my city is literally prohibited from using public funds for any type of train because of some GOP devil magic thing – so all we have is busses, which suck because you’re still beholden to traffic jams and lights and speed limits and roads. pointless and not even a sense of whimsy or transcendence

it’s so depressing if you watch steve jobs introduce the iphone, he boasted how safari offered a rich browsing experience, beautifully rendering the full desktop version with intuitive controls to zoom and swipe around, no janky mobile sites. and look at us now. how we have fallen.

(honestly i think tim cook wrecked the company, he’s a pure bloodless businessman, thinking only about numbers and value extraction versus innovation and changing the world, which jobs, for all his faults, objectively did)

I literally watch TV through a capture card right now out of stubbornness and principle. Anything I want to record, I can just hit a button and safely keep. No DRM preventing me from taking screenshots, I can manipulate the picture to hide obnoxious graphics or ads (great for sports); the sense of control is extremely gratifying.

When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

i tried to get into streaming but i grew increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever as titles appear and disappear at the whim of suits. how could that possibly be a pleasant UX for customers?

i’d take the hassle of having discs or managing a server any day of the week over paying these goons for access to their files which they happily negotiate away for financial reasons. it’s just a disgusting paradigm. when netflix was starting streaming, i thought (i was like 15) we were emerging into a great new age, where every show you could ever want was on one beautiful service.

now they won’t even let you share accounts or screenshot the fucking show (a pig-headed anti-piracy measure which is mind-blowingly stupid given every single show on there is available for free if you know where to look ANYWAY. what are they DOING.)

fuck streaming, fuck netflix, fuck spotify. crash and burn. topple like the house of cards you are.

this is wonderful, thank you i’ve always heard people mention virtual travel and i figured it was like google street view + zoom quality; this is brilliant

companies don’t even have to worry about that shit anymore. things are so perilous that there will always be people desperate enough for anything no matter how shitty the conditions

the really stupid thing is that i feel like if i go and watch a film or read something for a few hours, that’s an isolated experience. i’m disconnected from the (vague) sense of community i feel online; i feel like i’m missing things.

but then i go back online and it’s the same garbage. even just 10 years ago it used to be good garbage, now it’s just stuff that irritates me

cutest girl at work asked me if i knew what poppers were, then supplied the explanation after i said yes. unfortunately i was/am too stupid to advance the ball further, and we both left the job shortly after due to a terrible regime change

and it’s not even a functional dictatorship; meaningful bills get held up in the wheels of power for ages and ages, but they have the will to pass this grossly authoritarian bullshit within a week. sick.

frfr, i can’t believe how many smug takes i saw about this the day it passed. left and right giddy to oppress the youth just because the dances are stupid

if i’m not burning alive by 50 i’m gonna be really disappointed by all these headlines

can’t believe people’s insanely smug reaction to this. the government is banning an app that 100+ million americans use and presumably enjoy. that is insane, full stop.

instantly feel the tension in my body release. completely relax like i’ve never relaxed before. watch all the films i still want to. probably be sad for most of it though

word searches are such a meaningless, joyless exercise too, all the words are already there. at least crosswords make it interesting

that’s all aaron bushnell right there. most noble american act of the 20th century

i’m so glad i don’t have to worry about retirement

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well yeah you simply cannot convince me that copying a sequence of 1s and 0s between two computers is tantamount to stealing