Man it’s sad how much distrust they’ve built up now

It’s a relief valve though. As someone who has suffered from unavailable care, black market drugs probably saved my life. I’m not terribly against adults being able to make such decisions on their own judgment.

That is the front door

I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.

Oh snap

The same story of publicly traded companies again and again.

Your steady growth isn’t good enough.

Your growth has to grow - and if it’s not growing fast enough then you’re not doing your duty to the shareholders.

Add in the fact that we’ve let businesses get so large they empty all the air from the room and we’ve managed to enshittify our entire society.

They really could work on their branding a bit

What is this weird AI generated unbuttered noodle of an article?

I had to explain to a friend recently why

“I’m at Steve’s house”

Was fine but

“I’m in Steve’s house”

Was weird. Like, get out of there before you get arrested.

Haha oh man it’s weird to see this mentioned so many years later.

I helped organize that protest. Thanks for coming down with us!

Sometimes I ask it for music recommendations.

But mostly I tend to just use it like a fancy thesaurus when I’m low on mental energy.

Sometimes I remind myself silently “just listen”

Always wished there was a community somewhere for sharing actually decent mobile games.

I’m now naked in bed, and this would probably get my boyfriend excited.

The disjointed random video dumping you to a new mission every time you log in as a new player is super weird. Really makes it hard to figure out what you were doing.

As a person who cares about the gaming ecosystem, I think it would be really healthy for Microsoft to not have full market dominance.

They’re busy making studio acquisitions which are gradually centralizing the market, which could become very problematic if they start taking anticompetitive approaches to distribution.

More people on Linux means more pressure for software availability on Linux, and if people can just move over relatively easily that prevents Microsoft from going full corpo-digital-prison-hellscape.

I noticed when I fly a lot of airlines include models of the plane you’re on in the in-flight purchase pamphlet. They’re pretty simple, probably fine for a kid - on the off chance you’re flying somewhere for the holidays.

All the activity in every zone I visit really does just feel so great. There’s no better sign a game is alive and healthy. It was totally that which hooked me.

I still play EVE online, having a lot of fun in faction warfare these days.

A video came out on the history of the game recently, just a cool 6 hour deep dive. https://youtu.be/BCSeISYcoyI?si=1sKdXt8oPRUTbzs1

I’ve also gotten into Guild Wars 2 recently and I’m a little addicted. The game just feels great: nice community, events are engaging, so much stuff to do but at the same time not demanding like games can be sometimes.