Almost 38, I spend all my free time with my wife. Started off more balanced before we moved for my work, and the more I focused on time with her, the happier we were. I hang out with work friends occasionally.

My pre marriage friends became vile, Trump-worshipping, incel assholes, so I am very content with my decisions.

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What a great comment from an infrequent commenter. Thank you! This was a lovely read, good points, and I shared with my wife.

Ahhh I missed that one! Appreciate it, I will probably move to mullvad next renewal.

I don’t remember all the details but their CEO said some unprompted pro Trump things and the retraction was halfhearted. That, combined with a couple cases like freezing journalists accounts that may or may not have been compromised (thus permissible to freeze imo), harmed their reputation among this community.

I’m not in the loop enough to be an expert so please correct me. Their solutions currently work for me as a rando nobody that wanted a fast VPN that wasn’t YouTuber shilled.

To anyone who ventures this far, enjoy this relevant Simpsons reference

I’ve seen rebuttals that this was an advertising firm embellishing capabilities to sell themselves, which…maybe. But I have too many anecdotal experiences to believe that.

Last month, my wife and I talked about how we hate Morgan Wallen. Never even typed his name until this post. And yet, after the discussion, she had IG sponsored posts for his out of state concert and Alexa had ads for him on Amazon music. Both within 2 days of the conversation.

I threw out the Alexa, increased Pinhole block lists, and we just leave our phones in another room in airplane mode for some topics.

Would you like to play again?

Upvote for a fellow Leeja Miller fan

Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of Hell created thee?!

I’ve thought about this quote a lot since the election lol. Timeless.

What horrible people and a horrible employer. I hope you’re some place incalculably better now!

One of the best channels out there

I only hate Musk and love Star Trek. Does that mean I’m not a true Lemmy?

“Wake up…and smell the ashes.”

Loved Age of Mythology! A lot of those still get stuck in my head more than 10 years later

Incredible answer! I saved this with my running list of great quotes and passages.

Watched a guy with an iPad stuffed down the front of his pants walk out through a metal detector. The outline and part of the box were very visible.