I held onto Windows 7 even a year or two past so-called the EOL. I had a pretty powerful rig and I wasn’t going to pay money to upgrade. Then I think Microsoft just gave Windows 8 for free?

I finally got on Windows 10 when I bought a premade gaming computer. Still not upgrading.

I blame all the satire.

It didn’t just go over their heads, they took it as truth and ran with it.

You know, I didn’t pick up that he was pointing that out too. George Carlin still hitting us from the grave.

American here. Maybe I’m going through the five stages of grief and now I’m at acceptance.

Everything in your first paragraph sounds accurate and maybe something that probably needed to happen. America as the World Police is/has been a problem. There were some positives, but a lot of negatives.

The sooner America gets off the stage, the better. We don’t deserve the recognition. We can’t even feed our own people and yet wield tremendous influence internationally, and maybe it’s a positive thing that it ends soon.

I went to a small town recently and this was it.

The small “boutique” shop absolutely has a Karen-looking gal who was selling things from Temu but with her sticker on it.

Real sad state.

Well I mean, it’s usually one company making 23 bagel flavors. Look at toothpaste. There’s Colgate and then 15 Colgate variants. But if we go higher, the parent company owns 2-5 toothpaste beands, and those toothpaste brands have multiple variants.

And then we go even higher, and those parent companies are actually owned by the same group of people.

I mean if we want to get real about it, do we really want that fake choice either?

I like that a lot. Don’t know if it was a expensive concert but I like going to shows where the ticket price is cheap, and the musicians tell people it’s a work in progress.

It’s weird. I saw Wheatus perform recently and he did a bunch of songs I wasn’t familiar with. Then he played his most famous song, “Teenage Dirtbag”, that they made in like 2000.

The band is like grandparents age, singing a song about teenagers. And it was incredible.

I’m sure it’s some psychology name to it.

Thinking through it from my perspective, it’s because we put up barriers with anything new.

First thought: “Does this fit with what I know this musician for?”

Second thought: “Does this hit the vibe or energy I want?”

Third thought: “What is the hook or thing that makes it memorable?”

If any of them fail, I immediately feel disgusted. Not to say I won’t change my mind.

Sucks and sorry to hear that. Hope it works out

My 12yo niece asked me if I wanted something from the store. When I went to hand her cash, she said, “Just venmo it”.

Made me think about when we get even closer to digital wallets everywhere and little kids lose their teeth and find a credstick under their pillow.

You okay? Your other comment is also concerning.

This is the reality. Every company has that one thing you will hate.

But if you’re looking for the place that hits everything you want, that’s a unicorn.

Lincoln Project threw down some real great material.

Of which Elon is just African pretending to be an American.

Can confirm.

I haven’t purchased a game at a GameStop in decades. But I’ll never forget the time a cashier was getting yelled at by a shitty teenager because the teenager felt conned having preordered a JRPG thinking it was a First-Person Shooter, and the teenager was throwing empty game boxes around calling the cashier all sorts of 2000’s era offensive names.

I don’t understand the full story but I think about it often.

Why? Maybe the mom shouldn’t be buying her kids things she doesn’t understand.

Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, making it literally impossible for him, even telepathically, to say that quote.

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Kid doesn’t deserve cod

Members tend not do their own research and only live to complain about the existence of it.

But then

lets me know to look for certain things on the article before I enter so I know if I should take it with a grain of salt or not.

You are talking about yourself in the first sentence.