Hehe, 9 year old me teaching myself Turbo Pascal from library books in an effort to learn how to make my own computer games. I was shamelessly ripping off Battletoads with my own game called "Body Building Frogs"

That would certainly make it difficult to include then, hehe, thanks

The unthinking sheeple who remain behind, the lowest common denominator of humanity.... I won't really miss them, honestly.

Which only works with an educated and informed base of voters. Which is probably why the people who corrupt all forms of government spend so much effort in making sure we remain ignorant and misinformed.

It's not knowing what we want, we all know what we WANT, it's knowing what we NEED. We WANT to have more than anybody else (More money, more power, more ... things)... But it's not what we NEED. We need food, water, air, a safe place to sleep, love.

But we instead spend a bunch of time, resources and energy on things we don't really need, and convince everyone else that THINGS define our worth, that we can only be good if others are worse off. We promote greed and hatred. We APPLAUD that shit and then try to emulate it. It's not what we need though.

My parents don't believe in climate change because of their religion, which means they will NEVER change their minds.

"Well, the earth is only about 6000 years old, so all those numbers are meaningless because they're based on false assumptions...."

I tried telling them, "You believe in God, well, he gave you a brain, don't you think he wanted you to use it and maybe not take a couple thousand year old story so literally?" They weren't happy.

...or for that matter, when is the first time? Cuz... I haven't.

TBF, American Presidential elections are already pretty controlled to guarantee certain outcomes, given how only 2 parties are ever really given any sort of legitimacy by the media. Throw in gerrymandering, and voting fraud, etc.

@pixelpusher220 Awesome, glad I could help!

Democracies work when the voting populace is educated and informed. Unfortunately, humanity willfully avoids being either in favor of opinion and bias.

Funny how everybody who hated on us back in the day are all on board now.

I use snownews in Linux, and had just figured out how to subscribed to RSS feeds of Reddit subs a week and a half ago. Whoops.