You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
When you think about it, does Marconi really play the mamba?
According to this definitely-representative map, T-Mobile users in North America are notable for calling northeastern Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, someplace in Kamchatka, southern Greenland, Wales, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, and two other indeterminate locations.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Say what you will about Firefox but at least Mozilla's not in Adobe's pocket like Chrome and IE packaging Flash Player with the browser by default
There is no true forest on the Commander Islands. The vegetation is dominated by lichens, mosses and different associations of marshy plants with low grass and dwarf trees. Very tall umbellifers are also common. There are no amphibians or reptiles.[2]
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Say what you will about Firefox but at least Mozilla's not in Adobe's pocket like Chrome and IE packaging Flash Player with the browser by default
Hasn't Google done more than anyone outside of Apple to try to kill off Flash?
Yes, but they're also smart enough to know that people won't use a browser that doesn't play every online video they want, so they bundle the Pepper version of Flash Player with Chrome
Incidentally, this is the only version of Flash Player that's still being updated on Linux!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
What does it mean when I dream about being back in middle school?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
What people say: OMG WINDOWS 10 ENABLES KEYLOGGING BY DEFAULT!!!
What that actually means: Windows 10, like every other operating system with a touchscreen keyboard, keeps track of what you type so as to "learn" what words you do and don't want autocorrected
Like this is literally something iPhones have been doing for years and nobody fucking cared but when it's Microsoft suddenly it's evil spyware??
What people say: OMG WINDOWS 10 ENABLES KEYLOGGING BY DEFAULT!!!
What that actually means: Windows 10, like every other operating system with a touchscreen keyboard, keeps track of what you type so as to "learn" what words you do and don't want autocorrected
Like this is literally something iPhones have been doing for years and nobody fucking cared but when it's Microsoft suddenly it's evil spyware??
lol i always turn off these features
i'm also always aware that any time i'm sending information over some sort of network, SOMEONE ELSE has to be able to see it, BY NECESSITY, so there is relatively little presumption of privacy other than drowning in volume
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I knocked on the door. Before I knew what was happening, the door flung open and I was staring at a shotgun barrel.
"Relax, Irene, it's just us," said Ben.
Irene dropped the shotgun to her side. "Oh hey, Ben. Come on in."
"Does she always answer the door with, uh, firearms?" I asked.
"Most of the time, yeah. You get used to it after a while."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"Hey Irene, do you think you could take a look at Grandpa's car?"
Just then the phone rang.
"Hang on, let me take this," said Irene.
"Route 26 Service Station, Irene speaking. No, I'm not a towing company. I know. Google is wrong. Yes it is. I don't even own a tow truck. No, I'm not saying I can't fix your car, I just can't get it here. Right. Thanks for calling."
Irene hung up. "My god, that's the third person this week calling asking me for towing. Stupid Google gives them my phone number, I guess."
"So take advantage of it!" I said. "Buy a tow truck and start raking in the money."
"Hmm...I'm gonna go with no." Irene lit a cigarette. "Now what were you saying before?"
"Grandpa's car...it's been sitting in our driveway for weeks and it won't start. Can you take a look at it?"
i think 'pretentious' is actually kind of an elitist term
because it assumes that the speaker is smart enough to distinguish genuine smarts/creativity from affectation, and that the person described is faking it
it took a long and complicated journey for me to realize that I really like tool even though it is incredibly pretentious oftentimes to the point of laughability
it took a long and complicated journey for me to realize that I really like tool even though it is incredibly pretentious oftentimes to the point of laughability
it's part of the appeal
also that it's not pure soulless dream theater wank but has groove, kinda. in the same way korn has groove
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February 28th is day 31+28=60-1=59.
March 31st on a non-leap year is day 31+28+31=90 +1-2+1 = 90.
April 10th is day 100.
On a leap years, April 9th is day 100, because there's one more day pushing the date forward.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
and then high school was pretty great
bam, childhood no problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Islands (a small group of islands in the far east of Russia, the westernmost part of the Aleutian Islands chain)
pictures of their treeless slopes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:О._Медный_456547.jpg , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Бухта_Буяна_1.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapovednik (a Russian term for a type of protected (usually wilderness) area)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooty (a human-raised manatee, who is 67 years old currently)
i'm also always aware that any time i'm sending information over some sort of network, SOMEONE ELSE has to be able to see it, BY NECESSITY, so there is relatively little presumption of privacy other than drowning in volume
because Tool exists
came to me rather out of nowhere
because it assumes that the speaker is smart enough to distinguish genuine smarts/creativity from affectation, and that the person described is faking it
also that it's not pure soulless dream theater wank but has groove, kinda. in the same way korn has groove