The Phantom Menace.

Groups of highschool kids flooded into the local computer store to watch the Quicktime .mov load 1 frame at a time over the ISDN line in 1999. And of course the first 20 seconds of the trailer was literally fog, keeping us on the edge of our seats.

I would like to know the demographics of the people who still watch the Simpsons. They are out there. There are many of them.

I intentionally installed the Xbox Game Bar a few years ago. After doing so, it associated my Xbox login with my Windows PC, and linked the 2, switching my Windows10 user to my Xbox login.

Hard pass.

My response was to switch to Linux.

I guess we’ll find out when the Big Short 2 comes out.

It actually is a ghost town. There’s so little engagement, and even the upvote-counts seemingly aren’t obfuscated, and are super low.

There’s also already a lot of conservative trolls who will flame for “MUH SPEECH” if you suggest that they’re an annoying conservative. “Hey man, I’m just asking the questions”. In a ghost town, they appear louder.

My theory is that people just don’t want to comment anymore. We all learned our lesson. If we comment, we just feed the AI beast. I’m not offering my insights and opinions so that you can scrape them.

People have been falling in love with scammers for as long as there have been people.

Be there for your loved ones.

Slave labour.

Do you want to be paid $0.0001 per widget you produce 12hrs per day, 7 days a week? Because that’s how you get cheap things.

The world found a place that had people that desperate.

Hockey requires manufactured ice.

Most of the world can’t make a suitable surface for most of the year.

Saskatchewan can make enough to field a whole league of players.

No. I get introduced to people who are “like me” and I don’t like them off the hop.

I recently hung out with my own father, and when he would say words that were in my head, they sounded awful.

People like me. I have friends. I like my friends. But I do question their judgement being friends with me.

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The deposit for a cyberstuck was $150. The package was valued at $16k.

Being happy about lies being exposed is good, but spreading a false narrative about it is bad.

Air Fryers.

It’s a tiny convection oven.

A good while back, Chrome was superior. Faster yes, but also more polished and intuitive as browsers go.

Also, Google was “Do no Evil”, and Firefox was good, but not great.

Today, Firefox is still good, and Google is evil.

Fair. Chromium.

Consumer grade Linux Mint is impossible to differentiate from Windows/MacOS.

Install Firefox. Install Chrome. Install Steam.

Test it out on an old laptop or computer. It’s trivial. Your life will improve.

The USA wants a world where AI wants is given permission to consume all copyrighted content for free, but we are charged for access to scholarly papers.