Remember when the Mars Climate Orbiter turned into a smoking fireball in 1999 because one NASA team was using metric and another was using English Invasion Units (aka imperial)? Good times.

Facebook: 3 billion users
WhatsApp: 2.5 billion
Instagram: 2 billion

Three of the largest four are owned by Meta. Facebook alone has 43% of the world's population using it.

"Not a monopoly."

Appearing on the top left of the screen, mostly unnoticed: "Skynet will remember this."

I just finished reading the book two days ago. Stayed up till about 3am to hit the end. Freaking loved it.

It shouldn't be necessary compile ANYTHING with GCC to have a Perl module. There shouldn't be 5,000,000 tests that run after. It's unnecessarily complex, slow, and just *old*.

Ohh I love that wallpaper. It's purrty.

Also: anybody who comes at me with "you don't live in Maine so you don't get a say" can fuck all the way off. I may not get a vote, but I get a say because I live in this country too and everything a Senator does affects us all.

I'm not dead set against a generic Republican, mind you. If I ever see a good one I'll consider voting for them. I don't ever want that mindset to lead to a Democrat/liberal that's personally reprehensible (that way Republicans/conservatives have done with Trump) and I put party before country.

I do truly believe on an ideological level (as well as moral, ethical, and sometimes religious) that any Democrat is better than any Republican. I've yet to see a truly good Republican in my lifetime. John McCain was awful. Reagan was awful. Even Fetterman (🤢🤮) is better than Susan Collins et al.

Platner will vote against the GOP agenda probably 90% of the time, while Susan Collins (who Janet Mills regularly loses to in polls) votes with it > 90% of the time and there's no guarantee that Mills wouldn't immediately run to the center like most establishment Dems do.

"[..] the two spacecraft are named “Blue” and “Gold” after the devastating Internet dress color war of 2015. May the many who died finally rest in peace, and these satellites serve to honor their memory."

I have a lot of free time.

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