Look, you get born, you keep your head down, and then you die. If you’re lucky.
#fedi22
Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.
Not in the slightest. More likely their annual bonus depends on boosting revenue right now. So they’re incentivised to generate short term increases in revenue but not for longer term. Plus, also, if/when Youtube goes tits up they’ll just get a different CEOing job (with “increased revenue by 25% in 2024 on their resume”) rinse and repeat.
Kind of my point. We gained ecommerce, streaming services, platforms such as this one, online gaming, mapping services, and others - at the cost of the freedoms for which people are nostalgic. And now we have ads, personalization, tracking, and inevitable enshitification.
Back in the days of the wild frontier things were chaotic, anarchic, violent, and unconstrained.
Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road
And now we’re all fenced in, regulated, allowed to wander only in approved lanes… oh, wait, sorry, we’re talking about the internet, not real life!
Me. Sigh.
I heard something like this the other day. Is it the same thumb as the palm? 'Cos when I can’t press my right hand thumb to the palm of my right hand.
I love water so much I always add a splash to my whisky!
Goldman Sachs is overhyped and unreliable.
Tomb Raider on OG PlayStation.
I remember walking around after pretty much a solid day of playing and just swing buildings in terms of which ones Lara / I could climb.
You’d say what with the what now?
Musk also told staff that he would ask for the resignation of any executive “who retains more than three people who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test.”
Pssst. Elon. You’re not any of those three things.
Pfffft. The AI couldn’t even fly its plane the right way up.
I miss Windows 3.11.
It genuinely is hard to master more obscure English pronunciation because so much of it is made up of loan words from very different languages, but this will help as a general principle to follow.
There is no better way to come off as a pretentious asshat in my mind than to stubbornly stomp a foot and declare “my way of pronouncing this word is correct and everyone else is wrong.”
Exactly. Which is why correct pronunciation is a good thing - otherwise you’re the pretentious asshat who’s stomping the foot.
“The intent is to provide drivers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heated seat configurations.”
You might also want to add Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai to your list too - they’re the Kurasawa films that A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven are western (in both senses) remakes of.
For A Few Dollars More is so-so (but I’d still watch it again), but The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is epic.
And if you enjoy them, then take a crack at High Plains Drifter or Pale Rider which are both excellent though share an underlying theme. The Outlaw Josey Wales is also well worth a watch, as is the magnificent (and best picture Oscar winner) Unforgiven starring and directed by an older, wiser, and grittier Clint Eastwood.
When Netflix had (seemingly) everything I was totally cool and the gang with paying for that service.
Now I have:
and I still can’t find the content I want to watch. I had an urge to watch The Good, The Bad And The Ugly the other day. Could I find it on any services I pay a combined £50+ a month for? Could I fuck. Why would they be surprised they’re pushing people to ‘alternative’ sources? Sure, I can rent or buy Barbie and Oppenheimer if I want, but I don’t want. What I want is access to the tens of thousands of old, excellent, films that have been made.
It was never about money
“My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted…”
Utterly hilarious.
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