First, let me say I appreciate both this and your main response. I agree it is a backwards mentality.

But if I may offer some feedback on the remainder of your post: in my opinion, anyone that use words or substitutions like “M$” or “Micro$oft” or whatever immediately strike me as a person not engaging in good faith, and trying to rile others up for likes or upvotes; but not looking to engage in serious discourse.

You’re welcome to your opinion, and I might even agree with it and the sentiment behind it, but using 20 year old memes that were only leveraged by teenagers when WinXP was retired and likely never bought a Microsoft product anyway probably isn’t going to resonate.

Please do not take this as my endorsement of Microsoft — it is not — but I also want to have a meaningful discussion and not just trade memes and quotes back and forth in a big circle-jerk against “M$”.

Finally, please know my intention here is not to be mean to or humiliate you. Text doesn’t have the nuance of intonation and inflection of an in-person conversation, and this message may suffer from the same. Please feel free to message me if you’d like to discuss further outside this forum.

Thanks for your thrilling contribution.

Christ, what an asshole

“This is too hard. I quit!”

Fucking loser bitch.

Look, isn’t there something you can do?

Still time to go get another.

“We’ve found a lot of videos online, and we’re going to keep watching until you stop making them!”

What the fuck?

Well that’s a confusing headline. Took me a few tries to parse it.

Too late, fuckers. Subscription is staying cancelled and I’m not coming back.

Well people can be in the designated area, and you’re right I can avoid that, but it’s not like the smoke magically stays in that area, too. It’s much easier, cheaper, cleaner, and generally more profitable for the business to just ask you to go out to the sidewalk or whatever.

I had the same reaction as a smoker. It’s really not all bad, and as a now non-smoker, it’s great to not wake up the next day to the clothes I wore to the bar smelling like an ashtray, so I now understand the complaints.

And it saves you, the smoker, money because you’re not chain smoking sitting at the bar anymore.

At the end of the day, though, a beer drinker sitting next to a wine drinker is a bit different than a smoker sitting next to a non-smoker, so the whole “you’re already at a bar!” argument is pretty disingenuous and doesn’t really go far with me.

I don’t smoke anymore, but when I did a lot of these types of bans came into effect, and even as a smoker I really came to appreciate it. When I did finally quit, it was nice to not have to deal with smoke everywhere.

You didn’t need to include the quote for your point to stand.

Ok, Millennial. ;)

Snark aside, my local library actually does offer digital access for those that want to use a phone or eReader as their primary consumption method. You should check if yours offers the same! Any effort that gets people reading and thinking is a good thing, in my mind.

It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

Yes?

Rage against the dying of the light, always. But sooner or later the end will come for us all, and that’s the part that’s the hardest to accept on an individual level, in my opinion. I still get the occasional existential crisis.

Instead, be glad that you’re here now and do what you can to make the world better for yourself, your neighbors, and society as a whole while you are. That’s all any of us can hope to do. Leave it a little nicer than we found it.

They’ll do anything to not take care of the kids already here that need parents and support.

Yep. Rejoin and the British Pound dies. No special deals this time.