Until there are treats. Many dogs can be bought off.

That’s what happens when a wife is not allowed to say no and birth control doesn’t exist. Could also represent having sex only 15 times over 16 years and getting pregnant every time. My grandmother swore all my grandfather needed to do was look at her and she was pregnant yet again.

Maybe we should do this for ministers as well. Corrupt asshole would be my vote.

Sounds like the marketing department for energy drinks is your real problem, not the govt.

Yeah where I grew up if a kid did that, they’d be kicked out. If old enough to have a car, old enough to live on their own.

No this series deserves to be boycotted simply because he refuses to finish it. Authors should never ever start a series that requires an ending if they haven’t already sketched out that ending.

But not the US. I’m not looking up exact numbers but I’m guessing they’ve killed more country leaders than any other country in the last 50 years? Right now leaders on the top of the board for offing should be: Putin, Netanyahu, Trump. Could probably settle out then and see if the wars all over the world that those 3 are fomenting stop and reassess if any other leaders needed to be added to the list.

The concept of an NFT and the security of purchasing isn’t worthless. The fact that people with too much money bid up and purchased any old crap available as a NFT was and always is idiocy. That crap reverting to worthlessness when it wasn’t worth anything to start with is reasonable. Some people were able to make a ton of money with that hype. Same as they now are on AI.

Kinesiologist: We love people who do these type of stunts. They pay our wages for months.

Funny I thought it was the “the world is only 6000 years old” group that thought this was real for their ancestors?

If only Cuba had been the sole player in that saga. Instead of a pawn between the USSR and USA.

CIA help is my guess. Is there strife anywhere on the planet in the last 80 years that isn’t USA instigated?

3. Just leave that website and find somewhere else to do business.

Do we have Americans (no rules) vs Canadians (actual safety) going on in this discussion?

One of my pet peeves is how many new things do not come with a manual and I have to go and find one. I am one of the fortunate ones who can learn by reading and then trying. It seems that many cannot.

Personally I believe the world was a better place before the Internet existed. It was more personal, more local. The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet and are actively damaging the world for their own personal gain. Good mental health is almost non-existent for those who are always online - and that is a purposeful construct so that they will be online more and create even more revenue for the tech billionaires. The initial romantic notion that the internet would provide education and information and connection has been dwarfed by the damage it has caused. The most ‘internet raised generation - Gen Z’ is notoriously disconnected and isolated compared to previous generations. In short, if the Internet ceased to exist tomorrow, a decade from now the world would probably be a better place.

I really wish I knew that when I was in my teens and 20s holding down 2 jobs to barely make ends meet with 40% of my income going to my share of a shitty illegal basement suite’s rent and another 25% going to students loan payments at 12% & 15%, that I was a “have”. Eventually things started to pay off in my 30s and at 60 I might be able to retire at 65. It has felt like 45 years of continuous slog so it feels really off that some kid is complaining that after going to their ‘dream university’ and ‘travelling the world on cheap flights’, and ‘door dashing every meal’ with a ‘continuous supply of Amazon or Temu’ being delivered, is the hard done by one. Or maybe, not everyone in every generation is in the same predicament. I know plenty of people older and younger who have done exceptionally well and plenty who have scraped by their whole lives. If you buy into everyone older than me had it easy, you will never be happy in life. Every generation has it’s own struggles. Every generation has people who never struggled.

In today’s online messaging world, one person’s sarcasm is another’s opinion. Without /s it is very hard to tell which it is.

That must have been a US thing. A&W in Canada has had excellent Teen burgers for decades.

If anyone were really worried about privacy, all internet related companies would be in bankruptcy. Apple? Meta? Google? SnapChat? Reddit? You name it, their whole purpose is collecting the personal data of their users.