Since 2020. Covid broke a lot of brains. Once people started driving again, it’s like they forgot (or rejected) all the rules. Bad behavior that I rarely saw, like blatantly running red lights, aggressive driving, using turning lanes as passing lanes (even through intersections) went from rare to daily.

I picked up Pikmin (Gamecube) when my first child was an infant, so my parenting skills were always intertwined with those little idiots.

USA: Prison

Canada: Antisocial Prison

Italy: Camp

France: Dirty Prison

Sweden: Ikea showroom

Switzerland: Monochrome Minimalist

Norway: Winter shut-in

Denmark: College dorm

I grew up in California and they didn’t teach it.

Lies of omission count? I was in my 40s before I ever heard of the Tulsa Massacre.

I mean, this is so on the nose, it has to be on purpose.

Ah, the ball pit. Innocent times.

despite his history of promoting conspiracy theories

??? Because of that. Seems pretty obvious.

The economy Microsoft’s lunch.

I’m sure she thought surely, he wouldn’t fuck her over.

Al-Qaeda trained in Afghanistan, Sudan, and had ties to people in Pakistan. 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, although 3 of the 4 pilots (who were the leaders and apparently the only ones who knew the plan was a suicide mission) were not Saudi; those were from Egypt, UAE, and Lebanon.

In the immediate aftermath, as details first came out about the identities of the hijackers, there was a lot of anger towards Muslims in general and Saudis in particular, especially after it became public that the Bush administration had allowed several members of the Saudi royal family to fly out of the US while all US airspace was supposed to be closed. In the intervening years, whether because of active rehabilitation efforts by the Saudis or by wider acceptance of Al-Qaeda as a pan-Arab organization, I feel like that anti-Saudi sentiment has cooled.

I thought it was interesting that the headline came from Sky, which was a News Corp company under Rupert Murdoch and known for being biased towards Trump. I didn’t know they were bought by Comcast in 2017, and apparently are planned to be spun off rather than be included in the purchase of NBCUniversal to Larry Ellison via Paramount.

Saw “qapla” on a license plate today.

Good. Boycott it.

Hear hear. I have a white collar office job and make a good deal as a tech manager. I get a salary from my employer; therefore I am working class.

End game for Twitter/X and xAI; SpaceX took on significant debt to give Elon billions for them, now they are dragging SpaceX value down before they are foisted onto the shareholders. How long after the IPO will xAI get dissolved?

I was going to make a joke about the band taking aim at Palantir instead of a cybersecurity incident, but then I read the article and saw that satire is dead. Cool idea, though.

Monday already? Time to put in those options contracts.

Imagine if we had a single election in November with ranked-choice voting.

I giggle every time. “…then how do you explain the detail of the chocolate chip cookie?”