Boomer Humor Doomergod

Love the shoutout to Margaret Hamilton

If Republicans could feel shame* I’m sure they’d be very upset.

* about anything other than sex

Yeah but at least they’d have style. Their popularity would at least make sense. It would feel a little less horrifyingly alienating.

Plus pollen means having to pay to clean it off.

[The CEO of BYD] is a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch

So he’s a ruthless asshole?

It’s been this way since I bought my first Performa back in 95.

I got some RAM and a dozen Zip disks for Christmas instead of

I haven’t been this shocked since I found out the original McGruff voice actor was arrested with a bunch of guns and weed plants

They used to, but it didn’t boost ad engagement so they stopped.

Considering Leonard Maltin gave Laserblast the same 2.5 stars as Temple of Doom I guess B is in the eye of the beholder

Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man are B movies?

One of the things I like about Linux is the feeling of likely being eaten by a grue

1. Programmers invent AI
2. Executives use AI to replace programmers
3. Executives rehire programmers for thousands of dollars an hour to fix AI mistakes.

Nah, the rocks are fine. It’s putting seeds in the ground that’s the problem. That’s how the seeds get you to do their bidding.

I feel barely human most days, because we are all collectively heinous, so I must have missed that.

Agriculture was a mistake.

Ketchup on a burrito that you don’t know is called a burrito is up there with putting ketchup on a well-done steak

It’s so American to be ashamed of the world laughing at us, and not at all the heinous shit we’ve done.

I played Drug Wars on my TI-89 almost 25 years ago which sounds like the same game but with better graphics.

I agree with a lot of what you said, and maybe “fractured” wasn’t the right word to use. It’s more like “shattered”

Take advertising, for example. Back in the days of broadcast media they had to make broadly appealing ads. Ads people would talk about around the water cooler.

Now we can target ads very specifically, so I may never see an ad that you see.

People are still talking about inane things because that’s how we do, but there’s more niches and communities than before, and they’re more siloed.

I especially agree with this part:

I think we are seeing the ends of the safeties this form of democracy has to provide

The printing press brought down hereditary monarchies. The Internet may bring down nationalist liberal democracy.

Let’s hope what replaces it is as much of an improvement.

This is ancillary but perhaps contributing to it due to a lack of shared context. (For example, if someone asks me about a funny commercial I won’t have seen it and can’t relate.)

I’m thinking more like the zeitgeist has fractured.

If you’re lucky it might be cut with something cheaper like pure cocaine