Um.

Supercritical? No it’s just sitting there.

I’m going to agree but also point out that this notion that Facebook is somehow the coalescence point for the world’s jackasses is totally delusional.

The world is filled with morons, spend 5 minutes on any platform and you’ll see that.

There is nothing special about the younger generation and the apps they use, they are just as fucking ignorant as the Facebook users. I mean really, spend a few minutes on any social media app and you are bombarded by the pointless thoughts of every jackass who’s ever felt they had some magic idea they just need to share.

No

An absolute nightmare, of exhausting, monotonous, merciless driving. It’s just an endless cascade of up and down s-curves, blind turns, narrowed roads, washed out bridges. All you see are 50 trillion jackpines flying by. And rocks, so many lichen covered rocks, all identical but for the random vulgar graffiti.

We have many bumpers that stickers that say “Winnipeg - we were born here, what’s your excuse?”

We have this famous area called Garson, where the Garson garter snake balls roll around in their mating routines. Garter snakes are very thin, like than a pinky finger and harmless

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Didn’t realize this would be of interest! Here’s a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcisse_Snake_Dens

I don’t know what the deal is with Garson I think it’s the town? Weird that I live here and I don’t really know the details, everybody just calls them to Garson snake pits. A bunch of snakes rolling around in a mating ball is not on my list of things to care about though

I live in Manitoba. I could not hit the up vote fast enough.

Guys have you seen our fields? We got fields.

Yeah living here is dull as fuck, but here’s a great story, I was driving on the highway 30 years ago and I saw a man stopped and staring out into a field. I had assumed he had car troubles and was staring out into the field in exhaustion, and I was stopping to be compassionate. He explained that he was visiting from China on a conference, and he had opportunity to rent a car. He was just staring into the canola fields, because he had never seen anything like that in his life - his reality was living in a highly congested city where a postage stamp of sky was visible for 18 seconds a day behind the smog & skyscrapers.

With vanishingly rare exception, addicts choose the mood altering substance that is closest to what the medically accepted treatment for their underlying disorder(s) would be.

People who are addicted to alcohol, without exception, have an underlying anxiety disorder.

People with ADHD and similar brain functioning tend to choose amphetamines.

The list goes on and it gets very complicated, because most mood altering substances have multiple effects, and most people have a blend of underlying issues. But the point is, there is a very noteworthy observation there, I feel.

I feel qualified to say this as myself I am 11 years sober and have worked in the field of addiction for 8 years and I’m formally educated.

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My mom basically found herself as the person who fixed printers at the school at which she worked, and this was before anybody had much of a clue about computers (our family was kind of ahead in tech).

She ended up getting some free “MS tech net” subscription which I used, it was just as worthless as the public facing stuff. I will say though, back when having real ms software actually meant something, having access to infinite license versions of most of their stuff was pretty cool.

Omfg, and let us not forget that it was the world’s biggest knowledge base containing precisely zero quantifiable knowledge.

No, there is no reason to be eating that trash, that hot candy masquerading as food. And yet people will continue to do so, because they are addicted to it. That word carries a lot of stigma, but it’s the fact.

I can even understand the geographic lack of knowledge, we all know that public education in America is extremely poor and the reading level of the average American is grade 4.

But the appalling part of this interaction I had, was coming to understand that they literally believed that the minute we crossed the political border back into Canada, the green grass, the sunny skies, the flowers all disappear as though it’s a game loading transition… and the landscape transitions immediately into a glacier-covered hellscape.

No amount of geography education can teach people how to think.

Truly aggressively stupid people. I live near the border, when I was younger we visited a town that’s honest to F a 90-minute drive away. There we had a conversation and a local restaurant with a group of people who were completely astonished to find out that we as Canadians have cars, we do not dog sled, we do not live in igloos…

These people were not faking or trying to be funny, they literally did not understand. Again… 90 minute drive away.

Really? Wow. I have no way of really knowing for sure but I am pretty convinced that they reached maximum saturation of their user base 10 years ago… That’s why there was this sudden whiplash pivot to forcing Indian, Pakistani, and the European content to the front page.

I saw that as the indicator that the North American market had been penetrated as far as they were going to penetrate, and they were looking abroad.

Now with what you’re telling me it’s making me question reality, I don’t think there’s a person on the planet that isn’t aware of reddit, I think people just don’t want to use it anymore!

Question, where have you noticed these advertisements?

70 year jokes old are the best

A mild realization just hit me. Reddit used to come up in daily conversation, even with randos. Now when I mention it nobody even knows what it is, and those that do remember it… speak of it only as this vague place they used to go years ago. “Oh yeah I remember reddit”

E: fyi I’m talking roughly circa 2008-2013 when every last bricklayer, sewer technician, and 7-Eleven worker “found” the platform

User is just lonely, this has nothing to do with anything they have experienced, and the screenshot is just a regular diagnostic

In some ways it’s no more crude than looking at it, right?

Will these TVs throw an error if the Wi-Fi chip ihas been physically removed?

I’m taking apart a thousand tvs, but never bothered fooling around with the Wi-Fi boards… Never felt I had a reason until these days.