The problem with all of this has much to do with the ad networks themselves. If the ads weren't intrusive and didn't screw up the page layout (meaning they obeyed the size restrictions and placement of the ad spaces by developers), it wouldn't be as much of a problem. Couple that with the ads sometimes containing some form of malware and the inability to dismiss popups easily, and you have a recipe for disaster: I visit example.com and it pops up an ad that I dismiss, but by sheer coincidence it's got scripting in it and it installs some kind of malware. I get the computer disinfected, and I go blame example.com because that's how I got it. The people who run example.com will come back and say that they buy their ads from GenericAdNetwork, so you need to talk to them. I then contact GenericAdNetwork, and they say that it's not their fault because they're just a distributor. It turns into a finger-pointing and red herring-chasing session, and you never learn who actually created the malicious ad. Someone needs to be responsible for these things... I don't care if it's example.com or GenericAdNetwork... one of them has to do some kind of filtering and/or vetting of the ads. Until then, browsers like Brave and a pi-Hole are my friends.

Why is it so important to you that he gets credit for the vaccine when he was more than happy to disavow his administration's botching of other aspects of the pandemic response like testing. His exact words were "I don't take responsibility at all" and blamed (of course) Obama of all people. He only takes credit for successes and blames anyone but himself for failures. Our country is screwed because millions of people like you cannot acknowledge that, let alone call it a character flaw.

Why would you think the Trump administration's program for developing a COVID vaccine has anything valid to compare with the Biden administration? Were you expecting Biden to make them start over so he could try to do it faster? That's actually the kind of petty, self-sabotaging, ego-driven thing Trump would have done.

And the data that makes this a "fact" and not your opinion is.... where?

I remember when the space shuttle Enterprise was there. They swapped it out for Discovery and did a whole ceremony around having the two shuttles touch noses. Somewhere in my collection of photos, I have a couple of shots of Discovery on its way in to Dulles riding piggy-back on that 747. Enterprise now resides at the Intrepid Museum in NYC, Atlantis is at the Kennedy Space Center, and Endeavour is at the California Science Center. Leave them where they are... or possibly move Enterprise... one of the shuttles absolutely belongs in the Smithsonian Institute along with other historic aircraft.

And she's still insisting that the recovery should be on the state's dime.

I'm so glad Texas is getting what they voted for.

As much as 20 years ago, I was hearing from a friend who worked in an HR department that they were given instructions to not consider any person who was not currently employed. I've told a friend of mine this recently... that if he really wants a better job (he's currently unemployed and on disability due to a chronic medical condition), he needs to be employed even if it is just a simple call center job.

"TDS" is simply the reflexive response when you can't defend him.

And the tragic thing about this is that the possibility isn't really that far-fetched, and indeed is precisely the type of thing the climate deniers would do to thwart climate science.

Actual slavery involves forcing people to work, and your comparison depends largely on pretending you don't understand this.

The people who elected a 34-time felon who also instigated a violent mob into attempting to overturn the previous (lawful) election have some nerve lecturing anybody on "following the law".

Obtaining citizenship has never been a requirement of anyone living in the country. Their only obligation is maintaining legal status, whether that is on a temporary or permanent basis.

What a ridiculous comparison.

Spoon-fed by the algorithm. I looked over my dad's shoulder at some of the posts he was looking at and just shook my head.

Fark stopped being fun when some loon tried to get me fired.

It didn't work, by the way.