[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

1990, through a local dialup university system that had security issues.

Within a few years after that we had home dialup internet.

In 1998, cable modems came to town. My neighborhood was the beta test area, so I had friends in my living room playing Everquest almost daily.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

It was an old dial-up multi user system that charged monthly fees. Once the internet became popular, Compuserve connected, but they predate the commercial home internet.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It's Joseph Fiennes, not Bradley Whitford. Had to look it up.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you, very detailed reply!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I dunno why you're being downvoted, but could you explain the differences, please?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Media has taught us that a first date involves drinking in a bar or restaurant, in part because of movie shorthand. (Dinner and drinks is a date, forget the rest of the evening, we just set the stage to imply the rest.)

As many others have said, your normal is your normal. Don't let society or Hollywood pressure you into dating 'their way'.

I met my wife on a date at a coffeehouse near here house. We then went to a pizza place across the street. No alcohol involved, but I did bring a board game into the restaurant with us.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I once got drunk when the wife was out of town and went around the house putting googly eyes everywhere. (My wife's fault for buying a bag!)

Definitely recommended. We were finding them for months because I didn't even remember where some were.

[-] [email protected] 219 points 2 months ago

The gish gallop has gone mainstream.

What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.

I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.

Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with "And who is currently profiting?" is and always has been beyond me.

...I'm not sure that's a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.

My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, "This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating."

For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.

Sorry, this probably isn't coherent but I'm tired and tipsy, and I've chosen to hit save.

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I was honestly curious if there was a link between the two terms, not a scientific one.

That said the number of participants in the study makes it a little questionable.

[-] [email protected] 151 points 3 months ago

All so that none of their tenants can afford any of those four things without constantly struggling!

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Left to right and actually sorted oldest to youngest we have:

Bernie Sanders is eight years old.

Miles Morales is just over four.

Abed Nadir & Troy Barnes are two and a quarter.

Maryjane is just over a year and is a foster fail. I'm the one that insisted on the failure. My dad adopted Mongo from the same litter.

Maryjane was supposed to be a Peter Parker but my wonderful professional vet tech wife was wrong this time.

Somehow everyone gets along in our house. 5 cats, 2 labradors, 1 tortoise, almost zero fights.

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Hey all, I'm a cis ally in the upper Midwest of the USA. I offered a room to Keris a while back and she accepted.

She got here Wednesday night and things are going very well. She likes me, my wife, and our cats and one dog, and is learning to tolerate the other.

She has an attic bedroom that is her space alone.

She has time to unwind and figure out what she wants to do without fear of being dumped on the streets.

I just wanted to let you all know that we have taken her in and that she is safe and loved.

[-] [email protected] 312 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until there are some kind of real penalties for submitting unconstitutional legislation, we will not be able to stop these clowns from abusing our state legislatures.

[-] [email protected] 147 points 1 year ago

He was an antivax conspiracy theorist who was convinced there was no Trump/Russia connection.

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I've been a fan of They Might Be Giants for most of my life and have always been surprised that people universally disagree with me on this.

Linnell's songs tend to be quirkier but also shallower. (State Songs is a good example here - there isnt a song for every state and theyre often abstract to the point of meaninglessness. I expected such a project to have more inspiration behind it.

I've always found Flansburgh's more melodic and thoughtful, slightly better composed, and with a superior singing voice.

Of course they're a great duo and they play off each other's strengths. I don't dislike Linnell at all, just the songs that he sings tend to not be my favorites.

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Said by one of my two DM friends to me while we were in a pizza joint together.

"Dude! Context! We are in public."

I have a bountiful life of riches. I run two games and play in three. Just a problem finding time for them all.

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