So how many degrees of separation are necessary for your morals? Because unless you grow your own food, weave your own cloth, make everything you own yourself, and consume no media; I can pretty much guarantee there are things you have spent money or time on that contribute to groups or individuals that you find reprehensible.

HBO knows the benefits of pirating. For many of their shows, they tend to be very lax about allowing trackers and streams for the first episode of a season, but then militantly take down everything for the second episode. Of course you can still find episode 2 if you know where to look, but the point is it’s harder. They want people to view the first episode and get hooked, and then pay for a subscription when they can’t find the next one.

Oh, when you brought him up I was worried he had actively done something bad. But no, you just don’t like that he’s Mormon, that’s literally your only gripe.

Mistborn were his first books, the first trilogy is definitely a bit rough around the edges.

Where?

It’s not a cure. Sure, that might help future generations, but that doesn’t exactly do anything for the current adult population which are the ones fucking things up with their stupidity.

And then run over with treads. And then reversed. And then run over again. And then hosed the remains into a nearby sewer.

You are using this meme wrong. It’s not for opposing views.

By many definitions, reasoning IS just a form of pattern recognition so the lines are definitely blurred.

You’re going to hate this response, but if you’re already paying to avoid ads, you could get YouTube premium. I got grandfathered into it from Google Music and honestly I feel it’s absolutely worth it. It’s about the same cost as Spotify and comes with YouTube Music that works just as well. So I look at it like paying for Spotify with the added bonus of no ads on YouTube and being able to play videos in the background. I also tend to watch a ton of YouTube videos and often use them to fall asleep to.

At this point, it’s the only subscription service I still pay for. I’ve ditched all the others, but that one has stayed. Anytime I see someone watching YouTube without it, or without a good quality ad blocker, I’m horrified. So. Many. Ads. I don’t get how anyone can watch anything like that.

But I get it; most people would rather drag their ass through a mile of broken glass than pay YouTube a dime, and I totally respect that. Just sharing my experience.

One of the unlabeled buttons on the side of the screen should mute it. Whenever I find it, I’ll take a pen or sharpie and mark which one is the mute button for future people who don’t want to be subjected to that shit.

A 2D image of a violin is not a violin.

I wish people who do this would recognize they are playing into the corporate sanitation of the internet designed to make it more ad-friendly.

I agree with the statement, but being vulnerable IS a weakness. That’s pretty much what the definition of vulnerable is. Now, being vulnerable doesn’t make you a weak person, but it absolutely is a weakness.

I just want my GameCube adapter to work again

Except it will. As will “I was just following orders”. It works for cops. It worked in Vietnam. Hell, it even worked for the majority of Nazi’s; only a small percentage actually faced reprocussions for their actions.

Welcome to real history, where the good guys don’t always win and the bad guys don’t always lose.

Maybe that’s because most of the vegan meat alternatives don’t taste like what they’re trying to replace, have a weird texture, or cause horrible gas/stomach problems.

We haven’t cracked a good meat substitute yet, at least not for people that enjoy the real thing. We’re close, but we’re just not there yet.

Also no. The joke is that it’s a made-up fruit. It doesn’t mean anything.

Diabetes and obesity in the long term, heartburn and indigestion in the short term.

Yea I’m gonna need more of these juice comics