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A downhill slide from the good Captain Andrew Bogomil.

Even Kinsey knew when to quit; it just took a Supreme Commander to do it.

Scotty: “You’re not supposed to give the secrets away, laddie!”

Bet this works as well as the PPP Covid payments did. No oversight, lots of big businesses that weren’t really eligible draining the funds before real small businesses got anything, and no accountability.

I read the last line that wrapped as “no internet connected” and thought, that’s hard core, man.

Not that unusual. Hate to blow their cover, but look closer at all the nerdy women…

Getting a computer, back when that was not a thing (early 80s). Changed so many things that wouldn’t have happened without it.

Seems there’s a mandate of citizens not happy with him in the position. I call a vote of no confidenc… oh, right, we don’t do that here. Or rather, we give any power of removal to the other representatives, with the assumption that the corruption isn’t spread that deep.

First thought - wait, he’s still making Far Side comics?

Then remembering this has always been a thing.

Gen-X quietly in the corner, remembering how they watched TV a lot too, but also mostly got kicked out of the house to play outside and “don’t come back in until dark”.

Edit to emphasize this wasn’t necessarily a choice we made for ourselves. Boomers (and the Silent Gen before them) wanted their peace from the kids, so we were on our own. Good and bad points to that kind of character building.

Pro tip - use the whole keyboard.

The internet has always been a cesspool of uselessness with a few gold nuggets to find. Some of the best information out there was in those old posts, from Usenet to Reddit, buried in shit.

This is, unfortunately, part of nostalgia itself. There’s a rare gem that is as good as you remember, but for the most part, your brain lies to you.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t revisit things, just prepare your expectations.

Narrator: The fire detector in fact did not work.

There’s more than one kind of backup in life, check them all.

I’ve been in some craft shops before that sold all sorts of crystals and other knick-knacks, and while I would never believe they have some magical power, there were some pretty cool things. The prices though… not that they were overpriced really, just that I couldn’t afford them. :D

I got a meteorite for last Christmas that I keep on my desk. Technically it’s just a little lump of pitted metal, one of hundreds of thousands sold. But it’s neat to look at and think about sometimes.

They watch out after their own kind.

But then it’s swung even harder the other way now.

I always try to imagine: if my younger self had grown up in today’s world, how would that have felt compared to then? And it’s not a great vision. Millennials and younger, you guys got fucked over, and I think most of you know it. I get your anger and despair.

From a Gen-X - Sorry. I did try to do something about it (I feel I did anyway), but I know I didn’t do enough. I thought it would get better.

Two easy ones:

No 9-11. There would have eventually been an attempt somehow, hell, maybe it would have been worse, like a dirty bomb. But the ball wouldn’t have been dropped on staying alert. Climate activism. Still think it was far too late even by 2000 to prevent the worst that’s coming (which tells you were I think we are now), but at least Gore knew the science and would have tried to change something.

Still would have had our problems, but it’s such a different path, it’s hard to say what would have still happened.

Not fully. But I’m not saying gravitational theory doesn’t qualify as a theory, I’m just saying we understand evolution very well.

I’ll call. We understand much of how evolution works. Do we really understand how gravity actually works at the core level? There are a few theories, but that’s just it; we’re not sure, and have different models to try and explain what’s going on. Not one.

So what about the renaming of Office to Co-pilot? Microsoft is so confused. Or truly trying to make 2026 the year of Linux.