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

maybe Americans should start telling The Press that they won’t stand for it.

“NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small.”

That is fucking suave.

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

a) Certainly. b) FYI it’s “senseless drivel” which sounds almost exactly the same.

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.

He wants his own Ottoman Empire

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.

I feel like this will be shared uncritically by people who sincerely oppose women having “unsupervised female health decisions” et al.

a) yes

b) maybe he’ll be held accountable for this within the course of the next 20 years

brb writing a Highlander reboot featuring the Dionne Quintuplets

MTG literally feeling-up a cardboard cutout of TFG is SUPER weird. what in the sugar frosted fuck was that??? Southern republicans were fucking weird 20 years ago but god damn

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.