Such a Vonnegut-ass answer (complimentary)

And let us never forget this...

Bo hurr

I def hear molespeak burbling from the kitchen, though the speaker's unseen

Yessssssss

Hilarious, stellar cast. Barrymore and Olyphant were made for those roles and I wish they got to occupy them longer.

In general, pretty much all video game adjacent IP from the 1990s is an utter disaster today rights wise. It's why GOG has to hire private detectives to figure out who even is the IP holder for a lot of games. The constant cycle of studio closures and mergers created a real mess.

See: The Last of Us

Where it's very explicit that The Chosen One is burdened with sufficient generational trauma to be rendered Just Another Person Struggling to Make It Out Here

Nihilism as a state-sanctioned philosophy really makes me upset at pretty much everything

Hard agree. I mean that's more or less what the USDS and 18F were driving towards, until USDS became the shambling undead host for an alien parasite.

"Ah, a beautiful snowy morning, just like I remember from my childhood spent in a glass cabin. What better way to enjoy this than with a cup of hot apple cider. Let me just take a big sip before turning, as I do every morning, to the front page of euronews.culture --"

AI generated oatmeal cookies turning to ash in his mouth because of woke

Rs have committed so hard to the "drown it in the bathtub" bit that I think it will be a stretch even for the median voter to absorb in their heart that Dems are the obstructionists inhibiting govt function in this act

Can't? Or WON'T
seems to always be the vibe

At this point, I’m convinced even people from the distant past have heard of her. King Tut living 3,000 years ago somehow anachronistically knows who she is. Her fame has broken causality.

Going the other way seems like madness to me. I ain't staying up to date on which services are using what adtech domains; ain't nobody got time for that.

There are -- either via management of the blocklist or by the assignment of ip/mac addresses to filter groups. The latter is what I've tried and failed to do for my household members; I should in theory be able to opt out specific devices but hasn't worked for me. Likely skill issue. *shrug*

Hell is spending a week of development time optimizing page loads... only to have marketing inject a dumpster-bag of A/B testing and user tracking code in the hot path without engineering input.

Which is hard to defend when they just want shit to work and it doesn't because you went all Network Admin Privacy Warrior. "You shouldn't *want* to click that link anyway!" is not a winning message thus far; any communications professional that can help me improve on that will earn deep gratitude.