Non-profit means the corporation isn’t set up to make a profit and the business operates off of donations instead of selling a product. So there is always a profit motive. I wish more people understood this. Everything from Greenpeace to MADD is still a corporation ran by people who want to make lots and lots of cash.
Another option is to not use Twtich. There’s literally a jillion other things to do online.
Between leaving that out and the bit about young gigolos going to a party to bang a bunch of aging movie actresses, I have no idea how that movie works so well.
Remember that 90% of what is said online is said by complete oddballs because nobody will talk to them in real life and they have all the time in the world to post on the Internet.
And the more extreme the view, the more sock puppets these oddballs will have to try to convince you that their fucked up view of the world is actually normal.
IRL I almost never, ever meet people who are obsessed with politics, or people who are extremists like Nazis or communists. Online, they’re all over the place and it is not remotely normal. Same goes for chronic pot heads who are vehemently anti-smoking cigarettes. You don’t meet that kind of bizarro-world health nuttery offline. Or people who think that people who have outdoor cats are pure evil and should be put in prison.
Extremism like this in general is not at all normal offline. But online it seems like it is. It is not.
Ok. I’ll believe that Europe isn’t 90% of the world.
My source is your source. That’s just human error. The point still stand. There are a lot of countries outside of Europe.
Looks like I left out S. Korea and Honduras.
Algeria, Uganda, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa. !eudefaultism
I think 21 is age in Canada too. It might be in the rest of the commonwealth also.
Woke to the average person who isn’t terminally online means “Why did Maruchan change the name of Oriental ramen to Soy? Must have something to do with that whole woke thing.”
Why is 18 still a thing? You can’t even buy cigarettes at 18 today.
“With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me. What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?” - Capt. Zapp Brannigan
Wow. A strawman and a false dichotomy. Impressive. The only people that extremists hate more than the other side are the people who refuse to take one.
I had a similar problem in the late 90s except I was in my late 20s and a friend of mine got me into web developing. It took me a couple of weeks to realize I didn’t need to spend 30 minutes uploading my work via ftp over a 56K line to see the website. I could have just opened it up with a browser on my own computer. I wasted a lot of time.
For me, it’s when it’s convenient. Opera has a VPN built in, so why not? I’m not so much worried about the government. I’m more worried about website owners.
People who live in the suburbs live in very quiet environments. I live next to a busy street and personally I would like to see the inventor of the subwoofer eliminated.
Holy shit! I’m sorry, but you guys sound like the worst employees in the world. Drug deals in the parking lot? Coming to work whacked out on LSD? Wow.
My guess would be evolution. Those horses that let us ride them were fed well and cared for by humans and then mated with similar horses to make more and more of the same. Those that didn’t let us ride them had to fight for their own food and fight for their own mates and didn’t multiply as much. So we essentially happened upon a couple of horses that enjoyed hauling us around, told them to kiss each other, and we got more. Repeat and rinse for tens of thousands of year.
Glad about that. I can’t imagine living in that kind of environment for long
It wasn’t bad. One of the skills lost since then was how not to be a fussy Felix Unger bloodhound. You didn’t notice it. People are much more sensitive to smells today. Between the body spray and the air fresheners, the modern world still stinks, it just stinks pretty. The other nice thing was that there was a clear distinction between places that were uptight and relaxed. Today the smell of a church and the smell of a bar are almost the same.
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Also, one of the skills lost today is handling fire. Back then everybody lit a match or flicked their Bic 20+ times a day. Casually, effortlessly and elegantly handling flame was a skill almost every sophisticated adult had. Today seeing a 26 year old strike a match is like watching a 6 year old strike a match in the 80s. It’s very apparent in films that are period pieces when the actor is kind of terrified of the match they just clumsily struck.
Non-profits seem to work better when they produce a product. But when they produce nothing and just have a goal, they don’t want to close shop after achieving that goal. Like MADD. The woman who founded it left a quarter of century ago because she accomplished what she set out to do. Those running it today don’t want to lose their meal ticket.