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Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!
Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!
Retroactively justifying the existence of vanity plates.
Another day, another moment of being thankful for my dedicated .mp3 player.
This won’t affect me - seeing as I have no use for Instagram - but I do worry that some actual DECENT sites will adopt this in the near future.
The full article is well worth reading. It’s good to find a lucid, logical deconstruction of why, precisely, this will be a complete disaster.
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.
c/fuckcars
Further justifying my commitment to avoiding Prime at all costs.
Sounds about right, actually.
Long live Garry Chess.
Don’t blame it on COVID. Blame it on people being massive idiots.
Good. Fuck Twitter.
I remember reading Stuart Little as a kid and being SO pissed off at the ending. It felt like a massive troll job.
Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.
And this is precisely why you don’t store your files in the cloud.
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.
Literally the plot of a dystopian movie from 20 years ago.