Listen, Valve promised me a cake, and it turned out to be a lie.

Since when does Microsoft care about (consumer) Windows?

They haven’t. Not for a long time. Probably not since pre-XP and the convergence on the NT kernel. (Don’t get me wrong, moving to the NT kernel was absolutely needed…but now, desktop functionality is “secondary”)

As long as they sell Windows Server and Windows Pro/Enterprise, nothing of value is lost.

And the added GamePass subs probably also boosts Azures value, because I assume a lot of it runs on that infra.

I’ve got sciatica in one of my legs. Not bad enough to justify a handicap spot (although those never have a cart coral near them), but bad enough that some days it is, actually, very painful to walk. Especially the walk back from the coral, where I don’t have the cart to lean on.

In fact, I often appreciate when people don’t put a cart away, and I can find a stray cart on the way to the store.

I still put the carts away when I’m done, and usually try to park near the cart coral as a result…with one exception: this fucking Dollar Tree near me, where their carts are all absolute shit to begin with and there’s one cart coral and no parking spots anywhere near it. I park against an embankment under some trees where there is always space and shade.

Usually there’s already a cart there waiting for me. When I’m done, I leave it pushed up against the embankment, back wheels on pavement, front wheels on grass, so it can’t roll back into the lot, and right in between the parking spots so it is easy to retrieve by the next customer.

Wtf is the point??

Is someone out there drinking Budweiser…for the taste?

Got to love anybody who invites you to a private island and tells you you won’t be allowed to leave or call for help.

He intentionally moved that couch there to be in his frame. He wanted his dog in his background. It’s directly in front of that door, blocking a narrow walking path, in an otherwise well-kept home. I doubt that he lives with that there everyday.

Not sure why, I can’t get my dog or kids out of my office fast enough when I’m on a video call.

There are more people eating sharks than there are sharks eating people.

We are in their territory. We get to be apex predator in land. They get to be apex predator in sea. This is an agreement we’ve had for a long time.

It’s kind of sad that we are joking about this…

Like, really, making light of it is exactly what they want. This type of shit needs to be treated seriously.

Memes like this only serve to desensitize us to the dark reality.

This is, quite literally, pro-MAGA propaganda, intended for anti-MAGA audience. To diffuse us.

They do this all the time. Use of dark humor to get people to lighten up about terrible situations. School shootings. War. Genocide. Domestic violence. Police brutality. Rape. And then it’s all just a joke, and nobody cares anymore.

This is Fat Bastard, a character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers franchise.

Lighter fluid works well for taking care of that.

Just pour it on the Walmart and light a match.

As a queer guy I could see playing with the phrase that way, much like how my friends call each other the F word,

My wife used to work with a guy like that, in a supermarket chain.

Around Christmastime he says to my wife…“You’ve heard of elf on the shelf? Well how about…”…and just stopped there, and straddled a long, thin loaf of French bread like a witch riding a broom.

My wife, being the type of ally who would never use that word, just kinda stared at him blankly. She didn’t get it.

Meanwhile when she told me this story I nearly keeled over laughing. Not because of the joke but just because of her reaction to it.

Land of Lakes is a farmer-owned co-op…but from 1989 until 2007, Kraft was owned by Phillip Morris (the tobacco company now known as Altria).

Marlboro and EasyMac were corporate cousins.

These people literally think their shit don’t stink.

My god. This administration couldn’t be more on the nose if their noses were literally browned.

Next season on GOP…going around with black shoe polish on their noses.

Tbf Taron makes an excellent Elton.

I gotta wonder if his role as Johnny (the gorilla) in Sing is what led to him as Elton in Rocket Man.

Is Elton John hosting Carpool Karaoke now?

You’re really dismissing the reality that the biggest reason dems didn’t show was because the troll farms and their disinformation/amplofication worked.

Or do you just not understand? Because that’s fine too. That just means it worked on you.

Let me clarify. They didn’t just hype up the red guy. They also drowned out the blue gal. A lot of the “both sides” talk, all of the “but muh genocide” abstaining voters…some, sure, were real, but most of those that were, were pushed there by the bot farms.

Propaganda isn’t just glorifying the leader. The other real important part is inhibiting the opposition.

They all knew, and continue to know, that they didn’t have to get people to vote for Trump. That’s a fools errand. Most everybodies mind was made up about him well the elections.

But keeping people from voting for Harris is just as effective. Because ultimately the winner has to be one of the two parties. We can hem and haw all we want about the need for third parties (and that’s totally true), but the fact is that it will always be a two party system until the voting system get fixed, and it will always be the same two parties until one inevitably implodes on itself and re-brands. Republicans are very much aware that the easiest way to win isn’t to attract voters, but to disuade people who vote against them.

They gave up the honey a long time ago, and they’ve gone all-in on vinegar.

Let’s stick to reality tho…neither did Republicans. Troll farms did, and people bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Buckle up my man. Remember how shit programming got during, and then following, the writers guild strike? How many shows just…could not recover?

Imagine if the writers were to strike again. They’d be replaced with AI scabs in a heartbeat.