My first car was a 1985 LTD that was pirpose built to scar. The seat belt, of course, but also fun little things like the controls and the metal bands in the steering wheel.

But it was also super easy to work on because the hood was the size of a small nation and you could get to anything. The big hood also gave the tires plenty of room, so it could turn on a dime. I swear you could rear-end yourself with that thing.

It’s how the pretend it’s a nutritious breakfast.

Yeah. Console optimization used to be a real thing they should bring to PCs. Tomb Raider 2013 and Battlefield 3/4 on the Xbox 360 managed visuals and performance that an equivalently-speced PC from 2005 wouldn’t have been anywhere close to handling.

I dropped a word there. “It doesn’t have to cost…”

A major state university with 45,000 students.

Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn’t some grand sacrifice.

I like that it happened because it’s embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.

When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn’t cost me anything.

And I think that’s the bigger takeaway. It doesn’t have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.

I was very relieved by the end of that sentence.

I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There’s a reason so many grad students don’t go to theirs.

I work for a city that’s an enclave for the mega-rich and is going through hyper-gentrification. People are buying 3 million dollar houses, tearing them down, and building 15 million-dollar houses.

It’s the 1%ers being pushed out by the .01%ers. It’s a whole different planet.

But the contractors still suck and cut every corner they can, so it really is the same anywhere you go.

They walked out of an extremely boring ceremony. That’s nothing.

Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy.

I use vanced and uBlock Origin, but I do also pay for YouTube. I watch more YouTube than anything, and I’m okay paying for it.

But I still use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ad nauseum (really cool if you want to fuck with the algorithms on the stuff that gets through), etc.

Pointing out that Windows Vista is turning 20 this year is a gut punch.

You need different boys.

I got together with some of my old college buds a while back, and they got drunk and started droning on about how much they loved and depended on their wives and how they never imagined they’d grow up to be excited about settling down and redecorating and shit, but that it was amazing.

It was wholesome as fuck.

I love how that also applies to Harry Potter.

Obligatory note: The author is a terrible person and she’ll never get another dime from me.

8 was pretty solid under the hood, but they really pushed that Metro interface, and even if you managed to disable it with something like Start8, it was still crippled by the tablet-first design on an OS that had like 2 tablets. And even with the tablets it sucked because lots of settings were still in the old control panel that required a mouse and keyboard.

If we’d had a Service Pack that just gave us the Win7 UI and the Win8 backend it could have been great.

I’m guessing that’s what I heard a few months ago.

People all around our lake heard a loud explosion at the same time, but nobody ever found the source.

They’re barred from that court, which is the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.

They’re not barred from State, County, or Municipal courts, or from other federal courts because the judge only has control over their District.

Ads aren’t always there to get you to buy something specific. In fact, an ad you don’t interact with is a better ad because they don’t have to pay for click-through.

You don’t want to buy brand A because they have ads, so you buy brand B instead, but both widgets are owned by the same holding company. Or they’re made in the same factory. Or they use the same components. Or they have the same shareholders. Any way you slice it, the same rich assholes are getting your money.

The goal of the Ads is to put a bug in your head and get you to buy something.

And that’s just the Ads. The tracking is also (increasingly primarily) about political manipulation and surveillance.

They’re barred from presenting federal cases in the Northern District of Mississippi. That covers all federal cases for 36 counties - half the state.

The point is control, not safety.

If they can use a system to prosecute anyone, they can target anyone they don’t like.