He doesn’t get older, just more and more apparent he was right this whole time

You are still removing others rights over a hypothetical. It doesn’t miss this, it directly focuses on the point of blame. Punish the parents for exposing their kids. Irresponsibility is not excuse for harm… If a parent leaves hardcore porn laying around for a child to find and harm occurs, don’t punish the uninvolved adult up the street.

Another form of media doesn’t magically absolve parents from parental responsibility. Stop trying to play the “poor adults have no control over their kids!” Card.

The “but think of the children!!!” trope is tired and over abused to remove rights and privacy. Move along.

How about less “control everyone else” and more “control your own damn kids”.

My daughter didn’t get unsupervised access until she proved responsible enough to trust. I want to say around 13.

Just because “I grew up with it unsupervised and it ruined me” doesn’t immediately equal “everyone will have this experience”. Sorry your parents didn’t understand what you were doing. Sorry you saw stuff that bothered you. Don’t punish everyone else for it.

I’m far from a helicopter parent… Instead, my kid has come to me for help in resolving uncomfortable or problematic interactions. We’ve always been clear and honest about why we’ve asked her to avoid certain things. Even when it made us uncomfortable. Especially then.

She’s 20 now. Most cheerful kid I’ve ever met. No idea how that happened directly, but I know I can trust her.

The Martian. This one has different flavor between the 2.

Close second etc would be The Expanse.

Honorable mention: Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

https://youtu.be/Gfcfdt0jcWs

They’ve always been evil

This very much explains erratic behavior, or more specifically aggression and actions while ignoring implications, I’ve seen escalate in the past few years.

Some of it is political for sure, but correlation is not causation etc…

“… remnants of the duty still in my pants…”

Call of Duty: Black Plops

Thanks!

I hate it.

48 hours from now: “according to Israel officials, Hamas was ferrying more hostages in via the port and it was destroyed while taking care of the suspected member”

Ironically mine started without nefarious connotations… The family computer in the mid 80s was a minor novelty to me for ages, only good for simple text games really. Then…

My brother grabbed a cracked game toward 1990 off a BBS. The game itself I don’t even remember, but it had a cracktro that stunned me. Graphics I’d never seen, actual music out our little adlib card… Was crazy enticing.

Being stuck in the Midwest US while enamored with DemoScene is a hell of a drug. Every few kb down that modem was like crack.

That then opened a new world of games as well… Things my older brother had no interest in. Things my parents obviously would not have allowed. You know… The Good Shit ™️.

Obviously once codecs caught up video and audio quickly became a thing. My closest buddy and I would burn stack after stack of CDs to take a spindle at a time over to share between us and others.

Then the data hoarding set in… What good is just having these shiny things for yourself when you can share? True joy doesn’t exist without spreading it to others.

The sickness persists… Stronger than ever despite becoming a pessimistic old man. Multiple gigabit connections: check. 200tb arrays just for torrents: check. Seed times tracked in years: check.

Remember when 14.4k was the most epic thing for grabbing those disks at lightning speed? I certainly do.

It used to, but worn off with friction.

The United military forces of me are acutely interested in this device you describe for warfare.

Deadly capitalism

What would Senior say if he were alive today?

"Help help lemme outta this box I can’t breathe!

Ohhhhh… A red snapper! Very tasty!

I’d put on some relaxing beats and take the long way… No need to really hurry.

Might just enjoy the drive for a while.

Get that chest hair caressed by wind!