If they banned drinking coffee indoors, you'd see people greedily and overzealously tapping the bottom of the cup for the last drop of precious magic fluid to touch their quivering tongue before entering a building.

Incidentally I'll take the smell of a fruit vape cloud over coffee sphincter breath all day long.

The support you're receiving here may be a bit flaccid

Literary genius. Thank you to the author for writing this entertaining piece. Plus, while tongue in cheek, there are some very true observations about corporate branding becoming bland and uncreative. Definitely involve some element of adolescent feedback in your focus group.

Purportedly. Nothing is independently verifiable outside of a black box.

Federate. Anonymize. Consensus based moderation. Without that we succumb to tyranny.

Federate. Anonymize. Consensus based moderation. Without that we succumb to tyranny.

Oh shit. I didn't actually think he'd try to usurp the entire judiciary and render it obsolete when I gave him unlimited presidential immunity. I gave the leopard water. Why would it try to eat my face?

What if wake time is really a simulation?

"valuation" I suppose. The "value" that we project onto something whether that something has truly earned it.

Variations of this narrative are commonplace. Back the spew until it happens to you.

Ah the scenarios we are forced to imagine with back to office mandates. I'll go with Dayzie because we have similar ideologies about deodorant and I can't wait for someone to complain to Susan so I can be oppositionally defiant.

These people are walking among us. Worse - they sometimes breed.

It's a likely outcome and taxpayers will bear the brunt. If we increased the civil payout to billions, I suspect there would be greater pressure to get this slimy fuck out ASAP because the cost is too high and actually stings enough to cause action.

Biden screwed the pooch on this one. Don't promise something like this that you can't - or know you won't - deliver.

"But he thought he could and met with unanticipated partisan resistance", you say.

Really? You surround yourself with the smartest, Ivy League educated staff and cabinet picks and none of them anticipated that and/ or alerted you to the eventual legal and political roadblocks.

Not buying it. Almost impossible that this outcome was not predicted.

Add the reversal of bodily autonomy, the expiration of the child tax credit and a host of quality of life downgrades and you're losing voters.

Linux squashes root over ssh. An OEM could preinstall a sudo user to get around this but that kind of BS would be their death knell as a vendor.

Neither Linux nor Windows but it's a sensible guess :)

Nothing to do with Windows? Are we sure about that? Asus is a Windows OEM that pre installs Windows and has enough privileged access to insert a surreptitious executable compiled specifically for Windows.

Yes, agreed, if they chose a *nix like OS and they had root, they could do the same thing and that would be equally shitty. It is Windows OEMs that exhibit this kind of fsckery and yes we do have a choice.

Windows is a choice. You made it. Congratulations.

Engaged in amorous behavior with a woman some years younger than him.

Hyperbole until it isn't. We used to think supposition of settled law being overturned was outlandish. The world has changed and incontinent orange man is now talking about buying Greenland. Hyperbole until it isn't.