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did 1983 predict the rise of “catalog shopping”? because I sure didn’t :)

no being a kiwi is an alternative to being fucking boring :)

hey now I make 10 bucks a year from streaming royalties. I can almost buy a fancy coffee with a shot of booze for that. Oh the life of an indie music artist.

if George Carlin was still alive he’d do a stand-up special about this titled “Everyone Is A Whore” or something equally subtle.

@BolexForSoup can you recommend a good quality Upscaler ?

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yes it does seem that way, but have you considered that maybe we should just all give all of our money to Microsoft and then just die of poverty? It would make their reports look so much nicer.

THEY HAD ONE JOB

remember how many years ago most news sites morphed into At least one DT story a day sites?

I just want to mention the clever graphic design of the Illustration by Ben Kothe

but you should buy stuff from Smorkyaplorb Megasystems because they give the best kickbacks

holy shit I’m so glad I got out of I.T.
What the fuck is any of that

In Canada in the 1980’s there was a short TV commercial about media literacy portrayed as a nature documentary, about the endangered Canadian House Hippo. After 15 seconds the commercial pauses and a voice asks if you actually believed what you were seeing, encouraging viewers to think critically about what they saw on TV.

These days the closest thing to that is snopes.com , and people have to actively seek that out. Without the House Hippo it is us who are endangered.

maybe you just hate your coworkers? :)

Microsoft submitted video evidence during their Antitrust trial in the late 90’s that had been edited together, but was being presented as unedited. i.e. they tried to pull the wool over the DOJ’s eyes, because why not? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-on-trial-ms-videotape-not-what-it-seemed/

They included IE4 in Win98 - that was seen as anticompetitive. Compare that to everything they do today. Or everything Apple does today (like, literally everything). It’s shocking that something like including IE with win98 was worth pursuing, but yet everything since then was just how big business does big business.

I was just about to mention the goldfish “driving the tank” robotics project. I’m still betting it was inspired by the old joke:

There are two goldfish in a tank. One says “How the hell do you drive this thing?”

Don’t we all.

that site has a great interface, lots of ways to sort data in useful ways.
Other sites could learn a thing or two from whoever did their UI

Good! Use your distracted feelings, boy. Let the scroll flow through you!

Martha did time. She should pick who goes next.