So, 2003 called....

(Sigh. Enjoy an upvote)

GIF was ancient in the YTMND.com days. And nowadays, YTMND is like two decades old. Back when my life had hope.

I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don't mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.

For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^(I'll show myself out now)^

No kidding.

I'm feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: "You're either with us, or we'll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism"

Same here.

There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can't see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.

But that's it.

I feel like the past 3 weeks I've moved to a new city. And I'm discovering new communities here.

Before the pandemic, the US wasn't too bad. Large cities got expensive, but most places a movie ticket ran around $10.

Now, to make up for lost money, some chains are trying to charge extra for getting "a good seat" or other perks that used to be just part of the price of the ticket.

I think they overestimate demand. I haven't been to a movie since 2019. I don't think I'm missing out. Home TVs are just so big now.

No ads and no user payment?

So...... who pays to keep the servers going? Who pays to produce the content?

That stuff is expensive! We're paying for it somehow.

Either Putin or Prigozhin end up dead.

Maybe we'll get lucky and somehow finish each other off.

Honestly if reddit had come, cap in hand, and says "Hey what can we do to be awesome so you'll buy premium"

And then listened to our advice? I'd have bought premium to help em out.

Instead, they are acting genuinely insane. Like back when my brother was on cocaine and Adderall and would try to hit me up for money.

Reddit can die.

Frame is as: The Boomers are retiring in a "silver tsunami."

Employers can either:

• Work with a union to have single point of contact to know how to keep workers happy and sticking around the job

• Crush unions and lose that single point of contact. Then keep wondering, employee by employee what it takes to keep people around

A union is to the employer's advantage. A union is capitalism's solution to keeping the bottom from revolting and embracing communism. Unions are good. Unions are American.

So, what's going to be the first NSFW post?

As a red-blooded, straight cisgender male American... I vote for... Saul Goodman's ass. (Reference to "Better Call Saul")