Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.

I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect

Wild animals are wild.

I once rescued an injured duckling from our cat and nursed it back to health.

I fed and watered it several times a day while it convalesced. Each time I reached my hand in the box that tiny adorable creature thrashed its wings and bit my fingers.

After about 3 days I had had enough of it biting the hand that feeds. It was barely larger than a marshmallow but it was kicking my ass.

I decided it must be strong enough so I returned it to its mother, who was conveniently still in the nearby pond. It launched itself toward her and literally ran across the water to be reunited.

That part was touching, so I guess it was worth the effort, but I learned a valuable lesson. Imagine if instead of a tiny bird it had been a dangerous predator with fangs and claws

I just wanted to say, I enjoy your writing style. You very vividly illustrated your emotions

These algorithms are not solely based on the things you watch. I believe it’s also based on your location and even close contacts. So if, hypothetically, I live in shithole Trumpistan with my racist uncle and he likes watching Hitler Youth “own the libs” then YouTube will recommend it to me too

The internet got a lot less annoying after I learned how to use uBlock Origin’s “Enter element picker mode”

On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site

…Or to go first bright flashes in the distance

A very similar thing happened to me a while back. Mine was “only” a 10% pay cut but it was extremely demotivating.

Of course, since I was in the US I had no such thing as a tribunal

Yep. I’m on Debian for many years now. Every broken update I can recall was either caused by an undocumented PPA or nvidia drivers (which have finally been fixed, for my card at least)

PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds

Thank you for making me laugh so hard at the word “piss” 😄

This is the one I got. I wonder why they use different photos sometimes

Whoops I thought that was Veronica. I guess it has been too long since I played

Right? Also, isn’t she gay? I love Veronica too, but I don’t think she’d want to have my babies

They did have Rush Limbaugh crowing about smoking bans, but the lung cancer that eventually killed him makes it harder to take his advice

It’s the Swiss Army CHAINSAW!

Is it Dominic Turetto’s car from the first Fast and the Furious movie?

It’s also about making sure you can’t sue them, even if they did something wrong, even if they did it on purpose, even if they knew it was wrong when they did it.

Instead you must agree to “binding arbitration”, so that if you lose they get to learn what strategy works against customers, and if you win they get to learn what strategy doesn’t work against customers (but in any case the details cannot be shared with other customers).

Also, you can never participate in a class action suit, so even if they did do something wrong, on purpose, and you convinced a -judge- arbiter, you just get the $12 judgment, or whatever the value is of your actual damages. The corporation can keep the $12 they stole from each of their millions of other customers, who didn’t also start arbitration.

It is shocking that it is even legal

“an sequel”? Tell me I haven’t been saying it wrong this whole time 💀

Is this post a paradox?