The AIDS epidemic didn’t help that at all.

Neither did the mentality of… But it’s the gays disease, so let them die… Fuck you Reagan

First thing is gain enough support in the presumption that increasing userbase is a desirable outcome.

Chasing bigger numbers for bigger numbers sake is one of the biggest problems with capitalism

Having kids in the first place

Well some of us still prefer accuracy and or precision whenever possible. Doesn’t seem like a reason not to in this instance.

After the last decade or so, some of us prefer as much disinformation removed from our lives as possible.

I’m only half joking when I tell people the current state of the world is because Queen Elizabeth the Second actually died

…ide be happy with the end of the day if that’s at all possible

They can’t do the same clandestine shit the US dues though, us simply has had more resources for decades. Not just assets but resources for those assets to utilize. In some cases nearly limitless resources

And they are already everywhere.

According to some former CIA people the CIA does what the president wants them to do regardless of legality morals or ethics.

This president is a criminal already, he has very few if any lines he’s unwilling to cross.

And also they have an apparatus that was trained on 50+ years of cold war as the crucible to forge their current ability, another thing that can’t be quickly attained.

I honestly don’t know what they could achieve even if they went full throttle into your suggestions.

I probably should have phrased that differently such as “because we all watched Mythbusters?”

In my defence, it was late/early and I want thinking good

Watch Mythbusters

Yeah! I’ll throw an edit to this response later! Just got to an event and the edible just kicked in. Have a great night!

Make me feel like an the intrusive thoughts that Han my self esteem are exactly correct and I shouldn’t bother struggling against them anymore.

The point of no return for me was Bumble. Advertising a dating site that forced women to initiate interaction and continuing to get only silence in spite of paying for it.

Great I matched! Crickets

Rinse repeat until I feel like scum at the bottom of everyone’s shoes.

Who can’t liiiiive with or without you

RdR makes a certain sense to me that GTA does not. But thanks I also didn’t know that either.

Is that your hip or mine that’s creaking?

There are GTA roleplayers?!

Damn that’s not something I expected to be introduced to. Very different from me and friends creating costumes and larping in the woods. I might need a rocking chair and a porch if anyone has spares they want to donate. Do my knees hurt?

United my ass

Nope

I disagree with your entire take.

Hahaha my story is similar but not nearly as fun.

I went for a walk, back in those days “go outside and play” meant I don’t want to see you until the sun goes down, so I walked to strip mall where the video rental store we went to at the time was, as well as a few other places and a safeway we shopped at.

I was however old you would be between grade 2 and 5, and started playing with a phone. And kind yourself I thought you had to put money in it for it to work. I knew how to read and PAYphone seemed pretty self explanatory so I started pressing buttons pretending to call people. Well I had learned about 9-1-1 recently so I pressed those numbers and kept playing around. Well I didn’t have the headset near me but I did realize afterwards i did hear a voice though not what they were saying.

It wasn’t until I heard the sirens that i clued into why I was hearing them. I definately ran away thinking the cops were looking for me, so I ran into the bush where I knew some places to hide because of course the cops knew who I was and that it was me who used the phone without paying and they were looking for me to be arrested and that I was gonna go to jail forever if they caught me. They didn’t because I was so good at hiding if course

The reindeer is on its hind legs so that detail is fine. The hands on Santa though do suggest this is all slop

Golden Eye is underrated?! By who?!?