The excuse is, and has always been, “Because we can”. Never think otherwise.

I was thinking Belgian.

People googling how to download chrome and clicking wikipedia instead of the download link that I’m sure would be at the top?

… go on.

Don’t worry, because of financial difficulties owing to tariff bullshit the office I work(ed) at closed the office for Christmas week! Unpaid vacation for everyone!

On Lemmy, definitely.

Is it only half a package of fudge stripe cookies because part of the process is eating the other half?

Apparently it lets you chat with an AI agent to power-browse the internet.

… I feel I have an idea of what this means, but it still breaks my brain just a little bit.

I am now bankrupt.

If a perfect world requires that we hide it from 99% of the population… that’s not a perfect world, it’s an echo chamber.

Ignorance is bliss.

Sure they are, they’re called helicopters.

The problem with flying cars isn’t that it’s not possible, it’s that it’s not possible to do safely. People can’t seem to stay out of each others way in two dimensions, much less three.

I usually just use email.

Pen and paper? What’s that?

Probably one of those pre-announcements. Or they had AI determine the announcement date.

A shot of water is approximately 20oz

Why would you saddle that child with all that debt?

Netflix is after far more than the Warner Bros. movie studio — it wants to destroy cinema as we know it.

Totally not hyperbolic or anything.

What’s more, cable TV itself is in a death spiral — largely thanks to Netflix itself.

… oh no. Anyway…

Less global warming more genocidal megalomaniacal space dictator whose favorite manor of execution is sending boeing aircrafts full of political dissidents into volcanoes.

Rule 76: Every once in a while declare peace, it will confuse the hell out of your enemies.