Am still shocked at this part... "Biologists have found them at altitudes of up to 4 km"
Do you realize what this implies? One day a spider got bored and he decided to see how high he could fly... and he went 4 fucking kilometers in the sky...

Only if you wear a red shirt.

I always wondered whether I had a fascination with all this because it's something excitingly forbidden, or because I have a freaking pyromaniac asleep inside of me.

I don't know about you, but I bet half the kids I met would fail the Voigt-kampff test, and fail it HARD. These kids are spawns of hell itself, and babysitting them is the last thing you will ever want to do...

A single key for the Lord Obama, in the land of the NSA where the shadows lie. One Key to rule them all, one Key to find them. One Key to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Well, what business are we talking about, here? Buying followers to fake the popularity of your page and discovering that those "followers" are fake? Or buying mailing lists stolen by blackhats or piled by crawlers?
Both cases look rather shady to me, and if someone get ripped buying drugs, he could do us all a favor and file a complaint and the closest police station...

Isn't this simply a tor/firfox bundle though? You could simply download it and check whatever blocked websites you want, if I understood correctly

Are you one of those lucky persons without a friend who feels obliged to tweet every plate she eats?

Tell that to Christians refuting Evolution, in their eyes if it isn't fast enough, it's not a law.

Well, evolution at work, I guess. if you'r stupid enough to lose your head, you probably shouldn't regrow it.

But... we are the enemy.

And then they wonder why people prefer porn to actual real women.

It's slashdot, we'r bound to have some basement-dwelling sun-haters around here somewhere.

It's sadly in French, but this very interesting documentary shows things like sexless couples in Japan. Where it's considered absolutely normal by some women to have sex only once a year.

Well, am not the oldest guy around here, probably. But I think there is a growing tendency now for men/woman to spend their time/money on things other than "Socializing". Quite many of my friends spend their money collecting figurines or video games or whatever, and though they are interested and in need of meeting strangers and the other sex, they prefer to keep such interactions to a minimum and find the whole "mating ritual" too complicated. (I admit that my circle of friends is composed of rather like-minded individuals). Hell, there is an entire movement for this, provided it deals more with the rejection of society's expectations.
So yeah, I guess it's impossible for the people aforementioned to live as shut-ins because there is no financial support from their parents for this kind of lifestyle. But they simply evolved now and kept their social interactions (and interests) to the bare minimum.
I imagine that if they had rich parents who allowed them to do anything, they would live as hikikomoris, but if those japanese shut-ins were forced to go out and work, they would still simply work and socialize to feed their own isolation, in their own little way.

I actually tried understanding why they do what they do, and I was met with an interesting answer, "Why not?".