It's great that the cure for PTSD is something as simple as money.

The car wasn't stolen, coward.

It cost him 5 minutes of his life, plus potential minor PTSD from nearly having guns drawn on you through absolutely no fault of your own.

No, but they can report you to the admins that can - and moderators' words weigh far more heavily than those of an average user since no one at Reddit wants to actually read every single report they receive.

I posted the phone number to a police station and got permabanned from all of Reddit for doxxing, so no - you really don't have to do a whole lot to become persona non grata on EVERY SINGLE HOBBY FORUM on the internet.

The solution is to pour lots and lots and LOTS of oil into the ocean. Since the oil tends to go on top of the water it'll press the water down, thus limiting sea level rise. Fossil fuels for the win again!

Free? In America? Hell nah, that's commie talk.

I disagree. Reading is like exercise for the brain. Saying that we don't have to read because we have tools to do it for us is like saying we don't have to walk around because we have cars. Sure it's true on a surface level, but the deeper consequences will get severe.

I'm sorry. While you're right and I agree, I can't help but feel that your disassembly of Universe is like a description of the first season of Battlestar Galactica.

It was starting to find its feet towards the end of the second season, which is obviously much too late.

It's really nice of you to let the guy live rent free inside your head like that.

Being happy you won is unsportsmanlike because it makes the losers feel like losers.

See how quickly you can get rid of someone with a conflict of interest the moment that conflict goes against the powers that be? Imagine if Anthropic were Trump shills, how long would it take them to get rid of him? Years? Ever?

Kids in particular like multiplayer games. You kinda do need a connection for those as local co-op long since went the way of the dodo.

Nobody has the necessary time or energy to be an independent thinker on every topic.

Let's say, for example, that you're vegan. Your local supermarket advertises a pizza as being vegan. Are you going to accept this as fact, or are you going to spend your time doing research to verify that the pizza really is vegan, no cross-contaminants anywhere in the production chain, etc.?

Or take Linux. All the source code is available to read, but do you? Do you really? Did you read the ENTIRE Linux source code before installing it to make sure there was no hidden backdoor anywhere? If you did I both commend you and advice you to seek help. ;-) Just, y'know, be sure your therapist knows what they're talking about.