Well… in my experience it never went well. Every teenage couple where one or both went to Uni ended up breaking up before the year was out. SMS was relatively expensive in the 90’s/00’s, as was broadband - a lot of folk were on dial-up internet, which was also paid by the minute. So if money was a factor you’d go online, download your emails, disconnect, then draft all your replies, reconnect and send.

In fact, email was probably the preferred non-urgent medium between my peers until 2008 or so. SMS was more of a “hey, we’re headed to the bar now” kinda thing.

Letters were getting rarer and rarer - but one particular friend I exchanged actual postal letters a few times a year until 2012 or so.

As for family, my mum called me every week, and I never went more than 6 weeks between visits back home. Still don’t.

Downside with this system is if your birthday was o. a tuesday, it’ll always be a Tuesday. Having the occasional Saturday birthday is a good thing imo

As long as it’s small chunks, not whole rings

If you can remember how to disable this, please let me know

Reading LHOD at the moment! About half way through. Really interesting concepts

Good answer. Will have to check that out (only read Earthsea so far)

Pic unrelated. Apparently I had to add one before posting so this is just the latest pic I was sent.

So… by giggling at farts I’m not masculine? :(

I remember back when it used to be full of experts or professionals talking educated sense about things. Then I noticed the general standard dropping down to about my level of intelligence/knowledge - which is not great - and then sinking ever lower to the point it’s barely worth reading anymore.

Similar thing with Quora.

Sometimes, keeping things elitist is good.

Or just start talking in cockney rhyming slang; but making stuff up. That’ll Margaret Cho them off the Clark Kent

I think what this shows is that the idea of communism attracts the worst type of people as leaders. They enjoy being in charge of everything about a country, and/or can’t believe people don’t act the way communist theory says they would act under communism, so kill them for being corrupt traitors in order to fix the system.

Apparently about 70% as pleasurable and addictive as Cocaine.

Is it really down to shareholder demand though? I’ve a suspicion that it goes a bit higher than that.

I don’t think it was the message of love that did it, more the implied message of “Jews are no longer the only people with the right to heaven and god - everyone is”

The Jewish people who saw the value/truth of this message became Christians. The ones who didn’t like the idea of not being The Chosen Folk anymore were the ones who called him a heretic

As humans in civil society, we’re kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That’s the danger with becoming rich and/or famous… I don’t believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.

I mean, with that top I can let a bit of mystery slide

Apparently it’s not all that bad. There was just a lot of talk about how it was going to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWYToZQwjQ

Use TAILS on a USB drive, and keep the USB drive somewhere nobody would think of looking. Underneath the tissues in an open box, buried in a jar outside, or just on a keyring unless you’re worried about being taken in yourself

Definitely sends false info as to what kind of products you might like to buy, and maybe what kind of products are worth advertising on the sites you visit, but personally I’d rather send the message “I’m not at all interested, ignore me”

Doesn’t that mean even more agents will know what websites you visit?