It costs money to run these things so monetization always rears its head.

My state is gerrymandered to death which is probably one reason the right wants to push everything to the states. Easier to divide and control.

A classic term for decades

You have to explain to them how vaccines work. I’m waiting for them to turn on antibiotics next. Soon we’ll be shaking rattles and swallowing toads to cure diseases.

If these people were around 50 yrs ago we’d still have polio and smallpox.

He was entertainment to them. He’s like the frat brother who suddenly says “Let’s do a road trip to Florida!” (from NY) and everyone just laughs and goes “Ok, sure”. Then they see him loading up the car.

I only saw him in concert once.

If you are in IT I’d hope you know some version of Unix. Consumers I wouldn’t expect them to know, they just want it to work and don’t care about configurations and how it works.

Losing your phone now is like losing not just your wallet but simple access to everything.

Even if I was willing to download all of those apps I don’t have room for them. They chew up 50-300mb each (why!?) and if I installed all of them I’d run out of memory. Since most phones now don’t support memory expansion I have to be picky about which ones I use.

I have THREE separate parking apps because I travel.

Even the homeless in my city have smartphones.

“Continue reading this on the reddit/instagram/tik tok/blablah app” No, I didn’t need to see it that badly.

If cutting our tech support staff in half is what is needed to raise our stock price 1 cent and jack up my bonus then so be it.

Petty mods or users would abuse this