The fleshlight

Oh fuck that.

Oh hey look a block button.

Zero tolerance. No conversation. No benefit of the doubt. Zero.

Uh, no. That’s a 3 year old.

Here’s my “symbolic image compressor”:

American Gothic is a painting of two people standing in front of a farmhouse. One has a pitchfork.

Are you impressed? I used symbols to compress the image down to under a kilobyte. And I didn’t need an AI.

For me it’s remembering those same phone numbers from 35 years ago.

I’d only heard of him in the sense of him being one of a flock of fascist wastes of oxygen who grifted around the country spewing hate and violence and making people’s lives worse and more dangerous. He was a name on a list of scum who we’d be better off with them never having been born.

All I’ve learned about him since is that I was fucking right. Having him not exist anymore is a net gain in the long term but he’s still pissing me off for now by the fact that I’m wasting my fucking time and my fucking attention and my fucking blood pressure on his fucking bullshit even more than I was.

He can fucking rot with Rush Limbaugh and Joseph Goebbels and the rest of their fucking detestable cabal of fucking filth. If I never hear his fucking name again it’ll be too fucking soon and the universe still owes me my fucking time back from every moment I’ve wasted having to fucking be exposed to this shit.

Truly the devil’s panties.

And we were right.

A machine that cannot feel hunger must not be allowed to choose whether to feed a person.

Period.

AI slop AND US politics. Great.

Nobody fucking cares and nobody is going to fucking care.

Cool. I’m not going to do that another three times when I can spend less money on phones that don’t break.

Not to mention Google doesn’t do stores where I live.

During which time I have no phone.

Not acceptable. Bought something else.

I have owned 3 pixels.

5a - bricked randomly 8 - screen failed within 6 months 6a - stuck in a bootloop, gave up on fixing it just before the battery issue made headlines

I gave them a fair shake. Never again.

absolutely have to

absolutely have to

And if I can’t, I’ll just stop using the internet for anything I don’t absolutely have to.

I don’t really need my smartphone. A laptop will do.

Except that’s exactly what we want. Google services that respect privacy and aren’t full of ad cancer.

Only if they’ll put in a bigger washer fluid reservoir.