Tarantulas are insects ferchrissake… They have the nervous system of a guitar amplifier.

I’ll tell you a story:

One summer, I went on vacation in Europe. I rented a car and hopped from friend to friend, touring around.

When I came back, one of my workmates asked me:

“So you drove quite a few miles! How did you cope?”
“What do you mean ‘cope’” I replied
“Well, Europeans drive on the left. Wasn’t it confusing?”
“W…What?”

Turned out, the dude was totally convinced only Americans drove on the right.

Americans are fucking clueless about everything going on outside of their country, and largely clueless about what goes on inside of it too. They’re honestly shamefully ignorant.

I know it’s hard to believe, but in a majority of places on Earth, water is readily available.

Nope. They’re headed straight towards jackboot dictatorship.

If nothing else, Trump and his henchmen are proving day after day that the Americans talking big about their god-given Second Amendment right that keeps the government in check as the reason to own so many firearms and overlook so many deaths by firearm was basically a pretense: this is literally the scenario when they swore right and left they would exercise it and they aren’t.

All a bunch of phoneys, is what they are. And they’re getting the nasty dictatorship they richly deserve.

Remember: AI chatbots are designed to maximize engagement, not speak the truth. Telling a methhead to do more meth is called customer capture.

This raises the question: why do you keep coming back? Do you enjoy being abused?

Er… duh.

Facebook’s entire business model consists in invading as much of everybody’s privacy as possible and monetizing people’s private data. Its “products” are just honeypots to attract marks to milk for private data. You didn’t really think they turned a profit selling electronic sunshades did you?

If someone is stupid enough to buy a pair of those and put themselves under surveillance by Facebook, it’s their problem. But if I ever see anybody looking at me with those glasses on their face, they’d better remove them pronto when I ask them to or I’ll become bellicose rather quickly.

Nah. I just miss my youth.

Come to think of it, I miss school and I miss the military. They were both godawful, but I was young.

Don’t.

Because what he left out is that for those 5 minutes of peaceful enjoyable smoking, you have to endure the rest of the day craving, smelling like dog shit, getting an earful from your supervisor at work because you’re constantly out for a smoke, spending your life’s savings at the tobacconist, and driving 20 miles in the middle of the night to find a pack of smokes in a convenience store in the middle of the night when all the other stores are closed. Not to mention long term health issues of course.

That’s an expensive 5 minutes of enjoyment, trust me on that one.

The smell of leaded gasoline.
The smell of a fine cigar: I quit smoking 14 years ago but I miss that.

And I’m 200% sure they were awful.

Silly bunny… The social media platform of choice for Nazis is Twitter.

Ms-13, Isis, Blm and that was fox news

E-xactly.

All it says is that his physician is afraid to lose his job. Or be send to a Salvadorian concentration camp perhaps.

Americans should be concerned about Trump and his goons first and foremost - the “homegrown” criminal gang.

Seriously, had you heard about MS-13 before Trump?

Well they’re right: it really feels like 1934 Germany right now.

Just because people like being abused doesn’t mean it’s not abuse.

Developers get shafted pretty hard by Apple, if nobody else.

What the hell rock have you been living under? Apple has been an abusive walled garden for many years.

Google does not automatically mean bad

Yes it does.

Google does everything with an angle, and that angle is putting you under surveillance and collecting monetizable data on you.

Google has (or had, maybe?) fantastic products. They’re truly great! The translator, the map, Youtube… But they’re great for exactly the purpose of luring you into using them, so they can abuse your privacy with them.

Google products are trojan horses: they’re irresistible but their true purpose is nefarious.

He who cares about privacy even a little bit and uses Google DNS servers doesn’t really care about privacy.