Good point!

Nope, some game called “IfSunSets” that I’m not going to try 🤷

Far from it, dude.

I can’t speak for the residents of your town, but I too would be delighted to see bird pictures everywhere 😁

Not many people know it, but penguins are excellent brick layers and if they were smart enough, ostriches and emus would make excellent guard birds! Also, kiwis are just adorably awkward, so they’re there to keep the morale up 😉

Not to be confused with Handsy Bill who’s serving 7 months at the local penitentiary.

Company SC656788 is still named ROBERT’); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; LIMITED

Beautiful! Whatever they’re selling, I’m buying!

Not to mention the fact that huge billboards along streets and roads are by definition either ineffective or an impediment to traffic safety, depending on whether or not they manage to catch your attention while you’re operating a vehicle…

Absolutely. Hell, with how much of the heavy lifting they’re doing for corporations destroying most aspects of the world, it should probably be illegal to advertise at all except in strictly limited circumstances.

Remember the good old days when you got ads INSTEAD of directly paying rather than in addition to forking over already extortionate sums to profiteering megacorps? Pepperidge Farm does.

This much

Why sleep in cotton sheets on a spring mattress for $1 in dues when we can offer this manure-soaked bed of straw for only $5 in wage theft?

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In fact, I heard Buddhariffic came second in the local niceness championship! Would have come first, but voluntarily gave the title to a guy who’d had a bad day and could use some cheering up!

Those are the kind of people who will always find something to ridicule or complain about, though, so you should never let their hypothetical bitching affect your decisions.

I’m guessing you wouldn’t be happy with Frozen Navigation Gestures… Perhaps Gaseous Navigation Gestures?

You make some good points, but you’re also overstating the power of captology to the point of sounding paranoid tbh. Pretending that someone who’s aware of it, how it works and its goals is still completely powerless to resist is some misanthropic bullshit that gives some people (aware “consoomers” 🙄) far too little credit and others (the people developing captology and other disgustingly manipulative marketing strategies) far too much.

Is gaslighting and other propaganda, whether by human or technology, much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit? Definitely. Is it the Borg, though? Absolutely not.

That worked! Thank you so much!

I don’t think I did, no… should I have? Even getting past the brainfart of forgetting a crucial keyword (realtek), I’m still not having much luck with whatever I can find online…

It’s able to log onto my wifi but acts like it doesn’t have access to the Internet through it. It’s an ancient HP Envy…