Special Olympics

Bloomberg? Really? Fuck paywalls

Oooh, bring slashdot back too.

6. Media changes too much because of enshitification.

Regular users are not the problem, for the most part, assuming decent moderation.

Let someone curate your news for you and don’t doomscroll. I suggest PBS Newshour or one of the three major broadcast news programs.

Corollary: I don’t care about the results when dumb people are polled.

In 2025, how many children will die from raw milk?

I’m considering it. I would cut the military budget in half.

…and they moved all the ads to Prime.

Jellyfin is your friend…

How do you think they would look? To get the news web page in your example, you are still going to have to have to render the page by running the client-side scripts required by modern websites and render some type of markup language for layout. It’s not like web pages are secretly sitting in pure text on a server somewhere…

You are conflating content with delivery protocol. The websites would look the same regardless of protocol.

A. They were always more of a novelty gift rather than a child’s gift.
B. I was 12 when the trend hit and I had no desire to get one. Neither did my younger siblings.
C. N/A as my parents didn’t get me one.
D. The novelty of a gag gift that was pre-packaged.
E. That’s the million dollar question.

Someone once made a mountain of cash selling pet rocks.

Look, no campaign wants to annoy voters but also they want everyone to be contacted. Just respond with “STOP” and it will stop. Unfortunately, every campaign buys your data so nearly ever campaign will send you a text.

Also, they use various services to send these texts so each the numbers sent from will change so you can’t just block them.

What happens if you make a mistake with your initial instructions?

Please don’t throw me in the briar patch!

Where is Craig Kilborn when you need him?