Amazon just sent a notification to my phone letting me know I can watch The Conjuring 4 if I want.
That was the text. The subtext was, "See? Would an evil panopticon that monitored your every whim, ever in a million years recommend to you, totally unprompted, The Conjuring 4?"
RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.
hey therapist cognitive dissonance is like practicing dialectics
A FATHERS DAY THREAD:
Hey everybody whose dad is not in the picture for one reason or another: I am right there with you.
My dad died in 2011. We weren't estranged, but he was such a distant figure in my life that not a lot has changed in our relationship.
just make it like redditors who deleted their accounts. "then in 1994, amazon dot com was founded by [u/deleted]"
in america, soldiers hunt you down and throw you in prison if you touch the public slime pool
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and—
I said look. Look with your eyes!
Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look
And despair
Nothing but the algae remains.
This is a great example of a news story where every individual reported element is factually accurate but someone coming to the story without context would get the exact wrong idea of what was actually happening in the real world.
The whole last decade has been building to this exact op-ed by this exact person.
i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here