I actually like Apple a lot more than I thought I would. But swipe typing on it is absolute dog shirt.

Can I interest you in having to scan a QR code every time you log in? How about opening YouTube?

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It’s a trick question. It’s under a mountain of rock and completely destroyed. I have the best, most reliable source ever according to this administration — Donald Trump. I win!

Good thing Satan is a Judeo-Christian figure. But Russell’s Teapot is out. R’Amen.

A dead racist asshole and climate change denier. Which is the best kind.

You’ve missed the point, I’m afraid. The bar is someone’s individual feed, and the bartender is their blocklist (or their server’s federation list) deciding who gets to stay and who is thrown out on their ear.

You know that adage about how a bar turns into a Nazi bar? (Don’t get hung up on the word ‘Nazi’. The type of asshole is irrelevant to my point.) The decent ones are just the wedge.

The fedi-verse is big enough for me without assholes and asshole apologists.

If only there were a large pool of experts recently fired from the Justice department by the exact administration they would need to investigate. Wouldn’t that be something?

Imagine if programs were built for efficiency again…

I’m pretty sure someone could vibe code truth social over a weekend.

Half of Congress would probably be perfectly happy caucusing with the other team. They don’t care and tout whatever party line gets them paid. AIPAC and MORON-PAC (i.e. MAGA pocketbooks) have been very lucrative partnerships for them.

All I’m saying is it’s probably all a dog and pony show for Jeffreys. He probably has no interest or stomach for a protracted fight when they can just coast and give some lip service.

Appreciate her beauty and remember it is ephemeral. With a few exceptions, all of us look mid at best by 50, let alone 70. Beauty is beautiful to look at. I appreciate beauty, but I wouldn’t trade my wife for the most beautiful woman in the world.

My uncle has a way of putting this: no matter how great a woman is, someone, somewhere, is sick of her shit. I generously assume he also meant for that to apply with the genders reversed.

They get a lot of money because the company and investors that create genuine AI win capitalism. We’re in the endgame now. Or we will be when we are close to creating genuine AI rather than LLMs.

Profits must always go up. Ideally (for capitalists) faster than they were going up before. When you’re putting a price tag on services folks need to live, making sure you hit your projected margins is a lot easier. You can simply choose not to suffer the effects of economic downturn. Unlike the rest of us.

It could be the purpose of carbon life has been to create the thing that follows and surpasses us. We are limited in lifespan and our ability to travel vast interstellar distances to preserve our species when this solar system can no longer sustain us. And we want to make sure our AIs can kick the asses of Alpha Centauri AI.

Anyway, I don’t believe we have any purpose except in retrospect. There is just who we are, and some day there is the thing that wouldn’t happen or be created without us. And that will have been our purpose.

Price. You can buy an AM/FM radio on an integrated circuit for probably under a dollar ready to integrate. I’ve seen radios given away as swag including wired earbuds.

Ubiquitous access to portable devices that show video is close, but the devices are expensive, data is expensive, and watching video while driving is illegal.

Hey, Hailey? Suck it.

I’m not sure if I’m a normie or weirdo here. Like I enjoyed the internet when it was just a bunch of tech nerds sharing their geekery with one another. And I hate that now it’s full of morons who inundate the rest of us with their love of sportball and reality tv and fucking mundanity. But also there are weirdos here that I want nothing to do with. So this all strikes me as very perspective-dependent.

Unless you have insomnia, anorexia, and sleep apnea.