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I keep thinking of ditching Kbin for Lemmy, because Kbin is down more often than I’d like, and I presume Lemmy is healthier. However, I’ve gotten quite used to this place, and am not eager to start anew elsewhere.

I’ve tried frolicking. All those hairs get stuck in my teeth, though.

The Reuben is up there. A delightful combination of creamy (Swiss), hearty (Rye), salty (corned beef), sweet (Thousand Island dressing), and tart (sauerkraut). Those are like, the Power Rangers of sandwich ingredients. When they combine, the end result is unstoppable.

Is this like the Linux nerds’ version of the Crips and the Bloods?

Ty Burrell played Mr. Peabody in the Dreamworks film based on the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon shorts, where a super intelligent dog had mastered time travel. A year prior, Burrell was regularly being outsmarted by an orange in ads for Tropicana juice drinks.

I’m just sayin’, if you were going to hire someone to be a pompous canine smarty-pants, well… David Hyde Pierce is RIGHT THERE.

Maybe just stick with the lettuce, Mr. Galapagos Tortoise.

This seems to happen with progressive rock at alarming levels. They just reach a point where they take their pretentious bullshit a little too far, and the fans grow weary of it. You saw that with Jethro Tull, which pushed its luck with A Passion Play after scoring a critical success with Thick as a Brick. Yes took it too far with Topographic Oceans. I’m sure ELP has an album where they pushed the envelope a little too far and pushed away the audience in the process. Unfortunately, that had a pendulum effect, with ELP releasing the wimpy Love Beach in an attempt to reel back in those lapsed fans.

Just Amazon Prime and Paramount Putz. I’d get rid of the former, but I’ve heard it’s tough to do. Also, I don’t subscribe to Amazon Prime for television specifically; that sub is for free shipping specifically. The streaming is just gravy… although with the upcoming advertising attached to shows, it’s more like diaper gravy.

Holy Windows XP backgrounds, Batman!

They took a picture of that area twenty years later and it looks NOTHING like it did when Win XP was released.

Take your time, Mark III Zucker-borg. I’m in no rush for you to screw up yet another web site with your ads and your propaganda.

Patreon, too.

Autism is bolted into my personality; it’s part of who I am as a person. I take great offense at the notion that I should be cured of being me.

They’re not so much “autism speaks” as “we speak FOR the autistic because the autistic can’t be trusted to speak for themselves.” A more honest name would be “International Karens Inconvenienced by Autistic Children.”

Anything poisoned by the hand of Elon Musk. I loved Twitter ten years ago… now it’s a toy for a vain, self-consumed fool, a stupid child allowed to play with power tools. I deleted my accounts months ago and studiously avoid visiting the site, or any links leading to that site. It fills my mouth with bile just thinking about what it’s become.

This one was heartbreaking. I was a big Google fan from the moment I discovered them in 2002. They’ve done a fantastic job of pissing away all that goodwill in recent years.

Yeah, Sony isn’t a favorite of mine either. They’ve always had this Trumpian sense of arrogance and narcissism in the video game industry that’s never failed to annoy me. It was kind of fun to watch them flail a bit with the PS3, which lost them a lot of ground against the Xbox 360 due to its mammoth price. Felt like the early 90s console wars all over again.

I mean, they’re right. The internet really IS worse than ever, and I don’t think the Dork Web (federated social media) does enough to fill the gap of Twitter at its peak ten years ago.

If you really want to play “get off my lawn,” I’d suggest that the internet is also not as good as it was in the 1990s, where just being on suggested a level of competency with technology that no longer seems to apply. Yes, the download speeds were terrible and there was no YouTube, but 1990s internet was a literary pursuit. Now, it’s largely visual, and tailor-made for short attention spans. Instead of mind-enriching, it’s mind-draining, like television.

Nice to know Spez is staying hydrated.

Wait, didn’t they all die? Or am I thinking ammonites?

They’re keeping a stiff upper trunk.