Ironically that was the case for a good long while, and has been the case on exceedingly rare occasion in the more modern era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting_in_ancient_Rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#United_States

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39516346

More proof that if they were a new idea, libraries would be fought tooth and nail by book publishers

Neopets, GaiaOnline, MySpace, to name the biggest three

BMW should be liable for its drivers not using their turn signals.

The ultimate grift

It sucks but its also how the sausage is made at present.

Well there was the time that Gotham got kicked out of America during the Lex Luthor presidency.

Okay so the 2015 EOL ones, yeah I can understand telling the customer to update their shit. They shouldn’t have to support nearly 10 year out of date stuff.

May 2024 EOL ones? Bruh. C’mon now.

There is, variously:

1. Multiple Lazarus pits that are likely leaking into the water supply.
2. The other magic resurrection place, Slaughter Swamp.
3. A evil bat god (Barbatos) sealed in Gotham.
4. The Hell portal under the Asylum.
5. The Court of Owls secretly Illuminati’ing the place up.
6. Dr. Gotham, an evil warlock who was sealed under Gotham for millennia, radiating evil.
7. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was more then one company dumping shit into the water supply just to dodge having to pay to dispose of it properly, but compared to magical evil of varying degrees, it’s kind of a non-starter on the “This is why folks are nutso” chart.

My definition of “end”, in the form of analogy: Myspace still exists too, but its relevance is long over.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

I’m always reminded of this disasterpiece when I hear about trying stuff the libertarian way.

It was only twelve years ago they tried The Kansas Experiment, which failed so miserably they got rid of it a mere 5 years later in 2017. Mysteriously, doing the same thing has the same results.

On the plus side the high mortality rate should lower the spread.

He on that “reddit didn’t kill Digg, Digg killed Digg” mindset.

For reference: https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/submission/the-demise-of-digg-how-an-online-giant-lost-control-of-the-digital-crowd/

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2024/11/06/florida-60-percent-constitutional-amendments-weed-abortion

That vote was like… 57% to 43% in favor of abortion, and only failed because it needed to hit 60%. Ironically the amendment that made that requirement possible didn’t pass with 60% of the vote.

Personally I don’t use Notepad for writing writing. Its a functional writing app. A app for copying and pasting code, or making a list, or crude ascii art. If I need to bold something, or do text formatting, thats when I open up the several orders of magnitude larger office apps.

We elected a senile con man instead of a qualified woman [In 2016] because America has a deeply rooted misogyny problem.

I mean she also had a 20+ year smear campaign against her, that probably shaved a few votes I gotta imagine.

2008- Popular vote (D) 69,498,516 vs. [R] 59,948,323
2012- Popular vote (D) 65,915,795 vs. [R] 60,933,504
2016- Popular vote (D) 65,853,514 vs. [R] 62,984,828
2020- Popular vote (D) 81,283,501 vs. [R] 74,223,975
2024- Popular vote (D) 68,092,002 vs. [R] 72,747,033

Trump lost some voters. Kamala lost WAY more voters. Find out why 15 million voters overall didn’t vote. Or more particularly, find out why all those voters came out in 2020 and not in 2016 or 2024.

I use a app called KnownCalls that simply sends any call from outside my address book to voicemail. Works wonders.