Met the woman who would one day be my wife on NWN. We've been married for 21 years this month, and she remains my biggest fan as a DM. =)

30 years? It's happening now. A significant portion of the homeless people that exist in this country are senior citizens who are too old to work and cannot afford housing. There are programs that are able to help some of them, but not all.

Both are correct. I don't see the Fediverse ever becoming as large as the billionaire platform for the precise reason that it isn't run by billionaires with gigantic advertising budgets. As such, the Fediverse will not have the large numbers of users and hence, will be quieter.

That being said, the Fediverse IS an alternative to the billionaire platforms - especially for people who desire smaller, more intimate communities and - perhaps most importantly - controlled and governed by the people who use it.

How are registered child sex offenders not legally barred from working with or around children in every US state? How is this not a law that already exists?!?!?

1. Introduce cutting edge tech to the masses, claiming it will usher in a new era of connection, convenience and utility.

2. Firmly entrench that tech into every corner of modern society so that most day-to-day activities SUPPOSEDLY cannot be done without it.

3. Slowly tighten the screws by removing user agency and freedom while raising prices.

4. Become obscenely wealthy from an entire generation of locked-in consumers who think they have no choice but to submit to your control over their lives.

5. Wash, rinse and repeat.

"If you don't profit from it, someone else will, so you might as well get yours."

Don't even get me started on how toxic and self-centered this is...

Any person who has ever told me to 'think with your head and not your heart' has always - without exception - turned out to be a major asshole who does a lot of harm to themselves and those around them.

It's very simple. We'll get rid of the pride flags as soon as they get rid of all the crosses. Fair is fair, after all.

Having worked in the retail sector for some time, I quickly learned that appearances are often deceiving after a few embarrassing blunders on my part. I taught myself to call everyone 'my friend'. I had no more problems after that.

Become a musician.

The Fediverse is decentralized, which means that it cannot (or at least it would be very, very difficult) be shut down by anyone. On an individual level, any user is free to start their own instance or community with their own rules in place should another instance or community become undesirable. If there is something you don't like or that is somehow stifling to you, start your own and make it the way you want it.

Me trying to hang out with literally anyone.

It's that whole frog analogy, where you can slowly boil a frog alive by gradually increasing the temperature by small increments.

Sounds like mom just took a hit of some gooooood shit.

I just use FreeTube. No ads, no logins, no tracking, no BS.

Fluxer appears to be the most promising, though it is still very new and they are working furiously to get it up to par with a tiny dev team that consists of two (three?) people. Most basic features are quite usable now, though.

At current grocery prices, I can afford to smell it. Does that count?

I've always found it humorous that in all of the movies I've seen, you never once see a musketeer use a musket. Just saying, it's odd.

I mean, even 'think with your head and not your heart' is perfectly valid under certain circumstances. It just happens to be used generously by people who are trying to justify doing harm, that's all.

I remember reading somewhere that there are officially more PC games being released than there are players to play them. Of course, if one is talking about the amount of quality games being released, then the number shrinks very fast.

*edited for clarity