For me, it was AIM chatrooms and ebaums forums, maybe the super early days of Skype (before being sold to Microsoft obviously). Shit did feel more real, and while content maybe didn’t come out at the same frequency, and there sure was shit, you just knew you were talking about it with other people. Made some good friends back then, would’ve been cool to stay in touch, but 20+ years is a long time.

Wait, you can secure SSDs and not just kinda push em in there?!

Except the old trick with these matchbooks was to fold it back and close it over to make those paper matches easy to light, so you’re ultimately looking at brown paper, and so that’s how Brown Paper won the election that year.

You and OP are two peas in a pod.

If anyone recalls, OP also posted a picture of their garbage can complaining about how garbage bags were somehow improperly manufactured. I want to believe this is a troll account, but I’m concerned that OP is someone who legitimately needs some help, and not the kind you get from message boards. This is the same OP whose response to jokes was to say their ASVAB scores were high.

I came into this post thinking it was gonna be a silly “kids these days” post, and ended up having OP tell us she’s concerned the children she birthed are not hers somehow. It am not a psychologist in the slightest, but I can’t help but think there is something just not right.

That’s only 30% of toes, unless we’re going by overall volume.

Right? It’s the basic test. I have come to terms that I’m really basically smart, but when things get more detailed I’m pretty regular.

I was so smart I became an 11 though, instead of perhaps a job with life skills, for a life other than LEO. No regrets though, made some lifelong friends, got stupid tattoos, visited some cool places, and I get $170 a month for tinnitus.

Do you have recycle and trash? It’s the way to go. I bag the trash but I dump the recycling into the large can outside and then reuse that dirty bag for garbage. I’m essentially saving the world.

Nice to know there are others out there! Great bins, unlike poor OP.

I will commiserate with you. I think the shape of that can is ultimately your issue. In fact, I know it is, I’ve seen that can and anytime I’ve seen it, the bag looks like yours. So you’re not alone.

As an aside, if you intend on joining the military, especially if you enlist, nobody cares about your ASVAB score, and if you wield it like a weapon, others will use it against you. I knew ASVAB waivers who had quick wit. I served with dudes who paraded around their conventional intelligence and had a tough time making friends, and only when they dropped the whole smart guy act did they fit in better.

Your post tickled my funny bone tonight. I wish you well and I hope you can “adapt and overcome” as it relates to this issue.

Think you nailed it. But then we can’t make jokes about this post anymore.

I love that you came here and I think everything you said is fair.

I love OP’s response though, this whole thread is hilarious.

I took my ASVAB in 2009, so unless it’s in my SRB somewhere, you’ll have to take my word for it.

I did upload a picture of my garbage though, that should be proof enough.

I knew some very intelligent individuals in the military. We were all enlisted and we all knew how to put a shit can liner in a shit can. And not one of us went around waving our ASVAB dick around.

Love a good old fashioned OP roast though.

So smart you joined the military.

I can say that because I was a 99 ASVAB and a dumb grunt.

Tinfoil never goes bad, it can’t hurt to stock up!!!

Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!

I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.

Appreciate the clarification. It sure feels like something after the period, not before.

Are you saying 11 is just a reskinning? Or are you saying my laptop is 10?

Yes, it’s SysAdminWorld for sure, and I’m reminded of it on any post that’s even remotely tangentially related to Windows.

Nail on the head.

Also, I’ve been msconfig’g and removing programs from Windows for the past 20+ years. It’s always been something you just do in Windows.