Orwell didn’t know he was also writing about the Entertainment-Industrial Complex.

I would love to have notable information pop up but we both know it would devolve into something between Ow My Balls and the RESUME VIEWING episode of Black Mirror.

you know how banks will say “Past performance of financial securities does not represent potential future performance” or whatever: this is much the same thing. There are plenty of things that people freaked out about that turned out to be nothing much. There are plenty of things that people did not freak out about when they really should have. People are basically shit about telling the difference between them.

whatever shortens everyone’s attention span the quickest: it makes for efficient hoodwinking

the windows save menu has remained mostly the same since win3. Office products used the regular windows save menu for ages. Then suddenly they introduce a monstrosity that takes up the whole screen and throws decades of useful design out the window. If i describe it further I shall descend into madness

Same, but for Excel.

Also, JFC the save menu in Office 365 is Cthulhu-level madness.

Startup says it wants some more cocaine and wants to know if you know anyone with some more cocaine because some more cocaine would be fuckin’ great right now holy shit

it defaults to the shareware version

but talking to Farnham is not available in the shareware version.
What if I want to talk to Farnham? Maybe I had a rough week and just need someone to talk to. Farnham seems pretty chill.

and nobody in the Stanford audience had the balls to yell out “IT FUCKING IS” at him after he said it. Cowards and sycophants, all.

a) you’re right. Everyone who says this is right

b) If the senior leaders have designed their own ivory towers to force obsequious behaviour from their own people, they sure as shit won’t listen to totally reasonable analysis from people who don’t work for them. As such, they have engineered their own demise. I wish them well with it.

Scrolling through that website is just “Hmm, I think I see a pattern here” every time it comes up. Also I rediscovered the term “disgorgement” so that’s also a win.

brb writing a Highlander reboot featuring the Dionne Quintuplets

Always cut out the intermediaries.

In this vein: when you can, PAY CASH. Normalizing credit and debit transactions also normalized bleeding money from businesses to VISA, Mastercard, and whatever monster you bank with. They all suck. :) Businesses pay more for credit transactions than debit transactions, so use debit if the business doesn’t take cash.

Next thing you know, Musky will order staff to create entirely false tweets on official accounts and lock the accounts so the false tweets can’t be deleted. He will burn that entire company to the ground to get TFG back in.

It would be ironic

It would be Fascism.

they haven’t been WHAT by gay furries??

Thunderdome was already taken

oh, for a while there, it was close. things have changed even in the past 2 months since I wrote that comment.

I’m glad these devices have proved useful for people like yourself, even at the expense of your data. you take the bad with the good, as they say.

• Thankyou for the help.
• I tried the bullet list before and it didn’t seem to be working; it was probably me, though.
• let’s see if it works like this