Almost 38, I spend all my free time with my wife. Started off more balanced before we moved for my work, and the more I focused on time with her, the happier we were. I hang out with work friends occasionally.

My pre marriage friends became vile, Trump-worshipping, incel assholes, so I am very content with my decisions.

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What a great comment from an infrequent commenter. Thank you! This was a lovely read, good points, and I shared with my wife.

To anyone who ventures this far, enjoy this relevant Simpsons reference

I’ve seen rebuttals that this was an advertising firm embellishing capabilities to sell themselves, which…maybe. But I have too many anecdotal experiences to believe that.

Last month, my wife and I talked about how we hate Morgan Wallen. Never even typed his name until this post. And yet, after the discussion, she had IG sponsored posts for his out of state concert and Alexa had ads for him on Amazon music. Both within 2 days of the conversation.

I threw out the Alexa, increased Pinhole block lists, and we just leave our phones in another room in airplane mode for some topics.

How do I can my friend contact them?

Facts are too hard for them, try a picture book.

Indeed, you’re surely right. Pour one out for the big boys.

Fully agree! It’s so much work and so incredible to look at and admire. Art deco too for the same reasons.

Steam locomotives!!! Maybe not the full intent of this thread, but they’re terrible for the environment, inefficient, complicated as hell, and SO COOL!

Thank you for unlocking this horrifying memory for me. Great albeit disturbing movie and scene.

Different earplug guy here: smart watches and some other devices vibrate or tap on your wrist.

That’s how I wake up, plus I don’t disturb my wife!

“When you make something idiot-proof, the world builds a better idiot.”

So cool and so lucky! That’s like winning a nerd lottery!

Is that how the song should be taken?

I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.

Top tier entertainment for those of us in the 6th or 7th grade and just falling in love with sci-fi!

Edit: I still have several of the songs from this movie on my playlists

I don’t, and I’m okay with it. I miss it, but I spend what free time I have with my wife.

My former friend group that still plays a lot of video games took a different path. Some have no career progress, others have horrible marriages, and a couple are cheating scumbags.

I like to think my wife and I made some good choices and we work to keep making them.

Yup, US; and yup our police are mostly worthless or worse. I’ve never seen consequences even for DUI offenders.

That makes sense, this is what I see in the selfish US. Be vigilant and keep your country and cultural mindset the way it is or better.

And why the hell is effectively running stop signs and red lights so normalized too?

I ignore them and pick my nose when they angrily pass. Keeps me from engaging.