My (soon to be ex-) wife buys large quantities of bottled water… One of many things about her I found irksome over the years, I went to the trouble of putting in an RO filter under the sink… and she was always so vocal about recycling… What’s better than recycling? Not buying tons of plastic in the first place…

Yeah once they’re out of the womb, fuck 'em. We only care about the unborn.

better for PDFs

Sumatra!

I have one in Arizona - trade?

I have one in Arizona - trade?

runs in a web browser.

Or its an electron app.

Something something something history repeating

All cars are computers on the road at this point, not just EVs…

But then big companies wouldn’t be able to keep milking the consumer via planned obsolescence. Won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

Yes.

You don’t sound anything like Dr. Zoidberg.

But where’s the fun in that?

They’ve already had this one, I guarantee it.

This. I didn’t know steak was good until I spent a few months living with my uncle, because growing up, if my mom made steak, it was like burnt shoe leather. Why would I ever think to order it at a restaurant?

It’s kind of Bostonian too, but then it’s pronounced “suppah”.

I grew up with frozen vegetables, my wife grew up with canned… Just one of our many incompatibilities…

it’s tied in with how US citizens feel about being “different.”

I want to be different, just like everybody else I want to be like. I want to be just like all of the different people.

-John S Hall, 1992

It’s Poe’s law- sometimes it’s a joke, sometimes they’re serious, and it’s nearly impossible to determine which at any given time.

Minor nitpick, it’s not friction, its compression. The air can’t move out of your way fast enough, so you push it ahead of you, and as more air gets smooshed together, it gets hotter.

John Gomez, John Smallberries, John Bigboote, John Yaya… November 1st 1939.

Lolololol tell that to literally every major bank, I’m sure they’ll get right on it just for you.