Glad that they mention, albeit a ways in, that reports of other carriers being down are because people try to call Verizon-serviced phones and freak out on Downdetector when it doesn’t go through.

Shoe on head pls

All that lossy-ass bitrate music that sounds like a telephone underwater, shame

I’m a little curious as to why they used a gift card and didn’t just pay with their own card. Seems a hassle to add the extra step.

Green? Like RADIOACTIVE? Like three mile island? Fool me twice, don’t get fooled again!

Slop it up!

The market doesn’t give a shit about you or your company. The people who bet lots of money on your company’s success or failure give a shit about whether your company is a pile of rubble in x amount of time when they can cash out.

Not especially hard, depending on your choice. But the choices tho

As a journalist who has covered internet culture for a long time, I’ve seen enough hand-drawn images of Sonic the Hedgehog showing feet and pregnant Barack Obama

Either you’re the wrong person for the job, or please say what you really saw.

“She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly”

which comes with higher speeds and more frequent lane changes

Go kiss a concrete pillar, ya duds

V….P….Nnnnnnnghhh

This myth needs to die hard. Inheriting off daddy’s blood emerald mine allows you to start businesses and buy people to make them work. This takes zero intelligence — it takes capital which was not earned. It continues to make money through the labor of shady accountants who know how to keep you from paying taxes, the labor of H1-B visa holder slaves, non-unionized assembly line workers, etc. who you crush and exploit for more capital to keep repeating the same unethical and dumb shit.

iOS and Mac users have Vinegar, if you want to spend like $2 and support an indie developer.

PhD level LLM = paying MAs $21/hr to write summaries of paragraphs for them to improve off of. Google Gemini outsourced their work like this, so I assume everyone else did too.

Let’s give them this one last win. For spite.

“That’s an interesting worldview you have, Trish! Let’s actualize your goals! I’ve located the nearest agricultural stores with fertilizer and some cheap U-Haul vans you can rent!”

I used to think of it that way; however, one day, you may be the person who is in urgent need of help. It’s better to be in the system with an established history for if that day comes.

HaXX0rz

A number of kids also don’t know “file system.” The filing cabinet is a foreign concept, as are many of the now-antiquated technologies referenced/adapted for desktop computing (the address card for your Rolodex, the floppy disk save icon). Tablets and phones are culturally moving us towards stuff being contained within its respective singular app, like all your word documents being within the word app rather than meticulously sorted through layers of folders (even though on the backend, it is). So returning to your first step: why have a browser as the first step when you could just skip having to search for anything because there’s an app? Plus, the delicious unskippable metrics.