 1200 baud modem. Young teenage me couldn’t afford the luxury. I also received a slender book of websites. Domain names weren’t a thing so you had to know the ip address of what you wanted to look up. BBS’s were more accessible to me. Sometimes in the early 90’s I fumbled around on a computer at the library and saw weather forecasts and another time I searched Lexusnexus for an article about modifying hand held GPS units to increase accuracy. The public wasn’t allowed the accuracy the military had (US). By the time the internet caught on thanks to AOL I hadn’t messed with computers for ten years but picked it right back up now with a 36.6k modem. I know this is going to sound gross but I remember some of the earliest news reports regarding the internet were about pervs using it to share child porn. Does anyone else remember this? BBS’s were used by mob bookies to take gambling bets. IIRC the Supreme Court decided the owners were responsible for monitoring and preventing the mob from doing this. Obviously this was all quite awhile ago and my memory is fallible

Two things your graph doesn’t show you. Interest rates when I left high school were double what they are now. Also the unemployment rate was more than double what it is now.

A minimun wage construction job? Someone is lying to you. Dad was probably working the glory hole at kwik-e-mart. No bank is going to give a house loan to someone making minimum wage.

I can’t imagine why you don’t have a ton of friends

Funny how it never occurs to the folks who espouse the virtues of socialism and communism that they should apply those same ideals to their own life. Acting collectively was the way my friends and I were able to move away from home.