Friend of mine met his now wife as the very first woman he matched with on whatever app he used 10 years ago or so, and he can't fathom why I wouldn't give it a shot now.
You got fuckin lucky JOHN and the apps were free and weren't enshittified to keep you paying money to stay on the treadmill forever. Never mind that where I live now, I can throw a rock into a crowd of random people and have a 1/10 shot of hitting a cousin.
Yeah, that was fun to hear as someone that lives in Perry. My brother works at the school and missed the shooting because he stopped at the gas station to buy a drink instead of going straight to work.
Buddy of mine visited after some time in the army and I had to stop him from beating some other dude's ass because they accidentally let their flag graze the ground barely, I'll never understand loving the symbol of the people you supposedly joined up to protect over the ACTUAL FUCKING PEOPLE themselves. Thankfully, that behavior and the PTSD he got from being in the middle east for a while seem to have subsided.
I don't think they do, most of the MS doomerism I see implies they probably never tried to turn any of it off. I uninstalled one drive years ago along with turning off the ads and telemetry and its all stayed that way ever since, but I keep getting told all of it will be back with the next update. I update when it prompts me to and it never undoes my settings.
The problem is that it seems like they probably just labeled people they don't like as pedos and went from there.