You can buy reversible USB cables online. The connector works in either direction. They're pretty neat.

Agreed. If the only that stops some people from committing crimes is the threat of supernatural punishment, then they have the morality of an insect.

"I do not understand. Why does Zuckerberg simply not EAT his competitors?" - Lurr of Omicron Persei 8.

They're also using YOUR bandwidth to download these ads.

Yup. And there's also a HUGE difference between being anti-Semitic and just being against genocide. And our "news media" is determined to deliberately conflate the two.

Yup. This is the lazy devs "difficulty" setting. Harder just means, "Enemies take more damage / Enemies deal more damage."

Let's see: Communism A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

In the 1999s-2000s we used WebWasher. It was basically a proxy server which you ran locally on your computer and it had all the filters. You just set up your browser's network connection to point to WebWasher and it acted as the gateway to the Internet.

If browsers somehow decided to kill all their plugin support, you could still use that to filter your content.

And in the 1970s it was, "we all need to tighten our belts and conserve resources."

Guess which part of society didn't follow that advice at all?

Yup. If you let yourself be exploited, you don't have a "great work ethic." That's just sad.

I would gladly go back to 1990s Internet, if I could avoid all the ads, tracking and spam.

Poor moron: "The stock market is doing great!" Me: "The stock market has nothing to do with YOU! Stop simping for billionaires. It's embarrassing to watch."