Basically any youtube video on diy fixes. Hate to see a 5min video for a 10 sec fix.

In Europe and North America, and there were still 13,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2021. Global total in the same year was 650,000.

Speak for yourself! I generally refuse subscriptions. I still buy movies as Bluray/UHD disk and music on CD. I buy kindle books, but I refuse to subscribe for them. About the only subscription I have is Prime since it pays for itself with free shipping so the video streaming it provides is basically a bonus (and I rarely use it).

He needs to be convicted freaking Orange orangutan

Decent quality clothes period. I'm not buying suoer expensive stuff like millionaires do, but the regular expensive stuff - like my Calvin Klein work dress from Macy's - I've bought 2. The hems of both completely fell out in a month.

My wife and I have accepted the fact that we will never be able to buy a house again.

It has been more than 10 years since I've seen a firefly, and when I was kid, it used to be a light show in my granddad's garden.

meh, I'm cool with people dancing as long as they are not obstructing anything. People who yell at kids in public, watch video's on loud volume without headphones or leave their rubbish everywhere, well, shame on them.

Stupid people have existed since the dawn of time. With the connectivity of the internet and social media, you are just seeing more of them.

Whoever invented a way for voicemail to be automatically turned into text is a genius. I haven't checked my voicemail in YEARS.

It is now 'The cost of existing'

This one comes and goes in cycles.

This is such a garbage summary of how journalism works. Objectivity doesn't mean taking sides or not taking slides, it means, seeking and citing your sources and changing your viewpoint if the evidence points that way. The New York Times is a fantastic newspaper. There are consequences for their journalists if they write stories that are full of lies. They would write a correction or retraction if they make one little mistake. Things like Fox News are an entirely different animal. They don't fact check the vast majority of anything they say, and many of their opinion shows are labeled as news. This false equivalency stuff of "the right and the left are equally bad" is part of the problem. To insinuate that a fascist friendly American nationalist group is the same as an imperfect center left party makes no sense.

We used to hang out in diners and drink free coffee refills until the sun came up when I was a teen. #GothVibes

No more dumping your a*****e teenager who can’t drive yet at the mall for the afternoon. Those days are gone 😭

I was always super excited to go to the mall with friends after hearing my parents talk about it, but one of the malls near us closed and the other has super frequent shootings/robberies. We do go to the library sometimes, but having to sit and whisper talk just isn’t the same

Sorry, but when I was a teenager there were no hangout places. We went to a café or the arcade or some similar place and had to buy something. The OP must be from a very different place.

I don't understand this one. Free parks, beaches, malls, football/soccer/baseball fields, tennis courts, dog parks, skate parks, libraries, museums, fishing piers, etc. are everywhere! What went away? I'm 40 for a timeline reference on what I might be missing.

try the library - they were for quiet reading - but no more. A good third space without paying

I don’t understand what is a “third space”? (For that matter, what the hell are the first two?)

I grew up in the age of the 24 hour supermarket. We'd wander the aisles, talking about movies and philosophy. When I went to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in the '80s, there was a mall in town that was built specifically for teens to hang out, with a movie theater, roller rink, diner, and candy and record stores, and basically nothing else. Supermarkets close at night now and I'm pretty sure that mall is gone

This is why places like libraries are important. :-)

(I'm 34) I didn't live in an area with other teens, and my school friends weren't local (private school... Great education, a horror show for everything else.) We hung out online (MSN messenger and MySpace back then, showing my age!) These days I think a lot of teens go into town and hang around at McDonalds/KFC etc. Where else is there? They get some chips and it's warm and dry, with a loo and seats and generally reasonably clean.

Third? Why is it called so? First and Second being Home and School, I think ... but ... then, there's still lots of elses, beside these two? Or what am I missing here?

Malls would still be open if those same teens hadn't let them die.

I am very thankful here we have one of the best places in the world for star gazing.

Copration greed destroyed it

I mean there was that comment about how TVs would never catch on because Americans didn't have long enough attention spans. So I'm not sure this is a new thing.

Are we talking in person or on the internet? Because anonymity seems to trigger the "I'm an a*****e" gene in most people. But for some reason if you talk to them in person they're much more subdued.

Our local newsagent closed down in the last six months. Too few people buying newspapers and magazines. And the other stuff like pens and stationary were dying too because kids (and adults) are using computers/tablets/phones more and more. I've also seen quite a few magazines now offer digital subscriptions so why even buy a paper copy anymore?

I don't think we have ever has access to as much free information as we do now.

They do exist. They just don't get the same hits. So you have to search harder to find them. Forums or discords are the best way to get genuine reviews. eg: Don't go to 4wdcampingdotcom, go to 4WDcampinngforumdotcom and look for comments from real people not influencers or professional reviewers. They may not be as well written but they're going to be more honest.

I n Australia, we still have them. The law requires that there must be a public phone network. A little while back, the operator (Telstra) decided that the money they took in and the effort of collecting it was not worth it, so now all public phones are free. Cost nothing to use.

It's going to get worse. Imagine being able to snap a pic and reverse image search the person across the bar. Within minutes you're in their social media posts. You've got the name of their kid/pet/whatever. This technology exists today and it's creepy as hell.

Americans were always crazy.

wait, you have money???

They exist. Just further away from city centers now.

If you get bad Google search results, you need to learn how to Google better.

"Fun" fact: We're in the middle of a mass extinction event. The holocene mass extinction. And the current consensus is that it is largely anthropogenic. Though the exact amount is debated.

Good writing in general.

I would add watching a concert with your eyes and not through your phone.

I rarely ever buy cake. But there was 8ne brand I always enjoyed so I bought one as a guilty pleasure lately. At first I thought it was just me getting older, but they have changed the packaging too so I started googling and lo and behold, their chocolate cake barely contains chocolate anymore. It's mostly replaced with sugar and food colouring. That's why they changed the flavour from chocolate to cocoa. Because where I live the chocolate content must surpass a certain level before something can be advertised as chocolate something and it must contain real chocolate not compound chocolate.

I use CDs in my car everyday. I keep them in one of those zip cd wallets :)

If you loved it, then choose to make the time for it. Go to bed 10 minutes early, and just sit. You have the choice.

Sunday paper Miss the newspapers

Use a computer monitor with in-built speakers.

????? Is this a thing? Thought all cars came with spares

Algorithms destroy humanity. They plot the most likely course for every aspect of our lives and then refuse to allow us outside their box. It makes us easy to exploit. It started with grocery stores, now it's even in applying for jobs. Your life has been predetermined to make the most profits for those at the top. Its not a big conspiracy, just small steps by the greedy that eventually led us into this distopian present.

Thank God I'm a optimist

To be honest, why pay a utility/phone company the any amount of money per month if it's just a redundancy? I got rid of my in home phone in 2015. It cost $25/month. That won't make or break me but it'll add $25 of fun to my life during the month or $25 in the savings account.

The insane wages those athletes get have to come from somewhere

Not only that but they're all kinda blending together. Take the google app icons (not quite the same thing but close enough). The used to be easy to tell apart, now they're all a similar generic Red, Green, Yellow, Blue design and you need to look closely. Sure you can say "it's a google app" at a glance but you need to look close to determine if it's Mail, Maps or Meet.

Nom nom nom, burp

Lots of cars have the shark fin antennas too