not really free if you keep feeding the machine

I may not agree with all his positions but he was at least a good dude and not a slimy crook

I miss Ron Paul and real conservatives

it’s not literally just an analogy how a single browser guided by private corporate interests is treated as the only standard

people actually drive with their high beams on 24/7 even on lighted roads and traffic. I was in an Uber recently and the driver did this. I already drive a relatively high riding SUV and I get blinded by those lifted trucks regularly. people are insane and only care about themselves

1. get rid of “do no evil”
2. invest in evil
3. ???
4. profit!

I played so much unreal tournament on my Pentium 4 while listening to them

isn’t that just pie with extra steps

https://youtu.be/PqvXshxAb1w

damn there are so many great references in that movie b

I finally got a house so I can hoard everything in the basement and attic away from the wife and I can finally keep my precious safe forever muhaha

exactly at one point I had a several terabyte raid 5 array that I had been collecting since napster through the LAN iTunes sharing thing through torrents but I don’t even know where those drives are, let alone a mobo/desktop that I can plug it into. at least they’re sata not pata/ide. I see videos freaking out about how weird ipod shuffles were and I’m like I loved my shuffle and click wheel and video one

but honestly as much as I lament my “losses” this new era with connected devices everywhere and an endless explosion of high quality new content is amazing. even if I chose to only listen to new music 24/7 I could never even scratch the surface of all the new stuff coming out these days in every language in every genre accessible for free to everyone with a phone. it seems silly to think about the days when Metallica sued napster over 20$ cds (although the south park episode was great) now artists are begging for people to hover 2 seconds over free tik tok clips of their songs

I miss foobar2k

I bet I could convert a hundred people to Linux.

I was also on Verizon forever since I could always smugly claim more bars than my poor friends

now that I’m kicked off my family plan and I actually have to pay for it and daycare and a mortgage I switched to mint and it works better than my wife’s Verizon

that’s something I don’t miss about apartment living

Unfortunately I can assure you that I personally read the official sequel to ET at least twice where they actually go to his planet and it did not involve any of the above. As much as I love to read books I cannot actually recommend this book to anyone else if you can find it.

exorcist shows up, trained at the Vatican, knows Greek, Hebrew, Latin (vulgate)

demon only speaks akkadian and a little conversational assyrian (like a kindergartener), understands sanskrit since his mom spoke it at home but can’t speak it himself

exorcism turns into a comedy of hand gestures and speaking very slowly and loudly with increasing levels of frustration on both sides

possessed kid whips out phone and tries to get ai to help but parents won’t let them pay for pro

everything was better when you were 13.