Boomer Humor Doomergod

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

No, we sell water usage data to water companies, so they know when to put water in the pipes!

That printer is a 2000’s HP LaserJet

One could argue that the lack of a shared, verifiable experience like radio or live TV has contributed to the breakdown of social cohesion. Everyone can see what they want, whenever they want, instead of seeing what everyone else sees.

I learned more about how computers work from them than I did in all my schooling.

Most of the best QA folks I’ve worked with had teenage children.

I imagine dealing with developers is similar.

At 4:30 pm on my last day at my previous job my boss asked me to email a customer something.

I left that shit on read