Your search engine in a very real way is your internet. Nearly everything you see online starts there.

If you aren’t paying for it, someone else is. And the reason they’re paying, is to make sure you get the internet they want; Not the one you want. If you want the internet to be what you want, you have to be the one to pay for it.

I don’t know where you live, but in most of the developed world $10 is roughly the cost of a single lunch. Not even a fancy one. What’s worth more to you? An inexpensive lunch? Or making sure the internet you see in your search, is what you want to see, instead of what someone else wants you to see?

Because the director tells us to, so people can see our discomfort without having to say “I really really really need to pee.”

Since Amazon now owns James Bond, I’d bet they’ll be an Amazon Prime.

I wouldn’t call it being lazy when one app already contains your payment details, and is a familiar interface. Why go through the hassle of ordering on the restaurant site, which may not allow ordering without an account or have a horrid order portal?

Because they charge more, and the local business gets less of it.
But I may not be the one to ask, I just pick up the pizza myself.

Within the context of a story understood to be fiction:

Smiting and wrath are actions. They don’t require emotions exactly. Break the rules, get punished. Fork around on a ladder, find out how fast the ground moves. Not because the ladder is angry, but because you forked up.

Being “upset” could simply be people writing about their own understanding of God. Remember it was all written by people. And not like they were copying words as God literally dictated them. But through “revelation”. They were “given” “understanding”. As in the ideas kind of miraculously kind of popped onto their heads. So it’s all limited to what they could comprehend.

Knowing nothing about the situation, I can see at least couple interpretations of what this might be saying.

You need to post a link for that. The image doesn’t help anyone

That’s where the philosophical argument comes in.
If you don’t want to see something or comment on it, that’s your choice. But it’s not a choice you should be able to make for others. They have the right to express themselves, just as you do. You wouldn’t be happy if someone silenced you. If they trashed you and you couldn’t respond because they “blocked” you.

Is it?
Everything is inherently public. Every post and comment is available to anyone with an account and everyone without one. All one would have to do is log out to see all your stuff again. You can’t really block people from seeing you, when everything is always public.

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If they called out D&D as satanic

It’s not 1990 anymore. Almost everyone is a gamer these days.
It’s a bigger industry than the global movie box office.
You have no idea how much work goes into being really good at a game.

This sounds ridiculous on it’s face.
But anyone with experience playing RTS games should realize with only a few moments thought, those players are perfect for the job.

How is this Oniony?

Of course not. That’s the point. We don’t want it to work that way

Economy or not, having one person who needs to take care of two elderly parents, themselves, and 0.75 kids isn’t great. That’s not the goal

The dude was conflating a number of things.
Teen birth rate is down the most, at 7% in 2025. 70% since 2005. Overall births are down slightly last year.
Overall we have a sub replacement birth rate of 1.53 per woman.

The last one is a societal problem. But just saying we need women to have more kids isn’t a solution. You need to find out why people don’t want to have as many kids. Which I would bet is almost entirely economic. Kids are a large long term expense. And if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, with an uncertain financial future, a kid is a scary prospect.

Ever see Star Trek?
A lot like that.

I always like to point out that they were originally called Generation Me. They were the first generation studied, who were more concerned with self fulfilment, than social responsibility.

People need to get used to paying for things online.
If more people are willing to do it, the cheaper it can be for each of us.

If your news is free, it’s trying to sell you something.