What’s the inverse Cramer strategy say right now? We’ll finally answer the question, what happens when an unimprovable slob meets an inscrutable fart.

A return to chattel slavery? An aim of the resurgent confederacy? What a twist

The surprising thing is that they’re not fun at parties because they attempt an epic keg stand and you end up calling an ambulance and everyone goes home early

If it’s illegal as fuck I’m going to be so relieved. It’s so distractingly horrible that I can’t even think clearly

Difficult to know what even to say about this. It might be legal? But it is a deep violation of the social contract.

In my case, it’s more to do with that execrable tool Farage.

After Pebble got bought up and went under, I kept mine a good while. It eventually died or I lost the charger, I forget. I’ve had ‘modern’ smart watches since then, and they all just stressed me out and were too fiddly. I need buttons.

I’m not really interested in tracking calories burned or heart rate changes myself, so I preordered a cheap one in black like I used to have. Annoying that I’ll probably have to pay an extra import duty on it, but I miss wearing a watch and this one is worth supporting - for the thing itself, but also because it’s a meaningful story to me.

Another day in Putin’s second term

Lots of high quality FOSS projects exist. Interrogate that feeling of surprise!

It might be one of those “you had to have been there” moments. It’s 2014, Obama was reelected, Uptown Funk was on the radio (there used to be this thing called FM radio), and there you are - a happy young thing reading texts on your watch in broad daylight, right the middle of a conversation. You felt like a cucumber straight from the freezer.

I know all that sounds slightly laughable now, but there is an undeniable yearning for that zeitgeist compared to where we ended up.

I remember having this optimism around tech in my late twenties.

Those darn masses and their checks notes FCC lobbyists…

Accidental discharge by a hungover secret servicemen is actually a reasonably plausible scenario from what I’ve read, and yes, you’re spot-on.

The current secret service also investigates financial crimes, which is politically unwise under an avowed financial crook president.

I feel like a lot of it is down to bad monetary policy and weak antitrust and labour law. Low rates led to a glut of speculation and venture capital in tech over the decades. The free stuff was free because we were the product, and the rest was offered cheap to kill the competition. Laws with teeth and carefully crafted regulations are normally society’s safeguards. Propaganda by corporate media made them a boogeyman.

If we just protected gig workers, if we just busted monopolies and refused walled gardens, if we didn’t let landlords own so much property, etc we’d never be at the mercy of Uber, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Apple, BlackRock, etc. And now that dovish monetary policy is ended and cannot realistically continue, all that free shit has to get worse, be profitable, compete, enshittify. The faerie gold turns to ash in our pockets sooner or later.

All this at a time of unprecedented upward wealth transfer, it’s understandable to feel cynical.

Human nature is what it is, we’re pretty gnarly at our worst. But there has been a deliberate emphasis of the conditions that bring out the worst in us.

I’ve written too much. Sorry for that.

The internet wasn’t a bad idea, we just somehow failed to see how letting billionaires seize the reins of a new global media empire could go badly - despite it being a story as old as time by now…

As a kid I was so thirsty for RPGs without fully realising it that I made way too much of an attempt to like Quest.

Oh god, we’re fucked if this thirsty moron replaces anyone

Feisty lil fella. Get to fuck

See folks? Warm capes are rizzmax… Is that what the kids say now?

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