Remember when the web didn’t suck?
No, I don’t. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things… and finds new ways to suck.
It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners.
Looks to me like some of the boys at Fermilab came up with an experiment to keep Schrodinger’s cat inside the box but visible the whole time.
Did you know that at Fermilab if you’re a boy, you get to play around with cool collapsable wave functions, and if you’re a girl, you get to play around with groovy flavor-changing neutrinos.
I gotcha, I was just thinking how Patreon has been vital for nurturing a vast digital ecosystem of content creators who are in it as a labor of love.
EDIT: typo
The same goes for a lot of YouTube channels.
In fact, I opened a Patreon account just to show a little monthly support for an excellent, criminally underrated creator of videos on astronomy and its’ history, ParallaxNick.
Among other topics, the guy recently finished a four-part series on Galileo, a two-parter on Kepler before that, a single on Copernicus before that. By my calculations, I’m guessing a six-part masterpiece on Newton is right around the corner.
Have you ever been to an oil and air filter warehouse?
Some are more common than others, but there are hundreds of different types, and some of them vary by a millimeter in diameter from the more common ones.
They couldn’t design the inlet to fit a pre-existing filter already in circulation, no sir, instead of any sort of compatibility they felt compelled to make up their own fucking specification and parameters that varied by a tenth of a percentage point.
That can only be the work of engineers, and from the looks of that oil filter warehouse, or from the different types of electrical sockets, the contrary bastards are everywhere, they REFUSE to meaningfully communicate with each other, and will NOT listen to reason.
More recently, look at crypto. For every well-meaning and thoughtful endeavor like Bitcoin or Ethereum, there are ten thousand shitcoins. Many are just greedy con jobs, but many are also due to stubborn and petty, noisy squabbles over minutiae. Suddenly the whole damn space was a hive of useless noise and confusion.
Yet one more item in an endless exhibit of how mankind is unable to standardize anything at all. Get TWO engineers together to agree on ONE standard plug and the assholes will come out with THREE separate plugs, completely non-compatible with each other, of course.
It’s almost like a miracle that we got the world to agree on certain things like time and timezones, a system of coordinates, the metric system.
All of them received initial pushback, and some to this day. Noisy, noisy fucking humans.
Did you know that for a few decades, every town in the UK kept two different times on adjacent clocks? Back when their railway grid was expanding everywhere. Local time and London time.
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Talk about doublespeak. Double-plus-good, eh?
What about DJ Qualls in “The Core”?
While being interrogated in his introduction sequence, he casually folds an aluminum chewing gum wrapper, puts it to his lips and kinda whistles with it for a second, while holding a cell phone in front of his mouth. After this little public display of phreaking, he hands the cell phone over to the hero and says “Here… now you can call anywhere free for life with it”.
“I love shitposts.”
“Ah, yes. But they are so much better if you read them in the original Klingon.”
If a Kolvoord Starburst goes off in The Neutral Zone
and there’s no one there to see it,
Must Wesley still shut up?
Laser blasts you in the face from his hidden pistol phaser under the table.
Also… shall we put that one on Riker?
Live long, and may The Force be with you.
Scotty letting out a long whistle as he unscrews the cap off his phaser-shaped whisky flask
Mr Worf scoffing in disgust at the screen
“Mr Data, disable AdBlock.”
“Are you certain, Captain? I advise against it.”
“Proceed, Mr Data.”
“Very well, Sir…”
HOT LONELY SINGLES NEAR YOU IN >DELTA QUADRANT< ARE WAITING RIGHT NOW TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When I learned that Corinthian Leather™️ is made-up marketing bullshit.
Corinthian leather, from Córdoba… jesss!
Yeah? Well I heard there’s some bootlegs circulating in and around The Neutral Zone. You didn’t hear it from me, but ask a Ferengi in the area, he’ll know someone who knows someone who might have a copy available.
What about Cap’n Kirk reciting “Rocket Man”, then?
Does this sound like the prototypical clickbait headline title, or what do you say?