SnotFlickerman

Not actually all that surprising.

people w personality disorders

People will be my friend??

Surgery recovery slowly continues. A lot of time in bed reading and watching televsion. Kinda going out of my mind with boredom.

Y'all are just really desperate to kill any remaining faith I had in humanity that they aren't all stupid selfish jerks, huh?

The rural part of Washington state... It's always been a lot more backwards and racist than people would expect based on how progressive our big cities are.

Keep it.

Dr. Zoidberg? More like Bender.

or in this case in-group homogeniety

Yeah it's pretty tough to be surrounded by effectively an unwashed mass of idiots in the USA, hard to not have that opinion of the majority of my fellow Americans.

The above is actually similar for the US. If no one lays claim to it, it becomes yours. It's really hard to prove the source of a wad of cash with no evidence of ownership (like not being in a wallet), so it actually often ends up going to the person who found it.

I remember the pre-Youtube internet where we created content because it was fun or educational, not because we needed money for the task of doing so.

Paying for server costs and maintaining them, sure. MetaFilter has a good system for that, they're effectively a non-profit and have a donation structure and paid admins and moderators. The rest of the people on the site, they just make good content for the sake of making good content, not because they feel the need to be paid for their time doing it.

God I miss the pre-Youtube era. "Content creators" looking for a payday via advertising are a fucking cancer.

I got to climb Chichen Itza when I was a kid, my parents took me before they closed it off in the 90's. It was a liability issue after someone fell.

You have to admit that Americans are really showing their asses lately, though.

I have watch history disabled

Man how many people fail to fucking read this is literally re-enforcing my point that maybe more people need to read. This me, quoting myself, from above. Further, someone else made the same kind of comment over a half hour ago and I responded the same, noting that I had already mentioned that I have watch history disabled, so Youtube does not and cannot give me recommendations based on my watch history.

I actually almost never watch Youtube except for the odd video game trailer or random comedy-shit-post-snippet. I don't have any subscriptions or channels I care about. I read.

Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

Agreed.