Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.

It got bad several years ago, which is when I permanently jumped ship to DDG. It’s nowhere near as good as Google used to be, but on the other hand, it’s also nowhere near as bad as Google is now.

Mitt Romney says “Hi.”

Guidance counselors. One of them tried to convince my parents that I was on drugs…in 4th grade. Turned out that I had an undiagnosed mental disorder.

And on the third try, you think you accidentally failed to hit the last key, and so you have to start all over again.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

This is why I never bought a domain. Can’t give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

I was already going to crawl over cut glass to vote for her/against Drumph. Walz doesn’t change anything for me, but if Internet comments are to be believed, picking him does make me slightly more optimistic about our chances come November.

Retroactively justifying the existence of vanity plates.

I once had a class where, day one, the professor said something like, “If you don’t want to buy the book, that’s fine with me. I can’t tell you where to find a copy, but maybe one of your classmates can.” Someone raised their hand and started rattling off a few useful websites.

Sounds about right, actually.

I’ll keep using Windows as long as programs like Open Shell and OSSU are able to deal with the bullshit. But if there comes a day when they no longer work…well, Linux awaits.

Hates People

I remember reading Stuart Little as a kid and being SO pissed off at the ending. It felt like a massive troll job.

And when I’m in a mixed group of strangers and that 1 person I’m comfortable with, it’s a mixed bag as to which me shows up.

Bonus points: The service has the entire run of a show, but then they remove the whole series when you’re only 3 episodes away from the end.

The real lesson here is that clear, unambiguous communication is key.

I used to live near this Thai place that closed and reopened “under new management” every few months or so. They kept the name and even had the same menus, except sometimes they’d cross out items in Sharpie and write new items in the margin.

It was the best restaurant in town, and I admired their persistence.

Thank goodness for Firefox. Google is really doing their best to make the Internet unusable.