I am in a similar boat. I’ve usually bought consoles a few years in when prices were lower. But since they’re higher, I’m just sticking with PS4 and playing through that backlog

They weren’t really first though? Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry were around but couldn’t keep up

Big market, but also huge barrier to entry to get a phone ecosystem off the ground. MS, Amazon, Facebook, Mozilla and many others have tried and failed. Apple and Google have huge moats

Lmao beer goggles for the web, activating at random

That is indeed sometimes the case. Sometimes an object has another purpose. But when I’m watching a cheesy crime movie, if the cinematographer makes a point of showing a close up shot of a weapon, it’s a safe bet that the object is somehow going to figure in the plot. I notice with higher quality mysteries like Knives Out there are a lot of red herrings, not in the typical sense of intentionally misleading us, but trying to show how any crime solving process has dead ends on the pathway to the answer.

See also: Infectious disease on cruise ships

It kind of reminds me of the comet from Outer Wilds, which was kinda spooky, in terms of having to land on this tiny object traveling very fast through space and navigate it

For now, you can clear cookies and the pop up goes away. I suspect they will eventually retire the website, as is mostly the case for tiktok, which is pretty much impossible to use on the web. Corporations in general are trying to destroy the web in favor of apps, and consumers have been trained to expect everything to be an app, so there’s a risk that someday browsers as we know them will be a niche web technology.

I don’t want to let her off the hook for her repugnant views, but I do think we have a real issue with globally rising mental illness, and it seems like there is pipeline for people with certain types of mental illness finding Trump very appealing.

The interesting thing is that the media trained us to admire these people, and listen with bated breath to their advice. When in fact they are the last people we should ask for any kind of moral guidance. Their greed has made literally every major societal issue worse. Fortunately, I think that illusion is dissolving, and more and more it’s a majority opinion that the rich are too rich and it needs to stop. Lots of disagreement on how to stop it, unfortunately

Interestingly, The Future is Wild, a speculative evolution show I loved as a kid, features arboreal squid as a future form of intelligent life

THEY👏LOOKED👏LIKE👏THAT👏FIRST

Some of them were born this way I suppose lol. They are a self-selected group of greedy people. There has never been an easier group to vilify, because they are literally villains, hoarding resources that others desperately need

The first true “headline” of landlords committing arson would likely be the arrest of 8 landlords, detailed in the New York Times in 1975.[31] Among these were the highly-publicized case of Imre Oberlander and Yishai Webber, two Brooklyn-based landlords who were caught driving to one of their buildings whilst wearing blackface, explosives in tow.[32] Critically, none of these landlords were black or Latino. The landlords profited greatly off their insurance policies; Oberlander, for example, had collected $125,000 (over $750,000 in 2026) in payouts from twenty-one separate fires between 1970 and 1975.

It was a slow-motion white collar riot

Wow, fascinating. Are the flowers quite fragile?

We must work to add all 3000

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If he had been just a fuckup, it would be manslaughter. But he knew the lead was harmful and lied to help it become a common additive. That’s what makes him a mass murderer.

Veritasium video about him: https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA

Beat me to it

Yes, Animal Farm imo is a better allegory about how people inherently want a good, peaceful life for everyone around them until politics gets into the equation, which brings greed and exploitation