If you answer wrong, what does it do? Refuse to show you any more of the program you are paying them to provide?

Oh wait, I know. It shows another ad, right? That’s gotta be it. We’ll keep showing you ads until you fucking pay attention!

Last panel: Why are his ears made out of beard?

Neither Medicare nor most health insurance covers hearing aids, or glasses for that matter. And it’s not like hearing aids magically make people able to hear like normal.

Not to mention that all the waiting rooms also have TVs in them, making noise. I really miss the days when you would go places and it was just quiet unless someone was talking (and it would be to someone physically present). The place I take my car for an oil change or whatever plays country music in its waiting room. It’s torture.

Same, if I’m walking around outside with it in my pocket, I don’t notice the vibration or even hear it ring over the background noise and wind.

Glad there are still a few out there. I’m surprised to hear it. When I was a kid, you could still get paper grocery bags. My mom would pop enough corn to fill one and we’d take a cooler with pop to the drive-in and eat all that popcorn, then we kids would fall asleep in the back seat.

Where are these drive in theaters you speak of? I haven’t seen one since I was a kid.

The real reason is that it’s competition for the broligarchs. They want it gone, thinking that all that traffic will come to their platforms.

That’s why there’s no chance that the govt will do what many in this thread are saying would be logical–ban the data collection and manipulation itself, not just one foreign competitor–be consistent, Meta, X, etc. should also be banned.

So regardless of how stupid people are for signing up on the Chinese alternatives, at least it’s good that they’re refusing to move to Meta, YT, X, etc. They’re deliberately not rewarding the broligarchs.

Many years ago, I offered a girl in my dorm to get high with me and to my surprise she got very freaked out and scared, which I had never seen happen to anyone before. And what we smoked back in those days was much tamer than what they have today. I had to sit with her and keep her calm for what seemed like forever. Really harshed my mellow (from my language in this post, you can guess my age 😄 ).

Point is though, yes–some people can have a negative reaction to it. Was it mj-induced psychosis in this case? I dunno, I don’t know the definition. I don’t think she actually hallucinated or anything, it was more like a major anxiety attack.

OK, I was gonna say it was because they don’t have big fat butt cheeks like humans but I like your version better. It’s glutes. Yeah that’s it, glutes.

Back when they were first able to federate (if you can even call their one-way dissemination of propaganda into the fediverse “federating”), my Mastodon instance didn’t block them so I moved to another instance that blocked them from the get-go. I wanted an instance-level block to keep their shit off the server completely, not just an individual-level “block” which is more like ignoring than blocking.

That’s why I try to be there for my son.

Then why are you sitting in a bar drinking?

(edit: wondering who is actually taking this seriously enough to downvote a joke about a joke? maybe I hit a nerve with the deadbeat dads?)

Hm, I’m kind of in between. I do this fairly often, not wanting to go out right when someone else is there. But I don’t know why, since as far as I can tell it doesn’t make me feel anxious to run into someone like in the cartoon.

It doesn’t bother me at all to cross paths with someone and I’m fine with saying Hi or just nodding to acknowledge their presence. Rarely does anyone actually try to start a conversation or anything. If they do say anything it’s probably just a one-liner and move on. And it’s easy to tell if someone doesn’t want to nod or say Hi as you pass because they stare at the ground the whole time, and I’m fine with that too, but I don’t do that.

But now I’m wondering, so why do I tend to wait until they’re gone? Is it really social anxiety? I don’t think so? I’m a loner but I have no problem or anxiety talking to people either. 🤔

Perfect! Those things look just like a dumpster too.

Thanks, when I saw the news I knew I wanted a good shot of it. Should become a great meme.

To answer the original question, it’s because the earth is very large and retains the heat from warmer times preceding the solstice in the water bodies and the ground, like a buffer, so there is a lag time for things to lose that heat and get to the coldest air temps. As an analogy, if you heat up some rocks in the oven, then turn off the oven, the rocks will still stay hot for a long time and gradually cool off.

What if it’s about some other guy named Brian? So stupid.

At one of my first jobs in an office, everyone had an ashtray at their desk and there was always someone smoking at any given time throughout the day. Same with the breakroom. Sometime around then was when they started making people go to the breakroom to smoke, then a few years later it moved to having to go outside, which just meant walking through the cloud of smoke surrounding the door to get inside. Well, at least one thing has changed for the better since then. 😄

YES. Flip phones were fine and were enough to handle all the problems mentioned about pre-cellphones. Calls, texts, voice mail. All the new problems mentioned are caused BY smartphones. If the meme showed a Nokia flip phone it would have been perfect.

If your package manager is apt, you can get a list of all the packages you have installed with

apt list --installed

There’s also a command to automatically reinstall all your apps from the list, I don’t remember offhand, but I usually just do them manually from Synaptic.

As other commenters have said, some people keep their /home on a different partition so you can reinstall or install a different distro without losing all your configurations (always back it up first anyway of course). But another thing I’ve done a lot is just have a different disk or partition with all my data files on it (called ‘data’ of course :p ), and I put a link to it in my home directory. So when I reinstall the OS I do have to backup my home dir and then copy it over to the new install home dir, but it’s small and just has my dotfiles and things.

Also on the data partition I have a backup subfolder where I keep a copy of any system config files that I’ve edited (usually found in /etc/), such as my pulseaudio config, so I can restore those.

And you can always try out different distros in a virtual machine or with a live USB before making the commitment of installing one on your hardware.