I was just making a joke, but don’t doubt that you’re right. It’s a tough thing to measure as people aren’t always honest. Like if somebody took a poll in 1986 asking folks if they smoked weed, paranoia might cause smokers to say no

Premarital sex being taboo sped things up

Cheaper to buy a coconut

Shit, in the US you now gotta swipe a credit card to buy air. TO BUY AIR!

Maybe if we weren’t weird about sex, folks wouldn’t need to fuck a balloon.

Yeah I felt I dated myself by talking about listening to the radio. I don’t know if this is of any help to you: I started taking guitar lessons at 50 and although I may never perform publicy, I enjoy just playing alone or with a few jam buddies. Around the same time I started going to punk shows again and after a little time made friends with some of the regulars (just like old times). Covid and inflation derailed that but I still make it out a few times a year. We all have our own personal obstacles though

When you picture God what skin color do you see? What gender do you see?

I don’t doubt you’re right nobody cares about the lowly pigeon, in fact some cities encourage nesting of raptors to keep their population in check. I do doubt any protected birds are allowed to be kept. Hawks are very common where I live, seeing a red tail or cooper’s hawk is a daily occurance where I live so I assume the regulations are for humane treatment rather than preservation. My friend and his son came across a dead bald eagle while hiking and they kept it as they had a large skull collection. I looked it up and as you said it’s against the law with very steep penalties so I advised him to make sure his son kept his mouth shut in school.

While listening to the oldies radio station and hearing music that was popular while you were in high school

There’s a homing pigeon club not far from where I live.

I once went down a rabbit hole looking at falconry. In my state its heavy regulated, it’s probably the same with pigeons.

I got my first “home computer” for Christmas in the early 80’s. A TRS-80 CoCo with 16k RAM. After sending in the warranty information I started receiving nerd junk mail some of which I’m pretty sure I still have somewhere. One is an add for internet access from Compuserve. It cost $7 an hour IIRC. You had to use dial up and call long distance to Columbus, OH which probably cost somewhere around 50 cents a minute using my 1200 baud modem. Young teenage me couldn’t afford the luxury. I also received a slender book of websites. Domain names weren’t a thing so you had to know the ip address of what you wanted to look up. BBS’s were more accessible to me. Sometimes in the early 90’s I fumbled around on a computer at the library and saw weather forecasts and another time I searched Lexusnexus for an article about modifying hand held GPS units to increase accuracy. The public wasn’t allowed the accuracy the military had (US). By the time the internet caught on thanks to AOL I hadn’t messed with computers for ten years but picked it right back up now with a 36.6k modem. I know this is going to sound gross but I remember some of the earliest news reports regarding the internet were about pervs using it to share child porn. Does anyone else remember this? BBS’s were used by mob bookies to take gambling bets. IIRC the Supreme Court decided the owners were responsible for monitoring and preventing the mob from doing this. Obviously this was all quite awhile ago and my memory is fallible

Just spitballing here. These grand ideas good/bad practical/or not are the beginning of mankind learning how to geo engineer planets or moons. I’ll be long dead before I get proven right or wrong so it’s easy to spitball

Poop. I was hoping I could leave a review but can’t

Moral of the story? Don’t be kicking down people’s doors

They peaked with Jaws 3D. No other credits since. I wonder what Kit has been up to?

This man shits worthless click bait out of his mouth daily, why does media fall for it?

One of the reasons I went cold turkey on video games is because TF2 would tell you how much time you spent playing each character

Accept the fact that no matter what choice you make there will always be times when you’ll look back and think “what if?”.

When I was a kid back in the 70’s there was a woman with a spider monkey who lived in the same trailer park as my grandfather. She rode around on a bike with it on her shoulder and would stop when my sister and I were visiting. We were never allowed to pet it, we’d watch while the lady fed it clovers.

Look up cognitive dissonance. It’s basically how people justify saying one thing and doing another. We’re all prone to it, everyone has their price