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Soapbox handles replies differently than some other activitypub software so a bunch of replies don't look like replies on other software.

The idea that millennials in particular wouldn't understand this is mind-blowing. They got to see the fact that graphs don't keep moving in the same direction in the year 2000, and the year 2003, and the year 2008, and most recently in the year 2020. It's like, how many times do you need to see the same thing happen before you learn that graphs don't move in the same direction forever?

I have these recurring dreams where I buy cars. I've bought big trucks (like cargo trucks), I've bought sports cars, I've bought vans, and none of them are legal to drive or insured. I have recurring dreams where I'm figuring out what to do about all these vehicles everywhere. I just got out of a trip to a place I supposedly used to live in dream world where I had to promise the current occupants I'd get rid of those big cargo trucks I left parked in our yard. And it's like "I think there's a scrap yard that'll tow them for free and give me a couple hundred for the trouble..."

Freud probably didn't have anything to say about used cars in dreams, but I think they represent subconscious concerns about responsibilities I'm taking on quietly that represent substantial effort or resources, but as long as they sit in the garage they're taking up a spot in my life but they aren't actively costing me anything but if I put the work and money in then I'll have one of a number of opportunities like having a variety of paid off used cars ready to drive.

Given how Ireland and in particular sinn fein are like these days, I have to assume the New IRA fights for migrants rights.

Obviously you can't have a bunch of empty shampoo bottles around, so you'd throw out the $400 bottle of shampoo when it was empty after a week. (I know that seems awfully expensive, but don't worry -- we've gotten $15/hr minimum wage in the future!)

Do want.

I feel like in the idiocracy universe, three in one shampoo conditioner body wash would have just expanded to become the worst version of everything and the thing that everyone uses for everything.

"Shampoo. Conditioner. Body wash. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Toothpaste. Mouthwash. Toothbrush. Knife. Fork. Spoon. Antifreeze for your car. Gunpowder. Lubricant. Fire starter. Screwdriver set. Adjustable Wrench. Sex toy. Gps. MRI machine..."

I'm not sure there's a big market, but some worms want to hide their shame.

It sounds boring and effective, which is exactly the sort of thing that won't get done because it won't make anyone rich and won't get anyone clout for doing something exciting but ineffective.

Everyone should've chosen an alternative browser and an alternative search engine long ago.

It's time for the era of big tech to end.

The game's over 9000 years old. Of course it isn't being updated much anymore.

Depends. Does Jamal work for the government?

"It wasn't compulsory, it's just if you don't then we're going to make your life impossible to live."

I'd ask how they can sleep at night, but it's on a mattress filled with money from drug companies.

I, for one, am proud that we've proven we can be "just as productive" working from home!

It'll be fiiiiiiine! When is Microsoft getting its mitts into something ever proved a problem? Microsoft is famous for being nice guys who are just bros to everyone!

Everyone is working to destroy the Internet. Its Impressive.

Yes I am. I started the research for my next book a little while ago, and that's what I found. I was surprised that despite living on top of DOS 7, win 9x was a fully fledged OS and not just a shell on top of ms-dos.

Although MS-DOS remains resident, my understanding at least is that Windows 9x is still an operating system and not just a shell because doesn't use the dos calls for what it does. For example, it implements 32-bit disc algorithms, unique video algorithms, it manages the keyboard on its own, it basically does everything and it just happens to do it on top of MS-DOS as a bootloader.

I believe there was an equivalent under linux called loadlin that would let you bootstrap Linux from dos, and it even let you use some ms-dos drivers to provide functions for unsupported devices like cd-roms, just as windows can gain functions from media device drivers despite ideally running pure windows drivers instead.

Maybe this is why they think you need men to write men and women to write women and blacks to write blacks and Latinos to write Latinos. The concept that you'd ever consider a story that isn't literally just your self insert is foreign...

Putting that down in words explains too damn much! Like why there's an entire franchises with only one character archetype shared between literally every character.