I think you misremember being a teenager. As my moody attitude swings would deter all but a select few friends who understood I was going through something.

That, and Squall et al. are child soldiers, kind of depressing business for teenagers

Playing WoW

See message from QT3.14 Dranei boy

Press numlock, type out 'sup bb LFR BT?'

Left and right mouse click to halt and continue killing. The good old days

My thought is that it's part of the enforcement of that 'fair time' bullshit. They're covering their asses in case they haven't allowed enough 'conservative candidates' similar time on air

I think this is a picture from their Halftime celebration during the super bowl. They do a musical performance on the field and then it gets cleaned up quickly for the game to resume after

Oh never mind, definitely trans.

They want to steal her 'horn'? She hides her true identity from all but her friends?

Unicorn is silly for me personally, but, hey, they've got a gargoyle and a blob and everything else, who am I to complain about character design

Wait, are they trans?

And is deadlock worth playing solo? I played for a bit in early access but couldn't keep enough friends interested to stay long term

I gave up facebook a year or so after college. Told my friends, made sure the group chat had my number, same situation.

That feeling sucks, still a little bitter and bothered by it almost a decade later. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they're just busy and the average person is a cognitive miser.

Exactly why this law needs made clear:

No one is entitled to sex

'Withholding sex' isn't a mark against someone in a divorce and in no way should it be a factor in whether someone is entitled to their fair share of the fruits of a shared life should it come to an end.

If sex is housework, sleeping with that person is a chore, and god if that's not the world we live in anymore.

Let's not hyperbolize an already bleak fact. The average american reads at a 7th-8th grade level, and 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level

It's getting slowly worse post-covid though

https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/literacy-rate-in-the-united-states/

Statistics disagree with this. Some are listing 'porn seeking' where they include erotica and non-video content as high as 44%, others that are looking at video only are showing 11-15% or so. I'd have to go looking again, but that's still not a small number of users, much more than 1%.

You ask 'wouldn't it be better' if there were less memes

The community, through it's posting, voting, and reposting, has chosen Memes regardless of whether it'd be better.

A lot of answers in here say "that's how the fediverse works, people post what they want and engage with what they want, what they don't want they can unsubscribe or block to curate their own feed, to avoid seeing parts of what the collective is sharing/talking about when using memes".

What you're describing requires unilateral control over what content various communities will engage in. It doesn't matter if that's what people like, so much as it's what people continue to choose. If they like it, great. If they don't, they'll either curat their feed and not have a clue what you're talking about regarding memes on the Frontpage, or they aren't bothered or even like the memes on the Frontpage and aren't looking to seek out more nuanced discussions and serious threads.

'Organize a general strike'

You mean the thing they quash here with prejudice? The thing the US will build a jail on top of you for? The thing that they've prevented a majority of Americans from even attempting with the fucked social net and the paycheck-to-paycheck existence, dangling you just above homelessness (which they do nothing to fix or help people who are)?

Maybe in another part of the country I could feel that my neighbors and myself would provide and help one another, but I can't even get these people to pick up their dog shit, let alone vote in their own best interests, or god forbid, take on the government that's telling them I'm the devil and my cohorts are demons.

I agree with the want for one, but I think people's wants and wishes get in the way of the colder reality. I used to think things like the trail of tears would be impossible to happen in the modern day here with technology and social mediabl, but honestly? I think the government would live stream it at this point