And all his ideas went over exactly as planned.

Guys - maybe widespread access to effortless line-of-sight killing tools also causes problems.

“My dearest Delilah, how I long to sit with you and our beautiful daughter…”

Okay sure but this guy jumped out of a bush with a flaming axe and said he’d eat our spleens. And Vilrod here identified the axe as +1 against spleens.

Probably not Ankh-Morpork, because Vetenari is nothing if not competent.

Situation: there are 14 competing editors.

That is not what Firefox has done.

Linking to another instance is kind of silly.

… by submitting queries to another website that only does what’s ruining search engines.

Infantalizing people for their own good --> infantalizing people as an insult.

More behavior you need to cut the fuck out.

Nobody’s stopping you.

You should stop.

This is not a contradiction.

I would still be using 7 if ransomware wasn’t a thing.

I went back to Mint instead.

It’s bullshit and you should stop.

It’s a pattern of destroying information over puritanical nonsense. Treat people like adults.

Why, in the name of god, does Lemmy’s obsession with censorship include the word “jerk?”

You pay how much to be told no?

Windows 9x was low-bullshit.

NT and 2000 were corporate enough to be no-nonsense. They belonged to the administrator, but the administrator can be you.

ME was a mistake.

XP was not yet online enough to be properly skeezy.

But from Vista onward, yeah, it’s been an escalating shit-show that’s difficult to miss.

Addressing exactly one of those things: GBA Jam 2024 runs for another two months.

Advertising shits in your brain.

Exploiting trust is worse. That parasocial z-list celebrity isn’t recommending something - they were paid to read corporate propaganda.

The most painful version of this is Lindsey Ellis’s video on “Manufacturing Authenticity.” It ends with a deep sigh and an ad read. The brand knew she was doing a video about how brands pay the popular kids to shill their whatever, and they did not care, because all that matters is getting a known face to say the words.

And she’s the kind of woman Spike Spiegel loves: she’ll fucking kill you.

Guru Meditation red.

Alternately: yellow-and-black ASCII approximating Evangelion’s ALART.

When the standard for “robust” is Java–