He was right, wasn’t he? Feels good to say it in a place where I won’t get banned for expressing it. Luigi was right.

You’re absolutely right— and here’s the thing— it happened! Bots get it done 😎

(/s I don’t know what other tells bots have)

ditto.

I have the Projectivity launcher on my Bravia; greatest thing I’ve ever done to my TV. But it’s still a Google TV first, and I doubt they’ll allow launchers for much longer. I feel like my time is limited with the setup I enjoy; and seeing ads get more invasive elsewhere paired with clamping down on VPNs, it just makes me think it’s just gonna get worse

Hm? Did you say something? Sorry, I was distracted.

It’s like they created a very good phone tree and are trying to shove it into everything that never had or needed a phone tree in the first place.

Oh I’m positive. The flipside is I watch a lot of reality TV with them as they enjoy our riffing it together; I do not care one iota for most reality TV, including what they make me watch, but I do it for them, and there’s always time later to turn it back to my tastes. It’s a balancing act.

But also I still keep track of external factors if it’s not enough. I returned two shopping carts to the corral and held the door open at Red Robin for some sort of school visit and by my calculations those were enough points to get me a Heat rewatch with them.

My spouse does this too. I’m down to MST3K roast a show or movie if it’s bad or I’ve seen it before, but we have an agreement if I care and want to be immersed I’ll let them know…

…and then if it turns out the movie’s bad I’m down to roast it.

Sometimes I’m enjoying a movie and I can tell they want to talk, and it drives them insane, but they respect the agreement.

Hello my name is Doug, I’m 40+ years old and I’m a fucking idiot.

I mean I guess part of me knew, I have been to Subway and watched them slice the fucking bread. But when I see baguettes at the store I think “hm, just like Olive Garden, I can make tiny baguette slices!” I don’t think “yeah time to make some killer sandwiches.”

…I’m going to blame my autism for this one. It probably isn’t true, but I’m gonna blame it anyway.

I remember when the first Surface released and Gabe from Penny Arcade was like “wtf this is better than iPad for drawing. why aren’t they advertising this aspect of it?”

I don’t know if that’s still true, but I always tucked it in the back of my mind when I was looking for drawing tablets.

Hoarding + fear of death + erroneously thinking wealth will increase likelihood of immortality or leaving behind a legacy someone may reincarnate them + thinking everyone is out to get them (which— sure, we are, but only because they’re hoarding wealth) + dehumanizing everyone else = billionaires

I would like to think if the future is ever capable of bringing someone back from the dead, they’ll know not to resurrect a cancer of a person.

afaic it’s the “for profit” that tanks these places and nothing else. it’s why I went more into mastodon than Bluesky.

Instrumental trip-hop.

Higher tea intake showed similar results, while decaffeinated coffee did not — suggesting that caffeine may be the active factor producing these neuroprotective results, though further research is needed to validate the responsible factors and mechanisms.

I have caffeine sensitivity and only drink decaf so uhhhh fuck me I guess 😔

The guy behind me was getting impatient. I was worried things might get hairy.