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  • Lots of comments in this thread about all the understanding "80 year olds" need and don't have, lol.

    And every single one of them ignoring the fact that not only did some "80 year olds" develop the technology they use today and can dance rings around them, even the most technologically impaired among them have kids and grandkids, family and friends, who gladly do it all for them anyway.

    Grandpa doesn't need to know jack shit about torrenting or how scene groups work; all he needs is someone who does, if he doesn't already grok it himself.

  • Man, NO ONE who was sentient during the Bush Sr administration saw this coming. All I remember about Dan Quayle was him getting pilloried on SNL, repeatedly, for being almost too stupid to breathe -- either completely absent from the national conversation or getting mocked -- and here he is saving the country.

    I did not see that coming at all. Glad and very, very relieved the jokes were wrong.

  • Yes, that is exactly right. That started sometime in the summer of 2016: they suddenly stopped apologizing, and haven't apologized since. I remember that's when it changed; some R had some new scandal (no surprise) but his response was basically, "So?" and that was kind of a shock. It's like the fix was in, and of course now we know that it was.