Step #1: Log out. Log out on your phone, desktop, or wherever you access reddit from.

Step #2: Delete whatever apps you used.

The way to get off of reddit is to get off of reddit. I found that as long as I was logged in, I couldn’t help but contribute - so I logged out and stopped.

Six months later I went back, vandalized my posts and comments, and then deleted my accounts.

I’m gone. I’m done. The divorce is final.

In Canada, it’s easily A&W.

The only people I know who hand wash their undies are wearing expensive lace. Thongs and normal underwear are fairly resilient. Cold water washing helps, as does either tumble drying or hanging. You can also use the drlicates cycle on your washer, and get a lingerie bag.

In addition to the comments from others, it’s worth remembering that a lot of their humour is timeless. Shakespeare made drag jokes. The handsome cabin boy is as old as sailing.

Basically, taboo is funny - and these subjects have been taboo for most of human history.

This is the way.

It’s not enough. Promusicae and Google need to be slapped with massive punitive damages every single time they pull this shit.

Curiously, most uncensored Japanese porn sounds like ‘normal’ (e.g. American) porn, and censored porn sounds like kinky torture.

Look at the programs, check the pre-reqs, and apply.

My wife is defending her (terminal) Master’s thesis in two days, at the age of 58. It took five years and was a hard slog with a full-time job, but she managed.

Definitely read the article, but TL;DR It’s acceptable (and necessary) to shut down Nazis.

I have a teenage son - a wonderful kid who keeps me going.

Not sure what I’m going to do in my dead marriage after he moves out.

I fence, and lefties have a significant advantage, just because we’re used to fencing opposite-handed opponents.

Here’s my snarky take on it:

Because it’s not the job of the mail client to decide what parts of the protocol should be hidden from stupid users.

This is questioning in bad faith, and is asked to push a narrative.

Even if I agree with the narrative, it doesn’t belong here.

Two short answers: Tradition and simplicity.

If you have different names, which one do the kids get? Also, it’s sometimes challenging to fill in school forms when your kid has a different last name than you.

That is probably true up to a point - but there is also a point where some ‘honest opinions’ shouldn’t be tolerated or debated. The Nazis marching through Columbus two days ago don’t need to be respectfully convinced, they need to be put down however possible.

It’s not something you do, it’s something that society is. Japan has a long cultural history of a few things that are absolutely foreign to Western culture (not just the USA, but Canada, Great Britain, Australia, most of western Europe, etc.)

Even in a high-stakes game of consumer-capitalism, Japan has a sense of ethics that just isn’t present elsewhere. A CEO might pull the same shady shit in Japan as they would in the US, but if they’re caught, they still mostly take responsibility - resigning in disgrace, rather than “resigning” to another company with a fat bonus, which is what we see elsewhere. I mean, three years ago McDonalds actually made news for clawing back a $105M severance package from their disgraced ex-CEO, who was having an affair with several of his employees. The fact of the matter is that he initially got the package, no matter what he did.

Likewise, there is an expectation of acceptable behaviour in Japan. There are all sorts of circumstances where a blind eye is turned, but they’re oddly strict - and sketchy behaviour outside of that is considered reprehensible.

So can we? Maybe in theory, but we’d have to revamp our culture - and in a direction opposite to the trajectory it’s currently on.

Two thousand was obvious.
Two thousand and one as well, thanks to Stanley Kubrick.
I made a determined effort somewhere around 2004 to go back to the previous century’s naming, and call the first decade “aught,” as in “twenty aught six.”

Nobody followed me in that.

Even so, I now refer to all years except 2000 and maybe 2001 as “twenty (aught/oh) <year>.” Good riddance to “two thousand seven” as a year.

No.

Don’t normalize the spread of toxic tip culture.

I’m nearly three times your age and so will likely have a very different perspective, but…

I remember watching the news (from Canada) when Reagan was first elected. it felt HORRIBLE, and turned out to be just that - Reagan, Thatcher, and their psychophant hanger-on Mulroney ushered in a new era of “get fucked by the rich, fuck the poor” also known as trickle-down economics.

And yet, there was always a sense of decorum among them. Even Harper and Bush jr. at least pretended to be civil in the world of politics, no matter how corrupt and evil they were.

Trump changed everything. He was loud, abrasive, offensive, and off the rails. And he won! Suddenly the doors were open. Here in Canada, O’Toole did outhouse attack ads against Trudeau. Jingoistic, vapid, fear-mongering populism took root throughout Europe. And it just kept getting worse.

Now this election in the US was unhinged beyond description. Trump said things and did things that should have gotten him locked up. Musk should be facing either life in jail or the electric chair for his interference. There are no limits in American elections anymore - I would genuinely say including shooting someone onstage.

Here in Canada, Poilievre has been carefully fanning the same embers - stoking fear, instilling rage, creating groups to hate; and at the same time, throwing out meaningless attacks on his opponents. Unlike when O’Toole awkwardly attempted it, it is working very effectively. Having an entire room or stadium chanting “AXE THE TAX” without even offering an alternative shows that he’s winning by being the same empty bully as Trump.

(And meanwhile, Harper is chortling quietly from behind the curtain as he pulls the puppet strings.)

So yeah, this is crazy - and it’s the new normal, until we start showing politicians that it doesn’t work, and can get them arrested.

This happens in the US, Canada, and many other western democracies.

The difference this time is that it’s not just the GOP being shitty, it’s an unhinged Nazi who just got elected, and has spent four years purging the party of unfaithful.