Remember when every piece of Window$ software back in the day tried to get you to add their browser bar to your web browser?

Oh god, the browser bars.

Years back, I was fixing my grandpa’s laptop, and he had one of those browser bars in his Internet Explorer. Out of habit, I disabled and removed it (since they had a tendency of installing themselves). I finished up, hung out with him and talked for about half an hour and left, and when I got back home I found my mom on the phone with him. She immediately hands the phone over to me, and he sounded uncharacteristically livid. He tells me that I “broke” his email and he can’t access it anymore. So I drive all the way back and it turns out he was using the deleted browser bar to access his email. Even after trying to explain to him that he can still access it by going to a bookmark or just typing in the URL, he insisted that I put the browser bar back on. So I do.

That was probably the last time I ever helped any family member (outside our house) with tech issues.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but smart TVs were a bit cheaper than “dumb” TVs at one point, since the cost of the TV was subsidised by all the streaming platforms that paid to be included on the TV manufacturer’s OS, and have a customized Netflix or Amazon logo button on the remote that opens their app.

I don’t know if this is done anymore since there are hardly any dumb TVs out there being made now.

I admit, I took the bait for a while and subscribed to a few streaming platforms. A few bucks a month to not deal with the inherent risks of pirating, or headaches trying to find a bootleg stream that works? Why not?

Then came the price increases. Shows abruptly moving to other streaming platforms with little to no warning. Ads with tiered services (“pay $10 more to see just two minutes of ads instead of five!”).

Suddenly pirating started to look good again.

I used to do that at the Burger King that was next to my old house. I’d prop my laptop up by the window the faced the restaurant and start downloading.

Then at some point they added something to the WiFi that, after you’ve been connected for like 30 minutes, disconnects you. You wouldn’t be banned or anything, it would just cut the connection until you go back to the captive portal and click “I Agree” again.

I feel like a lot of public WiFis these days have data caps and throttling to circumvent downloading.

A “vegetable” is simply any edible part of a plant. Fruits can therefore be considered a subcategory of vegetables.

If you really want to get into the nitty gritty, an ear of corn is botanically a fruit, since it’s the seed-bearing body of a plant. But nobody in their right mind would consider corn a fruit.

Reminds me of all those MGTOW (“Men going their own way”) forums/subreddits that were ubiquitous 10-15 years ago. Half of the posts were “Is it manly/unmanly to do [thing]?”… like literally unironically doing the “Fellas, is it gay to…?” meme.

Nothing says “going your own way” like seeking approval from others, let alone Internet strangers.

Florida is also densely populated compared to other similarly sized states, around 135 people per km² (US average is about 37/km²)

Why do people do shit like this lmao. I mean I know gas stations gouge the hell out of you to use the air compressor but using FAF to top off your tires is… an interesting way around it.

I’m surprised they could even put anything in the tire even after the first treatment. FAF by its nature seals holes, and usually the valve stem gets clogged as a result.

I can’t imagine it being good for your wheel balance either. But if the ride is smooth then it should be good.

Auto mechanics hate Fix-a-Flat. I speak from firsthand experience taking off a tire that was full of the stuff.

In my first field IT job, I had to use a dock that had a parallel printer port that we used to configure and troubleshoot the ancient line printers the company was still using. Those docks barely lasted a year and they would just straight up quit working no matter what computer you plugged them into.

White House to prison pipeline.

I never got why they don’t attach these flares to some boilers to generate extra electricity or heat homes in the winter. I mean I know that creates problems of their own and it would still do nothing about the CO2 pollution, but it makes a little more sense than simply burning it.

You mean plutonium doesn’t look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?

Nuclear armageddon almost never seems to happen at night in movies and TV shows. It’s always during the daylight.

The only exception I can think of is Threads, where the missiles start flying when it’s like 3 in the morning in Washington DC, and even that happens off screen.

I’d be for it if they were the only ones who get affected in a crash. What about innocent people who might get hurt from a 90kg projectile? Or the people who have to mop up the mess?

“Nothing will fundamentally change” was the truest thing Biden ever said.

I “love” when a show like Law and Order has a scene where the cops go to arrest somebody who is later proven to be innocent, and it’s always at their workplace, or a busy family function, or a restaurant. The cops proceed to loudly accuse the person of the heinous crime right in front of their friends/family/neighbors/coworkers.

Then later on, the actual perp is arrested and no mention is made again of the innocent person they practically eviscerated in public or in front of their loved ones.

It’s like these shows exist to subliminally train you to passively accept cops treating you like shit, even if you’re innocent.

Lmao eat it loser.