If that old billy be the Devil, I'd have danced with him myself

Did you ever see that 'investigation' or insider reveal bit about the mods of 4chan? Their Discord names were all posted, with screencaps of conversations etc. and some explanatory narration about who they were or how they acted. I think this was a few years ago, I don't remember the details, just recall thinking that at least half of them should've been put to the wall immediately, starting with that piece of dogshit head mod with the edgelord screen name.

The reveal showed that the site was deliberately and knowingly steered toward neo-nazi and reactionary dominance in discussions and mod actions. /b/ with its juvenile nO rULeSSszZz had been like an open barn door to something like that happening for years and finally it did. A fucking gold mine for psy ops of the CIA and FBI, ever in pursuit of their anti-communist wetdreams while they pretend to be impartial to any political affiliations in all their PR.

Yes there has been a consolidation over the decades into few large, corporate operations. You can still buy fresh produce and other farm goods locally from the same people who grew them in "farmer's markets" in towns and cities, but these are only in limited times of year and locations. For most Americans the food they buy and eat will have come to their supermarket from some massive factory-like supply chain, average distance of over 1,000 miles away, or something like that (I've not read up on this topic in many years).

The documentary Food, Inc. narrates a surprising and dark picture of the state of farming in the U.S., and it was filmed 17 years ago! So food production has progressed further into profits-at-all-cost corporate hands since then. Similar things happened with smaller, often local, goods stores disappearing during 1980s-1990s due to emergence of large shopping malls and multi-department corporate chains like Walmart and Target (you may see this referred to as the Main Street "ghost town").

Same shit here. Applying at jobs I'm legitimately qualified for and able-bodied enough to do, then getting ghosted, rejected by automated email after 1-7 days, or maybe given an interview and then rejected 3-5 days after that. Some places I have 5 or 6 applications at over a period of a few years, all rejected before an interview without explanation. If I didn't already have major chronic depression before starting adult life, I sure as fuck would've after being forced into the capitalist labor market.

Actress Sydney Sweeney, foremost popularity comes from her role in the Euphoria series but she has quite a full schedule outside that.

Never seen that on my Firefox install with uBO, I'm only getting that passive-aggressive 3-second delay (which is definitely not intentional...) on every video page load since the war on adblockers started.

Related, the "free with ads" section under "Movies & TV" on the left column is completely broken for me, it's just a blank white page on Firefox with or w/o uBlock Origin active for at least three months now whether logged in or not, in regular and private browsing mode. And now it's broken on unmodified Edge too (was working until a few weeks ago, was copying & pasting the movie links into Firefox). I used it all the time when looking for something to run in the background since like 2019, checked it every week or three when new titles got rotated into the catalog.

The page in question is here if anyone wants to try it.

Goog just doing what Goog does best. Breaking shit, never fixing the shit they broke, and generally chipping away at the dwindling good will and user experience they've held onto for some years now.

I grew up with two kids (among others) who had similar material circumstances. Each lived and raised in a full-size, four-bedroom house in excellent repair, both parents earned well above poverty level incomes. One car per parent replaced with a new one about every 5 years, and a hand-me-down given to each of the kids when they got their driving licenses.

They had privacy, peace and quiet, never wanted for food, enjoyed weekly dining out with the entire family, had regular gatherings with more distant family (who also enjoyed similar material conditions), multiple yearly vacations, virtually anything else that related to comfort and ease of mind. Both of these kids grew up into borderline sociopaths with self-admitted libertarian ideologies.