BeBopALouie

Yup.

Kids need an outlet or they look for the real thing, not in a good way. Let them have their sites. Like anything in moderation though or only net porn will get you off later in life.

Good for you! My wife is 42 and I am 67. We have been together for over 20 years now and are still happy.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers

3 x fast

Already happening, the orange monstrosity has taken over, call away.

He won’t listen. The only way to get them is through the pocketbook, don’t go to any AI slop movies.

FidoNet was the gateway drug.

A Toft design, 8 wheeler. Custom bearings, wheel wells, lifters, extended trucks. Was made for me to go faaaaast down hills but I could also do most tricks as well. Helps when your friend has a skateboard factory.

Those were the days. Skateboard competitions, scouring the streets and malls at 3 am. This was my board. Custom design by Wee Willy Winkles in Canada.

Here is me back in the day riding it.

Me too. I upgraded my apple ][ clone to have 2 8.5 in drives for a whopping 1.3k or MB (forget for sure amount) per drive and ran a BBS/DND game for years.

I always think of this line from the Talking Heads which seem to be appropriate for these times.

“ Patience is a virtue, but I don’t have the time”.

I thought the body was made from stainless steel. Maybe that ruts in the ocean too?

Not even the body shell is not any good?

Strip out the bad stuff and drop them in the ocean and they can become reefs for fishies and their buddies?

I am not an american. All I know is if citizens just keep doing nothing the us will become just like the fascists in Germany did in WWII. It is up to them to do something or nothing. Time will tell.

Americans will just get mad post on Reddit and then go back to watching YouTube, Twitch in the hovel of their choice until ice comes for them and they will say no no not me you said it was the “others”. They are not watching the news. Bills to make furries the bad guys. Bills to make 2SLGBTQIA+ bad guys. Starting to grumble(by grumble I mean “we need to outlaw this stuff” talk) about what should and should not be on Twitch and other platforms. Grumbling about gamers and certain games. The list of buried stuff in the bills that are coming out is staggering.

They Came by Pastor Martin Niemöller

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

When Reddit went public it was scooped up by hedgies and other nefarious actors. Slowly but surely it is changing for the worse. I just got booted from Reddit on a 9 year account (as an added bonus they nuked my other 2 accounts as well even though no posts near time of nukage) for pretty tame (compared to other stuff I have seen) stuff. I predict that Reddit will be indistinguishable from truth social within 5 years or less.

or those of us that know who Bill Cullen is as we scroll to 1957.