Well, it’s quite simple really:

1. Kick has very little moderation. Pirate streams and gambling streams abound on Kick
2. The worst people who got banned from YouTube and Twitch continue to stream on Kick and who wants to be associated with that?
3. Kick is owned by a gambling company. Seriously think about it for more than 10 seconds, the service is entirely built on AWS which costs so much even Twitch which is literally owned by Amazon can’t turn a profit. Venture capital ain’t handing out free money to super unprofitable companies right now so they clearly are making money somewhere, and that somewhere is gambling

I heard Blink-182 being interviewed on NPR. We’re all old now!

NVMe drives are commonly produced in 128 and 256GB variants too

Yeah I never got passed the fire thing, or the egg hatching, whichever comes second

This is the trick. If you have any concerns about receiving the shipment, have FedEx hold for pickup

Having handled RMA disputes in a previous job if FedEx shows a delivery exception we’d generally trust that it was FedEx’s fuckup. Glad you could get it sorted one way or another but that really freaking sucks

When that was first making the rounds I shared it with my coworkers. Most of my coworkers enjoyed it for a few minutes then moved on. One of my coworkers sent me a teams message 3 days later of the win message

Nah then I’m bored at work, and I hate being bored at work. 70% is the happy medium between not overextending myself and keeping myself busy and engaged enough to both enjoy my work and impress my superiors

My tactic is to maintain an average workload of about 70% of my potential, that way I’m relaxed and able to maintain my work on the bad days when I might not be 100% up to the task, plus I have the extra bandwidth for when SHTF so I can look like a hero. Apparently my 70% effort is more than enough because I’ve now had multiple bosses try to court me to return after I’ve left roles

Truth is, he wasn’t trying to. Vance wanted to show off his zombie Jesus costume, but it turned out to be a killer costume!

(I just wanted to throw something in that isn’t the same jokes everyone else is making)

The worst part is it’s inconsistent! Sometimes it likes / sometimes it needs to be \ and every once in a while it needs to be /

Blocking VPNs isn’t really possible. You can block known IP ranges but ultimately there’s so many ways to encapsulate and encrypt traffic that no solution is 100%. I have specifically worked at places in which those in management positions are interested in sniffing DNS queries to “see what people are up to on company time” and those happened to also be the employers that were doing sketchy things that may or may not have been legal

I’ve seen a grand total of one influencer make a good argument for a VPN and that was Alan Fisher saying “have you observed your work skirting regulations that they shouldn’t be? Are you potentially reviewing legal materials on your work’s WiFi that your place of work might prefer you didn’t know about? To help avoid retaliation, you might need a VPN such as one from today’s sponsor…”

More like they operate a tollroad to the playground and are concerned about why there’s so many trucks of wood chips costing them much more to maintain the road to the playground. And OP freely admitted they’re taking truckloads of woodchips from the playground.

Except the analogy also doesn’t work because ultimately piracy isn’t taking, it’s just copying and sharing copies. There isn’t really a good analogy without directly describing digital distribution and piracy. Maybe an analogy involving a solar farm and a transmission company? Except that gets into technical details that are just as technical as just explaining it as it is

We are swiftly reaching a time where boycotting companies run by people you disagree with will negatively impact your ability to function. Consider abandoning this type of purchasing in the future.

Oh no please don’t boycott! The current boycotts are actually costing companies money and we can’t have people learning that boycotts can actually work!

When I was a pre-teen I asked my mom about it because I’d been playing The Sims 2 and figured out that your sims can woohoo or they can try for baby, and both look like the same thing. And of course 1 sim day after the lullaby jingle plays upon woohooing the female sim enters the first trimester, and 3 sim days later you have a new baby sim in the family. She was very factual about it all, but didn’t bother to talk at all about anything other than explaining vaginal sex. I had to piece the rest together from what I learned at school.

Fortunately I had fairly decent sex ed, except it was painfully boring and felt no different talking about human reproduction than when in highschool biology we talked about how plants reproduce (complete with extremely vague heavily photocopier-burned diagrams of anatomy that look almost entirely unlike what it’s depicting which we had to label) but they at least discussed condoms and birth control pills, and even demonstrated a condom on a wooden phalis when I was in high school so that’s a lot more than I’m sure some kids get

For my own kids, my oldest is 5 and has already asked. I’ve left it extremely scientific because she’s way too young for a proper talk in just explaining that a male secretes sperm that fertilizes an egg which eventually forms a baby. She wanted more detail but I had to leave that at “when you’re older”. I’ll probably have to give an updated talk when she’s 7 or 8 to make sure she knows about periods and maybe I’ll then go into more detail so she can be armed with knowledge should any boys take an interest in her (and statistically many boys have watched porn by age 10 which is terrifying)

I know it because it’s a copy of a comic I saw about a decade ago that I know for a fact was not styled like this

Edit: finally got more than the preview to load and I can now see that this is a riff not a rip Edit2: original comic

anus is a hole that connects to the face holes

Human is donut. Got it

Had that happen in a restaurant. I was at the opposite end of the packed restaurant from the restrooms. I got a lot knowing nods from a lot of folks as I walked through holding the very smelly child at arms length due to the amount of soilage at play

I read “stall oo” in my head pronounced like in “food” which is hilariously useless information for those needs