Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.

They could pay people to check, but it’s more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.

Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.

Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.

Sometimes I make a conscious effort to think about what I would say to someone else in my situation. It’s helpful.

It would take an incomprehensible set of changes for me to consider going back to Microsoft. They can fuck off.

It wasn’t working at first but now it is!

People are lazy and don’t think very much. Spotify is right there.

Also enshittification: it was better to draw people in, and then they made it shittier and people stay

I buy music (mostly from Bandcamp). Now I have a big library and no subscription fee.

In-group to protect, out-group to bind. That’s all.

Fuck is with these conservative losers jumping on the kings dick like pathetic fangirls?

The only thing driving conservatives is “in-group good, out-group bad”. There is no internal consistency beyond that. They’re the worst sort of people.

Sanction can mean a punishment or an authorization.

Came up in a DND game where a devil’s contract said the players crossing the region would be sanctioned, or something like that. Players thought it meant they had permission, fine print said they would be punished.

Being ruled by the UK would probably be an improvement

Modern social networks are pretty trash, but I don’t have an iPhone so this is a non starter.

Even so, I’d rather just… text my friends.

Read.

Hang out with partner or friend. That usually means reading, watching something, playing a game. Sometimes just lounging near each other.

Play video games.

…what? Poor joke or failure at math?

Windows is pretty bad and their management are soulless husks.

They could rip out all the AI garbage and I wouldn’t trust that they learned anything. Fuck 'em.

Linux is free and meet all my needs.

You’d think more libertarian types would be more in favor of walkable cities, biking, and such.

Break up Google, Facebook, and the other big platforms that let disinformation run rampant.

Hold decision makers at those organizations personally accountable.

Half your age plus 7 is an okay rule for finding the floor. Don’t aim for the floor. Plus 10 is less eyebrow raising.

People make money on it. People don’t care enough to organize around shopping it.