Trainguyrom

This picture just makes me want an apple so badly

Pretty sure there's an xkcd comic joking about the backup speech in case they returned with more astronauts than they left with

In case you don't know, it's from the film Oh Brother Where Art Thou. The film is an absolute trip, and it's a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey but set in depression era US South. Great music and honestly just a completely hard to predict movie at every twist and turn

My dentist was similar. I heard so much Tom Petty and Van Halen on my dentist trips

I'm not OP, just a rando chiming in

Blocking VPNs isn't really possible. You can block known IP ranges but ultimately there's so many ways to encapsulate and encrypt traffic that no solution is 100%. I have specifically worked at places in which those in management positions are interested in sniffing DNS queries to "see what people are up to on company time" and those happened to also be the employers that were doing sketchy things that may or may not have been legal

I've seen a grand total of one influencer make a good argument for a VPN and that was Alan Fisher saying "have you observed your work skirting regulations that they shouldn't be? Are you potentially reviewing legal materials on your work's WiFi that your place of work might prefer you didn't know about? To help avoid retaliation, you might need a VPN such as one from today's sponsor..."

More like they operate a tollroad to the playground and are concerned about why there's so many trucks of wood chips costing them much more to maintain the road to the playground. And OP freely admitted they're taking truckloads of woodchips from the playground.

Except the analogy also doesn't work because ultimately piracy isn't taking, it's just copying and sharing copies. There isn't really a good analogy without directly describing digital distribution and piracy. Maybe an analogy involving a solar farm and a transmission company? Except that gets into technical details that are just as technical as just explaining it as it is

We are swiftly reaching a time where boycotting companies run by people you disagree with will negatively impact your ability to function. Consider abandoning this type of purchasing in the future.

Oh no please don't boycott! The current boycotts are actually costing companies money and we can't have people learning that boycotts can actually work!

When I was a pre-teen I asked my mom about it because I'd been playing The Sims 2 and figured out that your sims can woohoo or they can try for baby, and both look like the same thing. And of course 1 sim day after the lullaby jingle plays upon woohooing the female sim enters the first trimester, and 3 sim days later you have a new baby sim in the family. She was very factual about it all, but didn't bother to talk at all about anything other than explaining vaginal sex. I had to piece the rest together from what I learned at school.

Fortunately I had fairly decent sex ed, except it was painfully boring and felt no different talking about human reproduction than when in highschool biology we talked about how plants reproduce (complete with extremely vague heavily photocopier-burned diagrams of anatomy that look almost entirely unlike what it's depicting which we had to label) but they at least discussed condoms and birth control pills, and even demonstrated a condom on a wooden phalis when I was in high school so that's a lot more than I'm sure some kids get

For my own kids, my oldest is 5 and has already asked. I've left it extremely scientific because she's way too young for a proper talk in just explaining that a male secretes sperm that fertilizes an egg which eventually forms a baby. She wanted more detail but I had to leave that at "when you're older". I'll probably have to give an updated talk when she's 7 or 8 to make sure she knows about periods and maybe I'll then go into more detail so she can be armed with knowledge should any boys take an interest in her (and statistically many boys have watched porn by age 10 which is terrifying)

Personally, I don't trust 13th/14th gen chips period. I'm sure I'm overreacting but I've simply seen too many dead computers due to Intel's CPU bugs in last 12 months that no amount of microcode updates will make me feel comfortable selecting one of those processors, especially when it's my own money on the line

I believe you mistyped "military-aged males"