there should be a weekly holiday where everyone agrees not to look at the local datacenters (wherever they are) for the entire day and if the datacenter is mysteriously gone the day after the holiday it’s considered good luck.

nah dude. Laser eyes is a superpower. China is a place.

i’ve been using musicolet for that and i really like it.

holy shartballs that’s way too young for shingles. i thought getting it in my early 30s was bad enough.

my pharmacy charges $100 for a shot of shingle vaccine (if it’s not covered by insurance). i can think of few better public investments than vaccination.

75% market share with the next highest being 15% is an effective monopoly

because he really likes dolphins

yup. my idiot brother consciously made it his personality to dislike everything. he still can’t figure out why he doesn’t have friends. i’ve tried explaining how you build closer relationships over stuff you like rather than stuff you dislike. he doesn’t like that.

my wife “believed” in astrology before and while we were first dating. she used it as an easy way to weed out which guys couldn’t get over themselves over a trivial difference in perspective and figure out how to compromise.

turns out we would both read the astrology section of the newspaper growing up and giggle about how wrong it was. she just figured out a way to use it to find the right people.

If they don’t eat meat they’re just an asshole.

mostly because the vegans we typically run into are militant vegans. you know, assholes. if you’re worrying about what someone else is eating and your primary concern isn’t that they get enough to eat, you’re doing it wrong.

wait you did? aww writing bootdisks was my favorite part of the 286 era.

“shitwhistle” (it’s a slur among sentient trains)

it just cracks me up because if you look for Hays violating shit, it’s everywhere back then. If they wanted to sing about sex, they sang about food.

he doesn’t even look sorry