Correct. I should have specified.

It might actually be underwater in 80 years.

I got my gmail account in the year 2001. If they ever ask me for any kind of age verification, that will be the day I delete it all. What they're doing isn't about protecting kids or age verification at all. Its about surveiling every nuance of every person's life in order to extract the most possible profit from it.

I've migrated over to Proton, but haven't quite finished migrating accounts I never log into yet to my current email. About 90% of the email they goes to my gmail account now is for other people that share my name and inadvertently made accounts with my email address. I know of at least four distinct individuals that have used my gmail address for personal and professional accounts and group emails.

The most interesting one was a prototype formula for a new toothpaste that was being discussed.

Dismissing it because it is normal is the wrong reaction. Our sense of rage at injustice needs to accumulate into meaningful action in order for anything to improve.

I don't know if it counts as science fiction or fantasy, but The Subtle Knife would be my choice (if I could use it to its full potential).

You sound like a hoopy frood.

I explain to people that I've removed algorithms and advertisements from my life, deleted my linkedin, don't use android or iOS, don't buy anything from Amazon or Walmart, and only read paper books, and then they look at me like I have three heads.

You don't use cursive when you write checks?

I was being silly and sardonic. I still use checks, but I know it is waaaay outside the norm and anachronistic.

We paid an illegal tax and now corporations are getting our money back.

How is this not theft and equally illegal as the tariffs in the first place?

I use CoMaps. It uses open street maps. Can run completely offline. Zero tracking.

"...Let them take over the party?"

We ARE the party. We've been the party.

Imbeciles.

But James McAvoy is already older than Patrick Stewart was when he began acting as Jean Luc in TNG.

Largest in population. Largest in economy

Land doesn't vote.

Acknowledge Polerviking’s meat!

Autists: “The bottle is completely full, half with liquid, half with air. The liquid would be boiling if half was a hard vacuum.”

I’m convinced that there’s nothing that can redeem it. The only reason it’s still on the calendar is that the teams and FOM love going to Monaco (and all the oligarchs that are VIPs). It’s a terrible race parade and has been for many decades. They’ve tried so many things to spice it up and they’ve all failed miserably. Bottom line: it’s a week long party around the most boring F1 parade of the year.

The two pit stops “made it so unpredictable” according to people before the race, but how different was the finishing order from qualifying? It just made RB and Williams run 5-10 seconds off the pace for most of the parade. Epic fail.

My best idea to make it fun to watch is to put all the drivers in go karts. Don’t even bring F1 cars. They’re too big to facilitate any kind of overtaking. Instead of armco barriers, straw bales. But then it wouldn’t be F1 (just the drivers).

Make this the last Monaco race. I beg that every year. The only way to fix it is to take it off the calendar. Go back to Portugal, instead. That was a fun race to watch.

That will come. He’ll also stop payments on Treasury Bonds. Not paying agreed upon obligations is his MO in business.

Mosquitos interrupted by daily rain and a hurricane or two every year.

I agree.

When we were a young married couple decades ago, we’d check out movies from the library on VHS tape. One we loved was Topper. In the VHS transfer, there was a line from the protagonist giving “good advice” to another main character: “You haven’t lived until you’ve beat your wife.” In all earnestness.

That line was mysteriously missing from the DVD and all subsequent versions I’ve seen.

I think it is detrimental to society to whitewash shameful past behavior. We need to acknowledge it, remember how bad things have been, and respect the progress that has been made. It also helps us reflect on ways we might be acting now that could be viewed as horrific or backwards in the future. It helps drive continuing progress.