Money. Criminals and immoral people pay good money to show these ads. At least for Facebook, a court case regarding identity fraud has established that they knew quite well which ads were fishy, so they just charged those advertisers more. If I remember correctly, that amounted to about 10% of Facebook’s revenue. It will be a similar case for Google, I assume. Sketchy ads pay too well to remove all of them and laws make it so the platform is only liable if they don’t take it down after receiving notice of every single sketchy ad. Google, Facebook, and the others are all well near monopoly and built deep moats, so they don’t really have to fear losing customers, because there’s no simple alternative.

That’s why it’s limited to 10 😌

Those hips don’t lie!

Anon casually cucking the date

Unpopular take: I actually found it pretty good. All characters got their screen time and the main characters all got a resolution that felt satisfying to me. The action scenes were good. I even liked the revelation of what the upside down really is, though I would’ve preferred a slightly different version of that explanation.

It’s just a much bigger country. While Europe is big, the countries are small and separated by their long national histories and unique languages. Europe is also much denser, so distances to stuff that matters are shorter.

UK: 30 miles in built-up areas, 70 miles on motorways. Most of Europe has 120 or 130 km/h (75 or 80 mph), except Germany which technically has no general speed limit on the Autobahn.

Badlands conspiracy theorist!! Have you actually been there, huh?? I think not! The bad lands are a conspiracy to keep us all from wandering out!! Wake up sheeple!!1!

Parents of that kid paying for the 67th tooth: By God, what have we created?

Adding to this, and with a side note that this is not my field of expertise, my reading of a few articles from the “tsunami” of articles about male loneliness is that they don’t just focus on quantitative but also qualitative differences of social connections between men and women at large. There’s this hypothesis that close female friendships tend to be more intimate than close male friendships. This is also supported by anecdotal evidence I heard from trans-men, that the absence of love and caring in their new male-male friendships hit them like a truck after socially transitioning, compared to previous (perceived female-female /) egg-female friendships. So I don’t know whether self-reported data like number of close friends is a good metric, or if it would be more informative to ask “how many friends do you have for whom you know the names of their parents” or “how often did you talk to a friend about your feelings this month” or whatever. Again, this is all anecdotal, but this is a vibe I’m getting from other reports on this topic that I was missing in this article. Still, very good article with many valid points, particularly in the second half.

All I see is

Wow, spooky. I may steal this as a cryptic clue for a private TTRPG campaign.

When you’re chilling in the desert with your cool mask and neither hockey, machetes, nor youth camps will be invented for another couple thousand years sad serial killer noises

Hey, shooters gonna shoot their shots

That sounds like a perfect match, actually.

Note to self: Don’t play Toby Maguire for money. Just in case he asks.

It is unilateral. They have no contract with Google. Google is expected to fight back. I use various hardened Firefox forks on all my devices and mostly Nextpipe for YT, so I don’t much care, but that’s the background.

Are you trying to doxx me?! gasp

You see, that’s why OP always carries a second phone: To photograph the first one not falling into the gutter

Shut up and take my upvote already. And you too, OOP!