Omg you’ve just reminded me of a few years back when journalists started unironically calling articles “longreads”, like reading is somehow too much effort for adults.

And I’m downvoted versus an actual anti-vaxxer? What a world.

Why would they do any of that when they could simply use HAARP to trigger a Mandela Effect and change reality though? Seems like hard work.

They’re to give to the boatman.

It’s even better than that, because the massive inequality created by Capitalism has already got us to a state where the human population is going to collapse within the next few decades, even if climate change doesn’t do it first. Simply, most people never feel like they can afford to start a family during the years when they would have started one before. The oligarchs know this and are freaking out about birth rates now, but it’s already too late - can’t be King of the mountain if the mountain is only a hill.

Stay offline.

I nicked a LEGO winch brick from primary school and my gran made me take it back. Not a criminal mastermind.

Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.

I had to look up the difference between a decrescendo and a diminuendo, and I’m still not sure why it’s not just a diminuendo.

The tech companies seem more interested in what will bouy up their share prices than actually producing products that people want.

All files are binary.

I got stuck at a bad save point where Gonarch wouldn’t come down to the boss area and gave up forever.

America is not the World.

We simply reset the years when the Butlerian Jihad happens.

The Pacific is pretty big to have one time zone.

At a beach restaurant the other night I kept hearing a loud American voice cut across all conversation, going on and on about “AI” and how it would get into all human “workflows” (new buzzword?). His confidence and loudness was only matched by his obvious lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work.