Publicly traded companies are always going to turn to shit, the “Spotify model” is just appeasing shareholders with infinite growth.

The patients have an excuse.

Those damned blue-collar tweekers, they’re runnin this here town.

Solar power is not a feasible solution in all parts of the world, though, and large-scale storage is still very much an issue.

Alright, well, I don’t believe in ghost stories.

Yep. I don’t want to but there’s nothing particularly distressing about the idea. I’ve never felt “existential angst” or anything like that.

I prefer “naughties”

The comics were pretty good too.

Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”

That’s a big part of the problem but I think the worst part is that religious upbringings train people to accept irrational explanations for things. Magical thinking, unfounded claims, unquestioning adherence to authority, this is the fertile soil for all manner of nonsense from astrology to vaccine hesitancy to “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

I still think organized religion is a net drain on society but I’m generally ok with private faith. (I was raised secular though, never had my own faith to lose)

People are naturally curious but we live in a system that punishes curiosity.

It’s not a mouth based video game.

Because solid state drives can look like anything but a hard drive has the distinct arm and platter.

Fast fashion and synthetic textiles are going to bury us all.

“Nitrate free! *except for that found naturally in the shitload of powdered celery we put in there”

When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.

None of that is novel or unique to Spotify or streaming. The push for radio hit singles was killing the “listen-through album” well before the internet meant individual tracks could be easily purchased (or pirated).

Pop music is always mostly bland, that’s how it gets mainstream appeal. The good ones stand out and are remembered while the rest fade from cultural memory.

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