Sup.

Our washer died a couple of months ago so we had to hit the laundromat for awhile. Brought our own detergent of course, but we also got the dregs of whatever the last dozen or so people poured into the dispenser. It was like histamine roulette that landed on 00 suspiciously often.

Relevant CGP Grey

I resemble that remark.

Hyperlinks are a liberal psy-op. I’ll only click regular links.

That was absolutely beautiful.

I’m, uh, just gonna go back and grab a coat real quick.

flintstones_running.wav

The curse of Fëanor runs long

I used to enjoy the old Joystiq site. Followed them to Engadget. Hell, I used the Joystiq url redirect bookmark until it stopped working. Might as well just delete the bookmark now, no sense it watching it slide further into irrelevancy.

That’s what she said.

It could be worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Videodrome

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. I remember watching it as a teenager in the 90s and having no freaking clue what was going on.

You ever try emptying your clip at an entire Ikea?

No… but you probably just aroused a few dozen ammosexuals.

I hate that people in charge were never able to properly communicate this subtle difference.

It was communicated just fine. I got that info. You got that info. It was out there. But the signal to noise ratio was unreal. People seem to prefer soundbites and false dichotomies over accurate, nuanced information. Sprinkle in a metric shitton of wedge issue misinformation delivered via sledgehammer and you get what we got:

VACCINE BAD!

VACCINE GOOD!

GRANDPA HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL DIE!

VACCINE STILL GOOD!

I HAVE VACCINE BUT STILL GET SICK AND BOSS MAKE ME STAY HOME AND NO GET MONEY! VACCINE BAD!

VACCINE… BAD?

DOCTOR LIED! SCIENCE BAD!

Well actually…

YOU STUPID, VACCINE BAD!

VACCINE BAD!

COVID OVER, NO NEED VACCINE!

HOORAY!

The US loves the cartels. They get us all the drugs we consume and give us a lucrative market to sell our surplus small arms.

Shipping powders back and forth
Singin’ black goes south and white comes north

- John Perry Barlow

Apple sells refurbs. The headset hasn’t even been out two weeks yet. Give it time.

SciShow did a piece (partially) about this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEFQH5UXHQ

And Veritasium did a deeper dive a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA

The whole situation is thoroughly fucked up, but hey, as long as people are making money amirite? 😑

…damn. That was great.