Oh I’m aware 😉 I have an old copy of his short story compilation, “Buy Jupiter” and he comes right out and says it in the author’s notes.

Longest shaggy dog story ever.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has been my model 😉 And Wired aside, it does work phenomenally well. But I will take a look at your suggestion.

I use Block This! on my Android device, which essentially a pseudo-VPN that blackholes ad requests (as well as some trackers and miscellany). Wired bounces me immediately if I have it enabled.

They also paywall some ad-blockers.

I feel personally attacked

I would argue that a live-in landlord that does maintenance work or acts as a building super is in fact doing a job.

Otherwise, agreed.

Anyone have a non-paywall link?

I’ve seen things! They’re often in disguise

What’s Reddit’s Tencent ownership percent?

https://archive.is/Acnze unpaywalled

Yeah, it’s definitely not as widely-known a thing as it should be. Plenty of perfectly respectable bands play there too, still… but also some Nazis

If it’s in Clifton, those guys support white power bands 😕

I never knew a power metal cover of Stan Rogers was the thing I needed most in life, but here we are.

I think he means the illegal deployment of a debatably illegal state militia.

“Stressed depressed lemon zest”