Imagine being able to afford two specialists.

Doing something has proven useless as well.

Burger King can have a no burgers sign but McDonald’s can’t have a no frosty sign?

Yes I have already arrived at the conclusion that I’m on a planet ruled by psychotic apes and that I have no real agency beyond saying “Fuck you, I do what I want” which is to be nice because honestly it makes dealing with the apes more efficient.

And I’m saying I’ve been doing the little things and it doesn’t seem to be working

I’ve been doing it my entire life because I was raised right.

TIL holding open doors will stop technofeudalism and climate change.

Humans are very good at justifying their actions after the fact. There’s a lot of research about this, especially when our right brain does things our left brain doesn’t know about.

I know I’m getting sick when my boogers smell like peanut butter.

No idea why, but a couple days after I notice this I will have a sinus infection.

Maybe not Franklin. He’s on record as preferring older ladies.

lol, no, but thanks

I was commenting that even Disney has to deal with arbitrary paywalls

It’s paywalls all the way down

Given the demographics I’d be really surprised if we didn’t.

Bill! Bill! Bill!

It’s the same model as religion and cigarettes: Get ‘em hooked young and you have a customer for as long as they live.

When Apple was the underdog they wanted open standards, and weren’t above reverse-engineering things like the DOCX format to make software. Hell, the original graphing calculator was written by a guy who’d been fired but kept working because it was a passion project.

Now that they’re dominant they want the same walled garden that they accused Microsoft of making 30 years ago.

When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone

I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go

But I don’t want to see the stars if they’re just one more piece of land

For us to colonize, for us to turn to sand

- Penelope Scott, Rät

Every day I experience a novel disappointment with my species.

I never thought I’d see the phrase “orbital data centers” and not think it’s cool, but here we are.