Let’s watch Hanna Reid and her great voice. Well, you can’t watch her voice. Not unless you’ve done quite a bit of LSD. But it’s infinitely more fun than ranting about anti-evidential buttnuggets.
I don’t even like the song all that much, but I fucking love her voice.
I have another post in store about phenomena related to these ideas, but let’s talk about when the Gnome3/Windows 8/SystemD braindead contingent claim that, “Well, people hated Windows 95 when it came out, too!”
Or Windows XP. To bolster the fuckwit idea that “people just hate change” for making products so terrible that people won’t even despoil their compost pile with them.
Both claims are false. I remember very well when Windows 95 came out. Windows XP, too. Windows XP was released into a big recession and had other headwinds, but it was indeed greeted warmly and was widely welcomed as a big improvement.
However when Windows 95 came out it was such an upgrade that people went absolutely apeshit about it. No joke. People not only didn’t hate change, they were clamoring for it. Here’s what it looked like just about everywhere.
People lined up at midnight. Stores were jam-packed the night of its launch and for weeks afterward. I witnessed this myself, in person, with my own eyes.
So no, dumbasses, there was no significant backlash against Windows 95 or Windows XP.
People don’t hate change. They just hate bad tools, bad design, and your specific mega-failures that you like to call a “user interface.”
Yeah, I am talking to you, Gnome 3 developers — and Windows 8 developers.
My family was poor, especially when I was 0-7. Poor enough that I thought getting a piece of white bread was a treat.
So it’s weird and humbling to think that this year our household will be in the top 5% of US earners.
How did that even happen?
I think inflation-adjusted I’ll make this year alone more than my dad probably did total from 18-40.
Dang.
It’s so much better than what I thought my future would be: dead or in prison by 25.
Go me.