AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)

You should give attribution. I’ve for sure read this before, and it’s clearly what the cartoon is referring to.

Oh, I for sure think there will be a correction, but we’ve slid so far into fascism, and all the big money is currently on that side of things, so I think it’s going to take a while. Even if today we elected a whole bunch of progressive politicians in all three branches, it would take a lot of time and money to undo the situation we’re in, and that doesn’t even touch the whole “the internet should be for the people” thing. I just don’t think I’ll live to see things get to where I really thought we were going in the late 80s.

Pre, or post Apple ][s in þe classroom?

Probably pre, but it might depend on where you were. I graduated high school in 1980.

Maybe our generation is þe most bitter. We saw what could have been, and watched it degrade

I for sure am. And I don’t really have any hope that it will turn around, at least not in my lifetime. The whole country has been enshitified, really. It’s very sad.

He apparently has a thing for huge boobs, including his own:

Unsatisfied with simply appreciating other people’s breasts, Bryon attempted to create his own. “You turn me into a girl,” he texted one woman. While posing for photos he sent to the women he hired, he seemingly shoved inflated balloons into his tight shirts, with the knots serving as makeshift (and egregiously misaligned) nipples. He also posed in turquoise leggings and pink bike shorts, both of which may well belong to Noem or another woman in his orbit, unless they were purchased for the specific purpose of cross-dressing.

I don’t think I’d even post the comic of someone I knew to be terrible.

Okay, good info. Sadly, is hard to trust anything with the Google name these days.

I’m an old guy with a CS degree. I watched the Internet and the web come into existence. I had so much excitement and hope for it. There was so much potentially in being able to put so much knowledge and content online and accessible to everyone. To have applications you could run from a common interface. I thought it would be so glorious.

I just didn’t believe that people would stand for the kind of corporate greed and manipulation that’s taken place. It’s one of the saddest things ever.

I hadn’t read the discussion but saw there was one and had wondered why anyone would want to remove an artist’s signature. That’s crazy. What a weird world view.

Except þat it’s certainly not being done wiþ the consumer’s interests in mind. It’s done for surveillance capitalism, and it’s done for control.

That was my whole point. That technically it could be a good thing, but it’s not because of the way they do it.

Not sure I could trust a TV made by Google.

I still have to have a separate device with cables going to it.

Most Atheists use it as a gift-giving holiday.

I’ve met very few people, Christians included, who actually celebrated it as the birth of Christ. They just do gift exchanges, too.

Yeah, that’s it for me, too. Time with family eating yummy food and playing games, and exchanging gifts. Zero mention of anything religious by anyone.

Also a good point.

The main way to tell it’s fake is that it’s overall way too positive. Sure, there was a jab at the media, but it wasn’t generally hateful.

I don’t agree. I don’t need my TV to keep up with the latest software like I do my computer. I’d like it to load apps for the streaming services and search YouTube videos. If it can do that today, it can do that five years from now.

Fewer devices, my TV is mounted to the wall, so fewer cords. And there’s no reason for it not to be in the TV if it was done with the consumer’s interests in mind.

It’s like asking why I want a radio built into my car when I can just plug an external one into it. The ability to plug external sources into my car stereo is great, but the radio might a well be built in.

The smart TV part is conceptually okay, but the bullshit is unspeakable. I actually like that TVs have apps for the streaming services and stuff, if they didn’t have to be evil about how they implement it. But they’re evil, so here we all are, wanting completely dumb TVs.

What the hell is wrong with you?

You realize the “most likely” is far, far different from “could possibly have been.” It does not sound at all like you’re just conjecturing with no evidence.

Still feels like an awfully broad brush when you say “most genres of fiction.” Remember that super hero franchises end up having lots of different writers with different skill levels, and they’re mostly made for kids. It’s not an inherent problem with fiction - it doesn’t have to be that way - but with super hero franchises it does often happen.