RoabeArt [he/him]

This is in a lot of shows and not just sitcoms, but I hate contrived argumentative dialogue that’s set up so that the protagonist always gets the last word with “witty” responses/comebacks. It’s like watching a “I’m the attractive Chad and you are the ugly NPC” meme in real time.

Before Louis Pasteur’s disproving of spontaneous generation, most people believed that bacteria and putrefactive organisms like maggots etc. spontaneously poofed into existence, like a video game character spawning. Pasteur suggested that maggots came from flies laying their eggs on rotting meat etc, and that bacteria were everywhere and will multiply quickly under the right conditions. A lot of people at the time thought these were crackpot ideas.

IP owners know an increasing number of people are giving up streaming services and going back to physical, so they’re raising the prices on physical to make up for the loss.

Pirating will always be the way.

Alternate headline: 39% of Americans support genocide.

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The small business tyrants in my city like to threaten hiring freezes or say they will stop giving raises any time it looks like even the most milquetoast lib Democrat is ahead in the polls during election season.

Instead of telling them off for this retaliatory sore loser dogshit behavior, people applaud them for sticking it to the lefties or whatever.

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“You can drink it and not get sick.”

“OK, drink some.”

“You’re a jerk!” leaves

While I wouldn’t argue it saves the planet, sequestering garbage in far off, centralized, contained locations is a little better for public health than simply tossing it in the streets like we used to do. Cholera outbreaks happened on the regular before organized waste collection became a thing.

You could probably set up an ad hoc WiFi connection directly between the phones, but they would still need some kind of app or service installed that allows the two to call or communicate to each other. Not sure what because all the ones I’ve found work off a cloud service or at least some third party server.

Every time a new apartment or condo development gets built here, there are people in the local community forums who rabble about “15 minute cities” and how they are trying to force us get rid of cars and control our travel. In spite of the fact these buildings are built with parking lots and garages that are as big as, if not bigger than the buildings themselves.

It’s like when chuds try to take credit for civil rights, or 5 day work weeks (Henry Ford willed the concept into existence, not years of direct action by the labor movement).

Lenin talked about how the ruling class will actively oppose a revolutionary figure, but once society at large accepts them, the ruling class will switch face and pretend like it always supported said figure.

I could be dead wrong on this (and I’m too lazy to google) but I’ve read that the term “ham radio” comes from the fact that early versions of amateur radio sets were cobbled together from other radio parts, in a hamfisted way.

“Punishable by fine” is just another way of saying “it’s legal if you can afford it.”

The other day I was trying to explain this “made with 100% whatever” concept to a coworker.

A HFCS fruit drink might say “made with 100% real juice”, but that real juice could be like 2% of the total recipe when the rest is HFCS, dyes and flavorings. It’s one of those technically true things and it’s enough to skirt FDA labeling requirements, and a lot of people are dumb enough to be taken in by it and believe they’re drinking a real product.

I got permabanned from pre-Elon Twitter for saying Donald Trump Junior should live up to JFK Junior’s legacy and get in a small plane.

Yet people still tell me that Twitter was a leftist cesspool before Elon bought it.

Are we talking first computer in your household, or first computer you ever bought yourself?

Our first family PC was a hand me down from my uncle that we got when I was 12 or 13. 486DX2 66MHz processor, a couple MBs of RAM, 700-ish megabyte hard drive, Windows 3.1 and DOS. AOL install disks didn’t work on it because they needed at least Windows 95, and I was still clueless on how to set up a modem connection in 3.1. So it was entirely for games installed via disc only. We ended up getting a Windows 98 machine a year or two down the line.

First PC I bought for myself was a custom built machine from a computer shop that has long since gone out of business. I think I paid around $200 for it, so it was a fairly basic PC for 2004. Athlon 1.5 GHz CPU (with a loud as fuck cooler fan), 512 MB RAM, a video card that I forgot the make and model of, Windows XP. Lasted me about 3 years until I built one myself.

That being said I don’t have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

Pages with dozens of embedded JPEG files that are larger than your monitor’s resolution and are compressed at highest quality. Easily a quarter to half of a megabyte each and take several minutes to load on dialup, then the webserver times out the connection because you’re taking too long to download all these giant files at once.

I don’t miss those days. Not to say things are better now, but they necessarily weren’t back then either.

Oh, and RealPlayer. Fuck RealPlayer.

“Owning a car = freedom”

Unfortunately in a country where the infrastructure is so hostile to public transit or even pedestrian/biking amenities that it’s nearly impossible to live, work or function without a car unless you’re lucky enough to live in a dense urban community, I can see how people might believe this.

I always use seconds as an allegory to dollars when I explain to people the difference between thousand, million and billion (I did the number crunching in my head and rushed it, so if I made any errors lemme know).

1000 seconds = 17 minutes

100,000 seconds = 27 hours

1 million seconds = 11 days

1 billion seconds = 31.70 years

148 billion seconds (Bezos’ net worth) = 4693 years