Boomer Humor Doomergod

It’s been this way since I bought my first Performa back in 95.

I got some RAM and a dozen Zip disks for Christmas instead of

I haven’t been this shocked since I found out the original McGruff voice actor was arrested with a bunch of guns and weed plants

They used to, but it didn’t boost ad engagement so they stopped.

Considering Leonard Maltin gave Laserblast the same 2.5 stars as Temple of Doom I guess B is in the eye of the beholder

Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man are B movies?

Nah, the rocks are fine. It’s putting seeds in the ground that’s the problem. That’s how the seeds get you to do their bidding.

I feel barely human most days, because we are all collectively heinous, so I must have missed that.

Agriculture was a mistake.

Ketchup on a burrito that you don’t know is called a burrito is up there with putting ketchup on a well-done steak

It’s so American to be ashamed of the world laughing at us, and not at all the heinous shit we’ve done.

I agree with a lot of what you said, and maybe “fractured” wasn’t the right word to use. It’s more like “shattered”

Take advertising, for example. Back in the days of broadcast media they had to make broadly appealing ads. Ads people would talk about around the water cooler.

Now we can target ads very specifically, so I may never see an ad that you see.

People are still talking about inane things because that’s how we do, but there’s more niches and communities than before, and they’re more siloed.

I especially agree with this part:

I think we are seeing the ends of the safeties this form of democracy has to provide

The printing press brought down hereditary monarchies. The Internet may bring down nationalist liberal democracy.

Let’s hope what replaces it is as much of an improvement.

This is ancillary but perhaps contributing to it due to a lack of shared context. (For example, if someone asks me about a funny commercial I won’t have seen it and can’t relate.)

I’m thinking more like the zeitgeist has fractured.

One could argue that the lack of a shared, verifiable experience like radio or live TV has contributed to the breakdown of social cohesion. Everyone can see what they want, whenever they want, instead of seeing what everyone else sees.

My fiancé works at a vet clinic that uses it and she says the doctors love it. The customers, however, don’t like that there’s an AI that listens to their visit so they just say it’s “software”

Williamsport, PA has a “Millionaire’s Row” of Victorian mansions that the timber barons built.

I was briefly employed at a firm that maintained the sales commission software for a large telecom firm.

It was 1.5 million lines of VB6, though VB8 was already three years old. Nobody knew all of it, so they couldn’t possibly rewrite it to handle all the edge cases and special incentives we kept having to add.

Except maybe the lone QA person, who would frequently begin sobbing at her desk. And we could all hear it because it was an open plan office and we weren’t allowed to wear headphones.

That job was so bad I quit and began freelancing.

Functional, yes. But rarely are these sorts of things efficient. They’re covered in decades of cruft and workarounds.

Which just makes them that much harder to port to a different language. Especially by some 19 year old who goes by “Big Balls”

Solution: Create an open source foundation, cram the board with Google employees

Amazon’s gonna buy the rights and do a James Bond crossover.

They can extract value from just the existence of your account. If they wanted to run an ad campaign to convince people to use them they can cross reference your email and any other demographic info.

Someone - maybe not you but someone like you - will buy an Apple product because of this.

Source: I used to work for a big data company

Yeah but it got you to create an Apple account