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  • Tom Bombadil started as his children's toy who became the narrator of his children's bedtime stories.

    Out of those, grew The Hobbit.

    LotR was an intentional effort to turn the setting of the Hobbit into an epic fantasy.

  • Yes, but Americans hating their government is exactly what got us here.

    Doubling down on that sentiment is only going to make things worse.

    You understand that, right?

  • Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

    Apple's standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

  • The first conspiracy was Watergate.

    After Watergate, Late night FM (new at the time) programming filled with a bunch of "Well what else is the government hiding from us?"

    Someone eventually proclaimed that aliens were covered up at the Roswell Incident, which everyone had forgotten about after 20 years.

  • deepseek

  • AI is either a solution in search of a problem,

    or it's the next scheme designed to gobble up as much VC money as possible and boost NVIDIA stock value, now that the Cryptocurrency bubble has passed.

  • BDSM

  • 8 was at least an attempt to try to make things better for home users and get away from win32 cruff.

    Like or hate the exact approach they took, you have to admire the spirit.

    10 and 11 has been Microsoft saying "fuck em. They won't ever be happy steal everything you can while they're still here."

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    s_s @lemm.ee

    Columbus Day Rule