This is the reason I buy physical media, rip it to my home server and use Plex. No suggested bullshit. No ads at all.

How do you do that with paid services? What does your setup look like? Because I can't figure out how to do that using commercial products.

I'm betting they don't notice if I file down the corners. Hell they probably wouldn't notice if I just cut the corners off with a fret saw. But God forbid I try to install an ad blocker or use Firefox.

I would be interested in statistics related to the percent of adults who would be considered child predators. I have zero scope on how large this issue is by percent of population.

If we're talking about 3% of everyone who is sexually attracted to children, that's one thing, but if it's .0000001% then the issue really is just the producers of content.

Does anyone here know of any studies or statistics? My basic googling hasn't really turned up anything trustworthy.

Dewberries are a real bitch to get started and don't produce a ton of fruit, but are EASILY the best berries you'll ever eat in your life. The native variety are very tart compared to bred plants, but they're legitimately the best things that you can grow. If you have a spot where grass doesn't grow well, plant these!!

The grubs are gross and kind of a pain. You'll have a tank you have to keep close watch on for a couple years that is only dirt, because they don't really come out.

If you want big old bugs that are easy and cool, get Cameroon train millipedes. You used to be able to get African giant black millipedes, but there is a mite that destroyed that trade. But the train millipedes are almost as big. They're shockingly low maintenance and love eating vegetable scraps. And if you have a male and at least one female you are almost guaranteed to have a million billion babies at some point.

Now they have the trucks that dump the bins without getting out of the truck. The driver's make $18/hr.

Here's my fun everything likes to eat chickens story. When we first built our house, nobody had ever lived within about 2 miles of our farm. There were coyotes everywhere. So I spent a couple years trapping and shooting them after they ate a couple of my chickens. Then came the racoons. They ate some chickens so back to trapping and shooting. Then weasels and minks. Except they could get into the coop through the windows in the wall that were covered in wire and 6' off the ground. So, more traps. Now it's bobcats. Oh, and don't forget the stupid red-tailed hawks and BALD FUCKING EAGLES as well. No trapping or shooting those bastards.

Everything. Everything eats chickens. I'm surprised I haven't seen a damn frog eating one of them.

People Google things they're going to buy. Or at the very least they go to other places they're familiar with like Walmart (for the US).

It was weird.

Seeing their setup is actually what spurred me to put together a coop at home to run fiber for the county.

Adams definitely knows what they're doing when it comes to managing resources in a rural area

No idea which is accurate, that's just a consistent theme from almost every conversation when I was consulting there.