Ads suck hard, but avoiding them was just one of the plethora of advantages of early streaming. Early Netflix had what felt like infinite content, on demand, for a fraction of the price of cable. That's why the majority of cord cutters ditched cable; price. Avoiding ads was definitely a factor but it was hardly the main one for most of us.

The modern streaming industry has embraced ads in a way that feels somehow grimier than cable because the ads are targeted and we all know it's greed that's put them there.

Streaming killed cable though? Streaming was so good and reasonably priced I had no good reason to pirate. Now the streaming services are more jam packed with ads and as expensive as cable was, so it's back to the high seas for me matey.

You're the one who wants to know this fairly specific information, it's nobody's job to inform you. Look it up if you care.

Make sure to check if hospitals in your city/state have forgiveness programs. When my wife was out of work we were able to get 80% of the bill written off. I make $100k a year and still qualify for like 40% forgiveness just for submitting paperwork.

Besides McDonald's using shit ingredients, I disagree with your entire statement. Junk food is food that lacks nutritional value and is high in calories; making nachos at home doesn't make them clean food. If you make pizza tacos at home, they'll still be junk food too.

It's ok to have some junk food sometimes, but if pizza tacos are a daily thing for someone I'm gonna assume they're from a poop knife kinda family.

I'm from the US and this looks like absolute garbage to me, but I'd argue French tacos are an even worse food crime.

I'm a big time nerd and your joke was too nerdy for me, that's really something!

Yes, I'm taking about the lifetime employment part.

On the other end of this, Pokemon is still being developed by guys who can't develop in a modern engine and are just coasting on the popularity of the franchise. I have Scarlett and I got about an hour in before shelving it for other better games, and I was so into Pokemon I've played through about a dozen ROM hacks.

It always comes down to a lack of empathy with conservatism. Just completely unable to take a step back and look from a different perspective until it's a personal issue.

Then they'll have to let it go because abortions and guns are more important than a functioning society.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for three decades straight and I'm the average Republican.

I work in an industry where we use computers all day and this is painfully clear. I grew up with a mouse in my hand, shortcuts are hardwired into my brain. Watching someone right click them slowly move the cursor to copy, then right click and slowly move to paste, then slowly navigate to formulas then click refresh is brutal. It literally takes them 3-4x as long as it takes me to do the same task.

On the bright side, I only work about 20 hours a week and still outperform them, so thanks I guess?

Video games require you to listen to instructions, execute inputs, and follow tasks to completion to get a reward. Tiktok is basically swipe, watch for a few seconds, next hit; 85% of the clips will be shit but that 15% makes our monkey brain happy so we swipe again and suddenly an hour is gone and you've gained nothing but a shorter attention span.

I had an acquaintance ask me about my opinion on crypto a few years ago and I explained it only has the perceived value and is highly volatile as a result, and that all but a few coins were basically rug pulls waiting to happen. He was satisfied with that and moved on. About a year later crypto had roughly doubled in value and he gave me shit about bad advice (it was an opinion not investment advice) and proceeded to move $10k into some coin I'd never heard of. About a month later a mutual friend said the other guy had lost like $8k of his $10k investment. Next time I saw the acquaintance there was no mention of crypto.

Total Dan move. Hooked up with a carny, realized the head was so good because she didn't have any teeth. Dude should be doubling down and getting a second helping of funnel cake but he's running.

I work in the corporate side of retail for a large company. I promise you not a single vendor is absorbing the tariffs, but a few are getting around it by just moving production for the US market to other factories they already own in Southeast Asia.

These companies were already afraid of the Chinese government absorbing them and moved "headquarters" to Singapore. This isn't hurting them, it's hurting us.

Channel five is fucking wild. I love it.

Bald and bankrupt did a video that is much more in depth on the trail the illegal immigrants use. Anybody who's willing to go through that hell to get to the States isn't someone in worried about paying welfare for, those people got fucking gumption.

100% accurate. I ran a family owned grocery and the owners never shut up about payroll. As soon as I started managing a department it was "you're overstaffed" every flipping week. I explained my plan to use the extra hours to have the employees trained on how to make more prepared food instead of buying the premade junk. They complained and complained until the end of the second month when my numbers for prepared food in that single month grossed enough to pay for the extra staff need for over half the year.

They still complained I was overstaffed.

Vote in the preliminaries, where you can select which bag of shit you'll get to vote for officially. You may even end up with a decent choice on election day off your area is dope like NYC or Seattle.

What the fuck? Who deep fries their croissanterpillars?