I hope you recorded this ... for posterity.

Oof. Hearing this coming out of the mouth of an old man is ... interesting. He's not wrong, but most of them don't want to admit it.

Much like folks aren't "simply disappearing" this time, yes.

Relatable. My wifi depends on one of those loose sockets, so there's an outage weekly when I fidget too much at my desk and cause a dislodgement.

Some of these wall sockets have been around since the 1900's, after all.

Hi Veronica. I'm part of the East Bay Children's Book Project (www.eastbaychildrensbookproject.org). We give away books to people who work with kids, and we have a TON of books to give away right now. Would love to connect with you to get books to these school libraries.

RIP David Lynch, whose Dune movie is still the most succinct and stylish version of that franchise. I'll miss him too.

(Mastodon, works the same way as BlueSky, where federation requires access to most content. There are ways to set up a Masto instance to give a community more privacy - by increasing complexity. In an earlier comment I said Mastodon is less private, which is because it has > 1 instance)