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Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of parents with kids as old as 10 in carts at the grocery store, and those kids are sitting there staring at a tablet or a phone.

As young as 2, also.

It’s constant and nonstop and they don’t look up for anything.

I’m concerned.

Brought to you by the Space Pope.

I saw all this fuss yesterday and checked on my laptop and sure enough, mine was unchecked.

Mine has a setting where if a number calls you once, it blocks. If it calls you a second time, it goes through. And it works! I use it all the time.

It was Number Five. Number Five killed my brother.

I know a lot of people still have terrible fanfiction they wrote as teens on the internet somewhere, so the warning is very appropriate.

Slashdot was founded 26 years ago. I’m almost 40, so when I say this, I mean it-

Don’t condescend to young people about being children. You’re just old now. Embrace it. Explain things nicely or be one of those old people we hated when we were young.

“An albino humping worm!”

“Why do they call it that?”

“Because it doesn’t have any pigment.”

In healthcare, in the US. I’ve had to do this. Last year, I spent 6 months doing it.

You really do wish you were dead.

I was already pissed, I didn’t need the punch to have a laugh.

I think notspez did it, but they did it as performance art, and I enjoyed it.

Mine was DACHEATED.

Growing up is learning you don’t have to win the online argument.

Wait. Not “growing up,” sorry, I just double-checked my notes and I meant to say “getting medicated.” Yes, that’s it.

I once gave my ex a hummer. He asked, “Is that the national anthem?”

I told him, “If you don’t cum, the terrorists win.” And returned to my work.

On a more modern one; this requires a bit of backstory.

If you’re familiar with bad dragon, they sell sex toys one might use if they have… specific? Tastes. My current boyfriend and I have mutually interesting tastes. He got a toy known as a wearable. It’s purpose is to put your dick in, then use it to screw your partner, and they have fantasy or fetishistic shapes. My boyfriend surprised me with one at Christmas, that would’ve fulfilled that fantasy, and despite buying the largest size, he is unable to wear it.

He and I were eating lunch at Sam’s Club. I was making several innuendos about how his cock is bigger than the hotdog. He was being intentionally obtuse. This week, on Wednesday, while he’s at work, I’m going to buy one of those hotdogs, put it inside the sex toy, and send him a picture (to prove that it can fit where he cannot). I’m going to caption it something funny (if you have any ideas please let me know) and since we had this conversation over a week ago, he’s going to be taken entirely by surprise, and laugh about it forever.

Entirely by accident I assure you.

You’re welcome to weird up your ads, also.

I saw… that. But what could someone advertise about it! And that’s a curiosity those links don’t answer…

I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing “semen stealing” into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.

I’m going to have some weird ads now…

I’m a big woman and let me say, let a thousand AI girlfriends bloom.

Yep. I was right. You turned a conversation about “women are being harrassed” into how upset you are that we aren’t talking about problems men face. If you want to advocate for the problems men face, actually do that, instead of bitching when we are discussing problems women face.