atomicbocks

Even pre-covid I was running into kids at the college I worked at at the time who didn’t know how to use a mouse or a flash drive.

You are correct except it was Worf’s promotion ceremony. Riker’s wedding happened in Nemesis.

AFAIK the only US state in which bananas can grow is Hawaii and they don’t grow that many so they are mostly eaten locally.

Toyota has some ideas about that.

I really don’t get why they did that. They marked up the Maverick Hybrids too and we ended up getting a more expensive Mazda rather than a Maverick because the markup was so much that the Mazda was cheaper out the door. Not even around Covid either, this was the summer of 24.

This is largely because Xbox only exists because Bill Gates liked video games. Ballmer also liked video games and had been around under Gates so he was willing to float Xbox through the 360 era but the whole thing came out of Gates’ obsession with getting Microsoft into the living room in the late 90s. It was at least the 3rd attempt after Web TV/MSNBC and TiVo. The people who are left at MS don’t know how to deal with a passion project and only know how to take money out of things, this is the result.

I have a healthy relationship with sugar following a childhood with limited access because sugary things taste too sweet to me now, as well things like almonds and carrots taste sweet to me.

This is like the one good character moment in the whole movie.

There used to be a lot more public open source companies but a lot of them were bought out. Sun Microsystems, Novell, Silicon Graphics, RedHat, Caldera, Oracle, etc. all are or were companies that made open source software and were publicly traded.

Here you go!

I hate to break it to you but smart phones have been around since before the Web.

My local basketball team recently made it almost to the finals, so my wife and I felt obliged to watch a couple of the games. Holy shit, there was so much advertising. Even when they challenged a call and they had 15 seconds or so they still stick an ad on the screen. They even have ads that are digitally super imposed on the court and you can tell cause they don’t always clip correctly around the players but who cares if it interrupts your watching cause we need our money.