Because now I know the difference and... I don't want to go.

Contrast this to Trump blocking disaster relief for California and Puerto Rico when he was President.

The day I can't get around youtube ads is the day I stop using youtube. I already refuse to use it on my mobile device or my TV, due to the ads.

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

Good. I hope they get the book thrown at them. Their stated purpose, which they put on their website, was the overthrow of our government and it's replacement with a junta with them forming 2/3rds of it.

Costco evening employee here:

Yeah, we check those at closing time. As well as behind the mattresses, the bathrooms and anywhere else someone might reasonably hide. There are generally people stocking stuff for 3-4 hours after the store closes and from 5 hours before the store opens in the morning.

There's a small window when the place is completely empty, but it's only from about midnight to 4am.

uninstalled Chrome a looooong time ago on my Win 10 machine

MJ was heavily abused physically and mentally in his youth. Being raised as a Jehovah's Witness fucks you up in a lot of ways so those of us from that era and background were never surprised at how he became a fucked up adult.

And to be clear, none of that excuses the things he did, but it does help explain how they came to be.

I'm relatively sure that the shooter will turn out to be someone who had a loved one suffer and die because they were refused health care coverage. This may turn out to be only the first of similar incidents.

If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.

That only just scratches the surface, mon ami. ANY celebration, except Passover, (which they refer to as the Memorial) is evil and to be rejected. On top of that, the JWs underwent a major shift around 1975. Internal discipline was ramped way up and overall the religion went to a "Armageddon is coming any day" footing. Children as young as 3 were told that the End was coming soon, and it could happen next month, next week, tomorrow, or an hour from now, and if they weren't obeying the teachings of the faith that they would die in a fiery apocalypse

This message was repeated to them multiple times a day, with parents being told that they would be held responsible for their children as well. If child was found unworthy of survival at Armageddon, so would they.

Every single waking moment was viewed as a moment to demonstrate faithfulness to the teachings of the Governing Body, every single opportunity to attempt to bring in new worshippers had to be taken. If not, you risked death.

And this is without mentioning that all JWs were expected to have as few contacts with non-believers as possible, except when preaching to them. No friends outside the faith. No relationships on any level with anyone who wasn't a believer. From the oldest down to the babies, you were supposed to have only absolutely necessary contact with those who weren't JWs.

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

Frankly, I don't care.

I'm going to keep using Windows 10, updates or not, until I absolutely have no other choice, hoping against hope that the cracks in the Recall/AI monolith with have spread wide enough that a future Win 12 or 13 won't have them in it. I don't run a business. I don't keep sensitive information on any internet capable devices and my work uses the AS400 system.

I know Linux is a thing, and about a dozen years ago I spent a year using Ubuntu exclusively. While appreciating the OS, I got tired of chanting magic spells at computer every time I wanted to use software I liked on it, and so went back to Windows.

These days, despite being a reasonably tech savvy person approaching 60, I'm getting to the point where I'm just not up to learning/relearning an OS unless there is a critical need, and using Windows 10 there just isn't. At least not for me.

It's also called being ready for anything. It's what you do when you aren't entirely sure what the idiot on the other side is going to do.

The world's best swordsman isn't afraid of the second best swordsman. He's afraid of the world's worst swordsman, cause he can never be sure what the idiot will do.

Same principle.

Let me put this in a way you can understand:

Death to Putin.

Death to his generals, his officials, his administrators, and his bureaucrats.

Death to every member of the Russian military on Ukrainian soil.

Russia will never know peace until it leaves Ukraine in peace, for even if Russia were to conquer the land, still would the people fight on.

What they did to that developer is why I quit reddit and refuse to go back.

I'm one of the returns clerks in a Costco. First thing we do every morning is process stuff to send the food bank. It irks me how much stuff we aren't allowed to send because the manufacturer won't allow it. Even despite that we send a lot every day. Everything that does spoil at the food bank goes to a local pig farm, who donates pig products back to the food bank whenever he can.

Can you imagine how it would be if PP had won?

Also, we'll refund that kayak for any reason. Including no reason

Source: I work in the Return to Vendor department of a Costco.