Mercenaries are just doing what they are told. Without publicly funded independent media, that’s what you get.

If their overlords give them a poop cake, they happily eat them, if people who actually care for them give them a healthy meal, they’ll throw it to the ground, claiming “I’m not part of the system”, and “I’m an adult” while acting like children.

Step 1: oligopoly. Step 2: Make less stuff, make it worse, and make it more expensive. Step 3: Use the wealth hoarded that way to make it easier to become a monopoly.

I know all about etymology and language evolution.

I still think it’s stupid to write “EAU” to say “O”.

“Stop using everyone’s words in the order everyone uses them; they are my words, and they are my order”.

It’s easier to understand in the context of the past when they had things like sacrificing a goat for stuff. It’s just another form of ritual sacrifice.

They kidnapped each other.

If your laptop doesn’t keep a week of battery life on a full load after a year sitting in Death Valley, can’t be used to deflect bullets without any damage to it, and can’t hold a 16-wheeler jacked up while you change its tires, and still run Cyberpunk 2077 modded at max settings afterwards, better get a desktop instead.

Suppression is often countered with flooding tactics.

The strip stops working when it shows Joe Rogan with a surprised face instead of mindlessly agreeing with whatever corporate grifter he has in front of him at any given moment.

Gimp, Paint.Net, VLC…

A little bit of hope for a future more like Star Trek and less like Wall-E.

It would appear that the US got tired of all the jokes comparing them to the movie Idiocracy, so they decided to make themselves into Team America: World Police instead.

If a store has electronic price tags, or no price tags, I outright leave.

Feminism isn’t just about women.
Toxic masculinity isn’t caused just by men.
Black Lives Matter isn’t just about black lives.
“Believe women” isn’t about blindly believing what women say. “Christian charity” is the least charitable thing in the world.
“Defund the police” and “abolish the police” aren’t about eliminating police forces and letting crime run rampant.
AI is anything but intelligent.
“Global Warming” sounds tame for what’s actually happening: “climate disruption” and “climate catastrophe”. A bunch of countries with “communist” or “democratic” in their names are anything but.

Words are stupid. Slogans are lazy. People lie.

Which is why I like the lyrics of ‘Enjoy the Silence’ so much.

The more someone says nothing is changing and everything is going to be ok, the more I think something nasty is going on.

A lot of people are seem to be fans of murder.

Personally, I see it as a waste. I’m partial to creating a project to establish a mining colony in the asteroid belt, and sending them there, never to return.

It isn’t one species. It’s a bunch.

X should be expriorpiated, renamed back to Twitter, and made into a public non-profit service that runs on his taxes.

Where is my flying car? I don’t want a freaking drone with a seat. I want something that defies gravity without any visible external mechanism and makes little to no noise while moving.

This is why I have always waited for the version that is just like the previous ones, but fixed. 3.11, 98SE, XP SP2, 7, 10…

I need to get a new computer, and it has to have windows, but I’m not getting freaking Win11. Gimme Win12.