Don’t mock them. Thank them for at least trying. Peace.

No one system is perfect. Humans can’t be pinned down and are often at odds with their own beliefs. The best we can shoot for is “Communish” and “Socialish” and just try our best to look out for one another and the planet.

The way the tech world has unfolded in the last 25 years is bound to make most people cynical.

This poster seems to indicate that piracy and/or communism are bad things. They are not. Capitalism is a bad thing (unless you are at the top 10% of the wealthiest people on earth). A bit of an imbalance that is not good. When I say ‘poster’ I mean the image (like posters they used to sell at K-Mart), not the person who posted.

This also describes hiding shrinkage.

This reminds me of an Italo Calvino short story about a guy doing backyard telescope observatory space viewing (whew) and he spots someone holding a sign on a distant star stating “I know what you did”. The viewer now starts calculating exactly where he would have been at the time including light speed and distance light travels to reach him and all sorts of other calcs until he determines the time in the past and finally realizes “Whoa! He saw that!?”.

Low self-esteem.

Bluesky seems like the colour of little aryan eyes.

Hey kids! Pirating is cool, right? Who here likes to pirate, my friends? /s

You should get back what you paid for that fridge now that it’s ad supported. C’mon Samsung! Give us our fridge money back!

This is fake. U.S. doesn’t engage in scientific research anymore. It’s a waste of money that could be sitting in trump’s bank account.

I’ll sell them my birth date information. They already got their filthy lucre from buying and selling my name all over the place, why shouldn’t I get a cut from things I own?

This is western lore. In the old west there were prostitutes in a lot of small towns and because of lack of infrastructure they would only be able to wash themselves once a year, during winter of all times. Because of the deep snow the wagon was converted with runners to pull it across the snow from town to town. Only one prostitute could wash up at a time though, so they had to take turns. A New Yorker heard of this practice and put it in a song that eventually changed with the times. The line used to be…“Dashing through the snow, in a one-whore soapin’ sleigh.” Merry Christmas and best of the season to all!

If they sold it to the government then I want my cut of the name money, if I’m on that list. If every piece of crap business/corporation is requiring me to give my name and then sells my name, I deserve at least 50% of that dosh! Class action anyone?

Sigh!

It’s only more of the epstein shuffle. Those ships will be given back very soon now. It’s his last ditch effort before the compost hits the Cuisinart.

It was worse in the 70’s. We had to fill out a lot of forms in triplicate, using real carbon copy paper, and have them vetted and approved by the local municipal government, just to play tag.

Wasn’t purple a “royal” colour back in Roman toga times? Maybe it was called something different?

Creating something from nothing is always a good hobby. Whether it be a jigsaw puzzle or planning/designing a game that does not exist yet.

I bought a ZTE last year as my first “cell phone”. I hardly ever use a phone and when I do use a phone I don’t like it. For what I use it for the monthly fee is way too high. I’d probably spend less than 10 dollars a month if it was like an old timey public “payphone”. I no longer want to do ph’d level research just to discover what to purchase or find the cheapest alternative. The world has become too complicated or maybe I have become too stupid/lazy in my elder years.