“The most powerful force in the Universe is compound interest.”

You don’t know how to use the three seashells?

I’ll admit, I only made it through part B. This is where you think that because you are the only one to have this thought, it must be a simulation. It doesn’t actually mean that, but that’s irrelevant anyway because you aren’t: The Anthropic Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) is a well-known part of cosmology and philosophy.

Living at only one point in time doesn’t have any greater meaning. Flip this the other way: imagine you have a minimal amount of hand-eye coordination, and you can hit a dart board, but not enough to hit a specific number. So you throw a dart and hit a 3. The chances of that are 1/20, and the chances you hit the very specific spot on that 3 is astronomically smaller. That doesn’t mean it’s special, it’s just where you hit.

Your observations and experiences aren’t meaningful because they’re planned, they’re meaningful because they’re yours, and you couldn’t have them at any other time.

10356 Star Trek: USS Enterprise D

They couldn’t even bother to work in a 1701 into the product code. Literally unforgivable.

If you fold a big New York slice, it can also be a taco.

And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them (or attempting to, anyway).

It’s weird that this has become such a controversial opinion. The internet is supposed to be open and available. “Information wants to be free.” It’s the big gatekeepers who want to keep all their precious data locked away in their own hoard behind paywalls and logins.

If some clanker is going to read my words, it’s a very small price to pay for people being able to do the same.

there isn’t technically a recession

And if the economy were shrinking, would the US government statisticians actually release reliable data that says so?

The Boys.

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is strictly catch and release.

While they’re at it, let’s include image stabilization. Shaky cam was the worst film fad of the era.

Close up of a cute puppy named PC, “please pick me.”

Switch to a little kitten named Mac, “no, pick me.”

Zoom out to the full picture, both animals are locked in amazon-branded cages, two greasy thugs watching over them, named Google and Meta: " we don’t give a fuck which, but you’re going in a cage with one of these two."

If something was previously the right tool for the job, then, despite no apparent changes in the behavior of the user, is intentionally broken by the creator of the tool and is no longer suitable - that is absolutely, 100% worth complaining about.

IMHO.

One does not simply walk on the Interstate.

He believes everything he sees in video format. He trusts his glowing screens more than his own brain.

TBF, I don’t trust his brain at all, either.

Are reed and red taken?

Badge of honor getting banned from .ml

Are…are we the mirror universe? I don’t know why this should be so shocking to me given, well, everything, but I’m going to need a moment to digest this.

Dammit, who let the Terran Empire into this universe?