Perhaps I’m an old clueless loser, but it’ll never not be weird to me to hear people say shit like, “It’s impossible to weigh less than an ocean liner! No one can control what food they put in their mouth. It’s genetic!” And such like that.
I just fundamentally do not understand.
Microsoft to start implementing more aggressive security features by default in Windows.
Translation: Microsoft plans to prevent you from doing what you want to do on your own machine “for your own good.”
Of course I expect the usual bullshit that people will tell me about how some large corporation knows what’s best for me and how I use my own computer.
And to that I say: fuck all y’all.
What’s the best food that you ever ate ?
“Best” is too broad, but one dish that returns to my mind frequently is some bread pudding we ordered at a café in Santee, South Carolina, a few years ago.
It’s surprising that it happened in America, really. Bread pudding can be boring, but this was fresh out of the oven, filled with various fruit, made with quality ingredients and cooked perfectly. The vanilla ice cream served on the side complemented it like they were made to be together. If I hadn’t already eaten a full meal before that, I would’ve ordered seconds. That bread pudding was shockingly good, the way only food that reminds you how damn good food can be ever is.
That was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten in my life and demonstrates how you don’t know how something really tastes or how amazing it can be until you get a quality version of it.
"I'm winning! I'm winning!" I shout as I steadily retreat while my best troops are killed https://t.co/sb3DcuCxNS pic.twitter.com/F7IMBajxUN
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 11, 2023
If winning looks a lot like losing, it’s losing.
In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then spun it into one of the most mind-bending comments on identity in the digital age I've ever heard. pic.twitter.com/gDWVJa4Anh
— Benjamin Carlson (@bfcarlson) May 10, 2023
Marshall McLuhan’s reputation is well-deserved. He saw much that was inevitable before it occurred and is still more correct and relevant than nearly all digital pundits today. That people still don’t comprehend what he was getting at, mostly, is too bad. Reading McLuhan and Baudrillard can get you 70% of the way to understanding what the hell is going on now and why — and that’s pretty impressive.
Woman asks man for a cigarette, when he refuses she lights his car on fire.
Mom? 😉
(That was still recoverable until he pulled out the nozzle. If he’d immediately taken his jacket off and thrown it over the flame and pressed a little, the fire would’ve gone out in a few seconds. Gasoline itself doesn’t burn — but the fumes do.)