bampop

15 years ago was when I stopped using facebook. It had the potential to be a great way to organize and maintain social connections, but instead it was a toxic environment promoting the most annoying shit, particularly when posted by frequent users trying to broadcast their lives to the world. Simultaneously it did a great job of hiding anything I’d actually be interested to know. Fuck knows how bad it has become in the meantime. It was striking how much it seemed to bring out the worst in people, and equally remarkable how so many people just wanted to wallow in that.

Jokes on you when you're mid tasting and you notice the whoopee cushion on a different chair

Hold the door!

There’s no contradiction here. The US military exists to preserve and extend capitalism. Taking care of veterans would be socialist. Being abandoned by the state is the best way to say thank you; it shows that everything they fought for is successful and working better than ever!

Past self: “oh look an old person having a stroke”

I’m calling bullshit. Why would anyone sell that? It’s like selling a piece of your soul

That way you can do lengthy email exchanges to discuss what time both parties are available for a phone call

When I was a little kid I went to my grandparents house where they were having some party with a buffet. I ate what I thought was a grape, but in fact it was something I’d never tasted before: an olive. It took me about 30 years to start liking olives, for a very long time they just tasted like rotten grapes.

Not until you've filled the elevator with spiders

What seems really off to me is that Firefox has one standout feature that people really love: extensions. You can customize your browser however you want. So it makes sense that if they wanted to integrate AI into their design that it should be done via extensions. They could produce a mozilla-approved pack of extensions which add whatever AI features they want to offer. That way any AI functionality is opt-in, and transparent in the sense that you have a specific feature set for each extension so you kind-of know what you're buying into, rather than having a built-in set of opt-out features that are ill-defined and constantly changing. Such a radical and unnecessary change of their whole design philosophy seems very suspect to me.

Oh come on now, they don’t really have to do that until stalactites start forming

The tooth fairy can go where it wants, and can see in the dark. Why would it need to dig them up?

I thought you were kidding but I just had to know lol. Like to make a case for Papyrus being racist you’d firstly have to say who it’s being racist towards, and it’s just a bit… vague… for that.

OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people… but racist? How tf is a font racist?

He’s going to find out who’s naughty and nice

Nah, you’re thinking of a hundred-plus-million dollar company. Being understaffed and disastrously managed is about right for a million dollar company.