In fact, “computers” were women whose job was to do calculations in the era before electronic computers.

A heads up that, in 2026, a 70 year old grandmother could just as well have had a 30-40-50 year career in computing. Don’t use grandmothers as the go to trope for tech illiterate users :)

The idea that a language ends up a lingua franca because of its qualities is simply ridiculous. It’s not linguistics, it’s empire. It’s always empire.

Sudo vibe coding in Bletchley Park.

OO Impress

Fun fact: during the stone age, most things were made out of wood, bone and leather.

WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.

You seem to assume that mergers and acquisitions are not an essential part of a market economy. Left to their own devices, capitalists will always end up trying to form monopolies. You need a strong regulatory state to keep them in check. But then because they are inexorably pulled towards maximizing profitability, they will try to capture the state and deregulate. So, unless you go to a very aggressively anticapitalist set of policies a market economy will never be “functioning” for long.

Through the gates of hell

This is Steve Hughes level comedy: https://youtu.be/h5VliEjyohM

Metaphorical man cards are for insecure idiots who need reassurance.

If you’re a 40 year old grown ass adult you can do whatever the fuck you like. Man cards are for insecure idiots who need reassurance.

The United States of America after the Cold War.

Wow, thank you!

I’m not even Catholic and I want to send this guy to the Inquisition for heresy

Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

I like you ask in hypotheticals.

Resist now.

All 30 if us who play it agree.

Right? Wrong?

I asked you a question, I didn’t make an argument or assert a position.

This is surreal. It’s like:

You: why does everyone say good afternoon when it’s only 12:30?!

Me: what time zone are you in buddy?

You: you didn’t answer my question!

Me: I mean, China for example is all on the same timezone regardless of how west or east you are.

You: FINE. YOU’RE RIGHT. I’M WRONG. HAPPY?

Me: wtf man, I just asked you your fucking timezone.

It does. The centre-left in Montreal municipal politics corresponds to the left wing of the left in Canadian federal politics. So if I write a long diatribe lamenting how the centre left in Montreal is not progressive enough, and send it over to someone in Alberta, they would have no idea what I’m talking about.