Whether technology is inherently bad is of nearly no matter. The problem we’re dealing with is the technologies with exherent badness.

Disable your auto spellchecker!

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Knowing him, he probably decided to solve that one with a water hose.

And that’s why my “necessary life skill” cooking lifehack is to just know that if you cook something big enough, it’ll last you enough portions for two or three days without that much extra cooking work. And you’ll only have to clean the cooking pot half (or one third) of the time.

$15000 is rookie numbers.

I can offer $150 for one!

Nothing in the text indicated humor.

It’s called observing reality. For example, gay marriage is illegal in several states, slavery only got legalized to ~40 hrs a week, incarcerated men and women are deprived the right to vote, etc.

Come on it’s not that hard.

Are you sure? Legal means it has to be legal everywhere, otherwise you can just get the same treatment eg.: doctors get for providing abortion. Nowadays, that means you can get ICEd by an out-of-state order.

slavery has been abolished

[citation needed]

all men and women can vote

[citation needed]

child labor abolished

[citation needed]

40 hour work week

[citation needed]

gay marriage legal

[citation needed]

Maybe COVID will be so bad that it will facilitate me go get into exercise

Health, being about people or countries, does not work that way.

I mean, “compares as bad” is comparable, right? :p

Isn’t it dangerous now that PDFs can run javascript? (Who had that idiotic idea, anyway?)

Despite the failures (or needs-of-improvement) of the current federation model, it is absolutely safe against that. Federation is copies, not links.

Well, that’s just about as good news as can be in the current tech climate, in particular considering programs like VLC and KeePass are getting this visibility.

There is a non-zero chance that if you press it, you become smarter enough to realize you shouldn’t have pressed it…

Amerikkka!

I seem to remember the creator of Wolfenstein asking that question shortly before the release of one of their games, in the late 2000s I think. We should have seen the writing on the wall.

In other words, these veterans did what was asked of them.

They could just have not.

Please at least (or, well, at most) make it 8.1…