I’m guessing the odds are so slim that vasectomy plus condom is so close to impossible statistically speaking that you would be safe. I’m not trying to criticize your personal choice, which is perfectly valid.

Yes, it’s called “keep it in your pants if you want your partner to get pregnant and she doesn’t want to because abortion is illegal in a lot of states now.”

Forgot to add- Around half of women who have had abortions have had at least one child previously.

https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2007/05/repeat-abortion-repeat-unintended-pregnancy-repeated-and-misguided-government-policies

Because most people are not anywhere near as computer literate as much of Lemmy would have you believe.

You know that scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Donald and Daffy Duck are both playing the same song on individual pianos while trying to kill each other? Yeah.

Not that I remember.

She meant she could figure it out just playing around with it, not reading a manual or asking around. I told her she’d have to read a manual.

My daughter told me the other day, “I bet I could figure out a Commodore 64 if I had one.”

Good luck figuring out LOAD “*”,8,1 by yourself, kid.

Even in a utopia, some people wouldn’t want to live anymore. And it should be their legal right to end their lives painlessly at the time of their choosing.

Capitalism solves nothing. It doesn’t even, in general, make people rich. It just makes rich people richer.

How dare you be grateful to me! Don’t you know how hard I’ve worked to completely destroy every shred of my self-esteem?

(Also, thanks for all the work that you’ve done!)

FUUUUUUCK DAVID ZASLAV!

He is not only hiding things people enjoy watching and playing, he is hiding history.

Imagine how much less we would know about Elizabethan England if all of Shakespeare’s plays were lost to all time.

TIL Vladimir Putin is America’s puppet.

Basically they don’t want NATO right on their doorstep.

Have you looked at a map of Europe lately?

Sorry… Are Ukrainians the aboriginals in this scenario or are the Russians the aboriginals?

Because I’m pretty sure they’re both descended from Slavs and Vikings.

How much ground has Russia gained in the last year?

Also, remember when Russia said they’d get to Kyiv in 2 days? It’s been a long 2 days.

There was a decent 5 year span in my life where the only time I ever pirated was to see British TV shows I wouldn’t be able to watch in the U.S. And if I could have paid the British TV license fee to see those, I would have paid it too. Because that would have been a total of two streaming services.

Even now that we’re down to one income we can afford two streaming services- one for video and one for music. But we sure as fuck can’t afford the dozen streaming services you need to have if you expect to watch all the programming people rave about as amazing.

I can’t afford Max and Disney+ and AppleTV+. If I want to find out why The Last of Us is so good and why The Mandalorian was a terrific show and how funny Ted Lasso is, and have the temerity to expect no ads when I’m already paying to watch, that alone would cost me almost $40 a month. Add Netflix and Amazon to that and it’s another $30+.

That is what I was paying for cable except with far less programming. On-demand and no ads are definitely advantages, but pay the same amount for a fraction of the programming advantages? Not for me.

In the 90s, my cable company kept adding new channels but the price didn’t keep shooting up.

It really is surprising how bad Netflix’s quality is. I can notice it on my TV and it’s only 1080p.

I would like to see some evidence that the competition resulted in Netflix losing a lot of subscribers, and thus money, rather than not hitting their predicted revenue targets. Because I would bet it’s the latter and not the former. I don’t know of too many people who said, “well, I had Netflix, but Disney is doing streaming video now so I won’t be watching Bake-Off anymore.” They just ended up getting Netflix and Disney+.

For a while anyway. Now people are dropping these services due to the price hikes. Unless you downgraded your Netflix service when they added lower tiers with fewer options and ads, to maintain the basic Netflix service you had in 2016, you’re paying an additional $5 a month today.

Netflix and all the other streaming services are built upon the insane idea that there are an infinite number of new customers that will continue to sign up regularly. Some of them don’t even think you need all that much programming to draw them. Paramount+ has a fraction of the original programming of Netflix, Peacock, Apple, Amazon, etc. but still costs $10 a month and will most assuredly continue to raise its prices based on the idea that there are either an infinite number of Star Trek fans or they will have to raise their prices.