I use a Firefox variant and various extensions like Bypass Paywalls Clean (which is NOT available on Mozilla’s repository), and never see that crap. I don’t care what the extensions are doing behind the scenes to get rid of the crap because the law is a joke anymore (as proven by the current White House occupant) - if they want to go after you, then they’re gonna find a way to get you no matter what. They want lawlessness for themselves? Then I’m gonna play their game, too.

So, Netflix may still win in the end by getting them all in a fire sale! Yay, capitalism consolidation!

You want to get in touch with the TVA if you want to prune a timeline.

I’m not even trans, and I SO want the fuck out (just can’t afford it) - I can’t even imagine what those poor people go through.

He hasn’t killed anyone (yet… that we know of), so presumably there’s a chance at redemption somewhere down the line - especially when you consider the fact “never” is a mighty long time.

Anyone having seen the movie Real Genius will appreciate Kent talking to God.

They still exist? How did Trump miss them?

I ♥️ shitty memes.

The crossover that needs to happen! I don’t care if it’s an alternate universe one-off, because it’s bound to be fun AF (although I’ll gladly take more)!

The USA capitalist system effectively worships money more than God. It’s not a conspiracy theory so much as a not unwarranted suspicion about for-profit drug companies’ likely motivations and priorities. The only thing potentially keeping that at bay is the threat of someone else disrupting their cash flow with an actual cure - although that doesn’t prevent them from burying cures they find themselves unless it benefits them, or significantly disadvantages a major competitor.

If we’re talking Adderall/amphetamine salts, I personally don’t understand why it’s called “addictive.” When my insurance has lapsed, and I can’t get to a doctor to write the next month’s prescription, I have stopped cold turkey to preserve what I have for days I might really need to be on the ball (think job interviews or similar) with no symptoms of any kind of withdrawal (outside of being more lethargic/unmotivated and easily distracted as is my natural state).

I can understand considering it a problem that the effect weakens - requiring more of it to have as strong an effect as when you first took it, but that’s NOT the same as an “addiction” as far as I’m concerned - I have no overwhelming need for it, which is probably why people can forget to take them. I do find that being off of it for a while gives the first few times back on it a slightly stronger effect than it had been having when I stopped, although nothing is ever “as good as the first time.”

Yes, but there were so many different cable standards that you weren’t always sure you had the right one on hand. USB has been such a godsend that the young’ns will never fully appreciate.

Banana plugs are a thing, and might even have plugged into the hole on the RCA jacks (probably not as they’re usually too wide, but it’s technically possible… I think - never tried it myself). However, they’re single conductors, not dual like RCA plugs are.

ETA: And, yes - I’m aware of the recent Tom’s Hardware article you’re referencing.

Honestly surprised it’s that low a number.

I’m sure that word was chosen deliberately to add irony.

Before the mid-to-late 1990s, on the other hand…

Hey, at least it’s copper instead of aluminum.

You can see enough to tell it’s an I (in), not an O (out) - plus the fact there’s only room for one more letter behind the copper, as demonstrated by the hidden P in “TAPE” above. Having dealt with this sort of equipment enough in my life, those were really the only two possibilities.

Headphone jack is an output. The jack they’ve hotwired is an input.

Pretty much applies to any even vaguely large company.