Ethically? If you would’ve bought it if you couldn’t pirate it, you should probably buy it.

Irrelevant, yeah, but I’ve never been wrong about anything. Purple monkey dishwasher.

This is it. If all my needs were met by the state, I’d happily pay 90% tax with 10% on luxuries, which is about what I spend anyhow

Ordered a pizza, it came with a garlic dip in a transparent tub. My sister tried to dip the crust in the dip about 4 times to no avail, each time my buddy saying “the lids on, Jess. The lids still on, Jess. The lids still on, Jess. The lid, Jess, is still on” until the words finally got to her brain. She and I collapsed in giggles for a solid minute. It was the perfect representation of “this is your brain on weed”.

I’d say the same about reddit, comparing 8 years ago when I joined to 2/3 years later. Again, political divisiveness partially to blame, but also, early adopters of tech tend to be more intelligent. The more it filters into the mainstream, the dumber the general discourse gets. Eventually, that has the effect of putting off the smart folk who were there first, even further lowering the tone.

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago; neighbor texted me to say all my car windows were open. I had to put the key in to wind them back up. Neighbor said he once had a car that kept doing that - some controller unit had somehow gotten water/moisture in, so he had the part replaced and that fixed it.