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Probably b/c if they can’t monetize your data, then they choose to profit from you in other ways. :-(

Who doesn’t enjoy our annual, third of a year long Christmas-gasm!?

No don’t answer that, I know what you mean:-P.

Northeastern USA is extremely cold compared to temperate Europe.

Though that is nothing compared to north midwestern states, brrr… did you know that at some point, the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales converge? :-P

Similarly, Mac OSX is POSIX compliant and therefore more truly UNIX than Linux is, fight me. :-P

Nothing I have ever seen will ever top this image describing the year: https://daysuntilspring.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/81321947_3096760897007337_1939866200221679616_n.jpg

Not me, I’m th first one.:-)

It perhaps shows how successful the trolly experiment has been, playing its part in changing our cultural attitudes as a whole, since its’ purpose (lately, I dunno about originally) was to get people to realize exactly what you just said: that choosing to do nothing is still a choice. Sort of a “wake up, sheeple!” message.

Older generations like Boomers and especially Great before that were ignoring climate change and so much else - not having access to the internet, knowledge was more difficult to come by back then.

Today’s era involves different struggles, mainly against misinformation, but at least people more often have their eyes open.

Edit: NSFW video version from the TV show The Good Place that adds some new dimensions to the problem: https://youtu.be/DtRhrfhP5b4?si=zI6lV0G_VRhzjz97.:-)

A study on astroturfing on Reddit, written in the style of Reddit by an astroturfer - oh the delicious irony? :-P

If wishes were horses, then we all would ride.

As it is, instead we will FAAFO.

Not just right now - it was probably always that way. At one point those nations needed STEM e.g. engineers to win those (cultural) wars, while now we are gearing up to use robots and AI instead.

Even so, I think the loss of antibiotics is more of a short sighted side effect. It could need a century of development to overcome, but it is more profitable to sell pain relief right now so… it’s a problem for a future generation to have to deal with, so long as I get mine now, seems to be the way of thinking.

It’d be really funny if he had no idea who she was, cause she just grabbed some random stranger:-P

Fwiw, this meme is more than good enough:-)

Thanks for sharing it with us all.:-D

We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as “antibiotics” again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too…

It’s a good thing that people aren’t anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|

Interesting background reading!:-)

I think the entire concept of straight is wider than culture tends to portray.:-D

Yeah, I mean I am very straight, don’t get me wrong… But if he looked at me like he does her, I would not be surprised if my heart skipped a beat too!:-P

Well, yes there’s that… but also, he’s cute so, what are you gonna do?!:-P

Nice to have those extra vitamins.:-)

Kevin has altered the deal…pray he does not alter it any further.

Nev…