Boomer Humor Doomergod

Plus pollen means having to pay to clean it off.

[The CEO of BYD] is a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch

So he’s a ruthless asshole?

It’s been this way since I bought my first Performa back in 95.

I got some RAM and a dozen Zip disks for Christmas instead of

I haven’t been this shocked since I found out the original McGruff voice actor was arrested with a bunch of guns and weed plants

They used to, but it didn’t boost ad engagement so they stopped.

That America is the best and most free country in the world.

Nah, the rocks are fine. It’s putting seeds in the ground that’s the problem. That’s how the seeds get you to do their bidding.

I feel barely human most days, because we are all collectively heinous, so I must have missed that.

Agriculture was a mistake.

Ketchup on a burrito that you don’t know is called a burrito is up there with putting ketchup on a well-done steak

It’s so American to be ashamed of the world laughing at us, and not at all the heinous shit we’ve done.

A blackjack bot wouldn’t be too hard to write.

My fiancé works at a vet clinic that uses it and she says the doctors love it. The customers, however, don’t like that there’s an AI that listens to their visit so they just say it’s “software”

If I were flown to some remote base I’d have so much fun. I’d ask people about things and be super curious about it. Especially if it’s cold because I love it cold.

I’d talk to everybody and see what interesting ways they adapted to the cold. Like, do they store frozen food outside? How do they defend against polar bears?

I was briefly employed at a firm that maintained the sales commission software for a large telecom firm.

It was 1.5 million lines of VB6, though VB8 was already three years old. Nobody knew all of it, so they couldn’t possibly rewrite it to handle all the edge cases and special incentives we kept having to add.

Except maybe the lone QA person, who would frequently begin sobbing at her desk. And we could all hear it because it was an open plan office and we weren’t allowed to wear headphones.

That job was so bad I quit and began freelancing.

Functional, yes. But rarely are these sorts of things efficient. They’re covered in decades of cruft and workarounds.

Which just makes them that much harder to port to a different language. Especially by some 19 year old who goes by “Big Balls”

Solution: Create an open source foundation, cram the board with Google employees

They can extract value from just the existence of your account. If they wanted to run an ad campaign to convince people to use them they can cross reference your email and any other demographic info.

Someone - maybe not you but someone like you - will buy an Apple product because of this.

Source: I used to work for a big data company

Yeah but it got you to create an Apple account

It’s a loss leader. They make money selling the hardware and use AppleTV as a feature. That’s why the content is so good; it has to be to make it a compelling addition to their existing products.

Yeah, I’m caught between a rock and a hard place. Jellyfin makes it hard because, let’s face it, open source doesn’t do UX very well. Plex makes it hard because they’re enshittifying.

And I can’t make my own media server with blackjack and hookers because I’m too busy.