And child trafficker. I wasn’t sure there was anything worse than child rapist, but Trump always finds ways to lower the bar.

“Well if I knew I was only going to get $100 million I wouldn’t have started the company”

said no one ever

I think the attitude definite changed. If your computer crashed, it used to be like “pretty please send us a crash report? It will help us figure stuff out and we promise we’ll be good with your data 🥺”, and now it’s like “I will collect OUR data all the time. If you want to disable this feature, run this archaic registry command, and even then I’ll still ask repeatedly. Oh, and I’ll turn it back on a few months anyway. Fuck you”

Ty! Downloaded

That only has screenshots and a link to Instagram which wants me to sign in 😢

Anyone have a link to the video? Trying to save all of these since they tend to disappear

Really? But how?

In what way? If anything, it costs Microsoft money

We’ll find out in 30 years

Through the magic of “Trump doesn’t give a fuck”

Walk into class

Pull laptop out of bag, put it on the desk

Whip out mechanical keyboard

Mouse, small set of stereo speakers

Pull out a large object wrapped in a blanket

Everyone else watches confusedly

Take off blanket, unveiling a 28in monitor

Whip out power strip

Put power strip on the adjacent desk, no one is sitting there anyway

20ft extension cord

The outlet is on the far wall, run the extension cord between the desks

Apologize to everyone bumped into a long the way

Play World of Warcraft the entire time

You raise a lot of good points. But for me, it was better in that there was still a lot of hope to go around. Things generally seems on the up and up. Technology was getting better. This new Internet thing was getting better and faster. The economy was getting better. The government still enforced anti-trust laws. We (the US) weren’t at war. Climate change still seemed very fixable. We were dealing with the hole in the ozone and acid rain, we’ll deal with everything else! The scientists will figure it out.

Now it just feels like the world is going to shit and there’s nothing we can do. Even when “good” things happen, it feels more like we’ve only “slowed down” a bit as we continue careening toward the cliff.

We’re past, like, all the points of no return for the climate. Corporate power feels unstoppable. Open corruption is rampant and normalized throughout the world’s governments. The major powers are arming themselves and not cooperating. World War 3 is scheduled for 2027 if it doesn’t happen before then. And the response to COVID showed that our systems and infrastructure are balanced like a house of cards.

So maybe the y-value was lower in the 90s, but the curve definitely felt like it was sloping upward. Now we’re past the peak.