Lots of sane people arguing against planned obsolescence. Worthy of a signal boost.

Nice catch, defiantly kinda (almost) works here too… 😤

https://m.xkcd.com/566/

Some Outer Wilds vibes here…

That’s hilarious! Reading this I can’t tell if your parents were pulling your leg or horribly racist. Please tell us your parents have a sense of humor.

Buddhists are NOT cannibals.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is downright perfect. Merry Christmas!

7 reasons why you’ll fall in love with Tunic

Good read. Thank you!

Japanese has three alphabets (and the English alphabet… and those Arabic numbers we are all familiar with)

• Hiragana (ひらがな) for native words, grammar, and morphology - it reminds me of cursive
• Katakana (カタカナ) it gives an unmistakable clue you are reading a foreign word - but can also be used for emphasis
• Kanji (漢字) borrows Chinese characters that can be read with native or borrowed sounds, but generally with the same meaning

Given those and the English letters at your fingertips they have a lot of tools to give context. Grab a newspaper or Manga sometime, even if you don’t know the words you can tell each writing system apart pretty easily.

“Hurd OS? Isn’t that obsolete?” “Not obsolete. Just… illegal.” ~Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

I didn’t know star control 1 was on the Genesis. Huge fan of the series! 3 never happened.

I think that’s the point of this post, either as a commentary or specific recommendations to avoid junk. Let’s hope LG or Samsung have some good offers.

Does anyone else see a giant chicken?

Yep. Balance. More generally it’s all about social calibration. Get a good idea of where you are, then aim for the comfortable middle.

Black is white, up is down and short is long…

Keith Apicary’s Classics Gaming Wiz

You forgot to use “—”

IIRC there was a study where people with strong opinions talked to an Al and the process changed their minds.

Edit:

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq1814

Is there a list of Libraries I can register online with if I don’t necessarily live near them? Would like to expand my reach in libby.

Nemesis Games (Expanse Series) had bicycles. Not the strongest book in the series but Amos and Peaches learned how well bikes worked when the shit hit the fans. Very thoughtful authors.