Wasn’t diagnosed until 52. Wish I would have realized what was going on decade’s ago. So much could have been different.

Counterpoint:

I wrote a book. Sold maybe 10 copies. If someone “pirated” my book, they are depriving me of the $2 or whatever Kindle Direct pays.

Admittedly not a significant amount, but it does fulfill the definition, imho.

I mean, they are roll-ey AND poll-ey, so it makes sense.

Buy some congress people and get them to vote for things like public transport, universal Healthcare, etc.

US-centric, obviously

Maybe go ask her? Like, “hey, what was that all about?” And see what she says.

You may never know…

I don’t know if it even has a name, bit if I’m driving and traffic stops with me under a bridge, I’m always afraid it is going to collapse on me. Especially if big trucks are going over the top.

A’www… I love YouTube.

Married 30 years. Eyebrow position and, “eh?”

“Eh.”

And we are pretty much on the same page.

Ooh! Morse code with tongue clicks!

Depression = twice in the last month. I have an appointment to adjust my medication.

If the parents took the computer out of the room, told OP that they could not put the computer back in the bedroom, and used parental controls to limit internet access, I would consider moving it back into the bedroom anyway and bypassing the limits as “open defiance”.

What is a “used” bedroom? As for flies, buy a pack of fly strips for a couple bucks. That should handle your introductory list of “oppression”.

All you are going to do is prove that your parents are right to not trust you. Consider why they don’t want you to have it in your room? What happened that they won’t allow it? Or maybe you need to prove you can be trusted with it first?

If this was one of my children acting in open defiance like this, the next step would be locking the PC in a closet for a month, and then trying again with it downstairs. To allow them to earn trust back.

This is not the way.

As long as you realize free speech means free from prosecution, not free from consequences.

I like pyramids!

Earth Girls Are Easy

Throwing out a vote for "Dungeon Crawler Carl "

Ak-shoo-ah-lee, there are some old industrial control systems that worked in octal (base 8).

It is the worst bastardization of mathematical knowledge ever committed by mankind, and I hate it with the burning passion of a thousand suns.

Also, the Commodore 1541 floppy drive had a serial transfer rate of 2 bytes per second. Nothing loaded quickly in the 80’s either.

They did warn you that it was your PERMANENT record…

My son says, “A futon is a very honest piece of furniture. It has F U right in the name.”