I like being able to check how busy a place is, but not like this. Simple head count or an average wait time is good. Using web cams is creepy overkill. Typical tech bro invasive shit.

Horse With No Name. Has a limited vocal range, and the humans will give no love.

Invest in aluminum foil now.

If Biden gets re-elected, and behind the scenes it’s really Kamala Harris and/or Jill Biden in charge… I’m OK with that. Trump will accelerate all the bad things. From climate change to hollowing out the working class to kissing Putin’s ass and worse.

Thanks! I will see what they have. Didn’t know Harvard offered free courses.

Some tropes of the 80s and 90s: Teenagers ignoring their family while listening to a Walkman. Dads reading the newspaper and ignoring their family. Moms talking on the landline phone with friends and neighhbors. Nerds reading comic books. Dads playing golf. Mom shopping. Teens just “hanging out” at some random place like a parking lot, near a lake, under a bridge, behind the band hall, etc. Smoking. Crossword puzzles. Jigsaw puzzles. Cards.

You can vote for more than one candidate, but you rank them by order of preference. This way, third party and independent candidates actually have a chance.

I try to remember that we’re voting for an entire administration and presidential appointments, an apparatus much larger than one old man. It’s cold comfort, but it’s something.

As I’m watching it, Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is playing in my head.

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I had a buddy in the UK I chatted with on this thing in the early days. We thought we were so cool using it. We were not.

I need to rewatch the episode, but I also felt like his recognition of him went deeper than “oh yeah, you’re that guy we saw in the street before with Mae”. Same thing with Yord. I could be way off here, but I felt like both of them had some kind of actual history with him. And maybe they didn’t realize it until he was up close and personal, because he was much older / different.

Researchers will be studying Trump and his followers for decades to come. A gold mine of data to help them better understand the mechanisms of authoritarian populism and cognitive dissonance.

And Nadella looks like the PTA meeting version of Lex Luthor.

Cool guys use dialup BBS.

Yup. They violate HIPAA all the time, too. Rules for thee, not for me.

Oh cool, Cunningham’s Law in action.

Here’s an updated way to bypass it. This Youtuber is a little cheerful-cheesy, but the info is good.

https://youtu.be/Mn9bhG4nWeI?si=Rw-q1HfDmsisLy30

That’s not what we’re talking about and you know it. False narrative. The article specifically mentions violence and bullying. If you don’t know that fat people also get viciously bullied on top of the “concerned about your health” from loved ones, you are the one who is isolated from reality.