I dream of musk reduced to working at a cell phone accessory kiosk in a forgotten mall, peddling glittering iPhone cases and rambling about how he made comedy legal again.

Hating Musk is one of the few things we can all agree on.

Not surprising, what else do you expect him to eat?

I’m this old.

I have a Unihertz Titan and love it. I guess they skirted around the keyboard patent. https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan

Compared to Internet Explorer it certainly was awesome, as I recall.

This is fine. I don’t want mainstream users. I want niche weirdos.

Britney Spears - Toxic, Shittyflute version.

PH agrees, they aren’t checking IDs, they are suspending access to states that have those laws.

Surfshark is something like $55 for 2 years; well worth it.

Tennessee as well.

Huh. And I suppose it’s impossible to say if it was immediately before the explosion, or some time before… the Cybertruck could have self-driven his dead body straight to Trump’s door before blowing up.

Oh, I didn’t know audacity would do it. Well I know how I’m wasting time at work the rest of this week…

I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way. The quality isn’t the best, this is a CD rip because I’ve long since lost the original files, but since it’s experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn’t hurt much I guess.

https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance

When do we get to the part of the episode where James T Kirk, prime directive be damned, finds the meglomaniacal computer controlling these men, and blows it up?

Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, images, executables, DLLs, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.

I used to game with a guy who spent an absurd amount of money on a d20 made of meteorite.

It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn’t. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn’t be surprised if you rolled red.

News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don’t want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it’s a scoreboard. I didn’t want him to win, but the polls weren’t wrong.

Ah, good. So the corrupt, evil, and greedy tactics of health insurers are finally mitigated to… checks notes oh, to what they were last week.

You know they’re sitting on a wish list of awful policies while they’re waiting for this to blow over so they can implement them when we aren’t looking. Fuck that.

Why make up a religion, when you can join an already established one, and then foment a schism? The Church of the SubGenius welcomes all heretics.