I feel scammed.

I always bought DVDs to avoid ads and that was nice, then they made streaming more affordable and convenient.

Then they quietly dropped releasing streaming shows on physical media and now it’s more expensive and has ads.

You tricked me!

That’s already true…

I hardly ever use “lol” to mean laugh out loud. It’s also just interspersed in sentences to denote when something is not really serious lol.

“Let’s just say, she’s unlearning her conception of attraction” is the woke way of saying a girl is an easy lay.

Cars, and all the resulting infrastructure.

Ruined city structures and, to an extent, local communities. Small corner stores and tight-knit communities have vanished in favour of giant shopping malls meant to serve everyone in a huge radius.

I have an old Apple Watch and this made me wanna get rid of it.

I’ve bought into their ecosystem (mainly just because I hate every other tech giant slightly more) but they’ve really done little to impress me these past few years…

I’ve read (and don’t quote me on it) that the way it gets around those laws is it’s technically not “recording”. It’s real-time dictation with no audio recorded or transmitted anywhere…

… But even so, it really goes against the spirit of those laws.

I don’t know if I’ve read of any Apple fans who don’t think this is creepy or at the very least wildly unnecessary as a feature.

Privacy concerns aside, if you need generated summaries of your own day, I don’t know if I can relate to you as a person because wtf are you not paying attention to anything anyone says to you?

I never want pictures of me on Facebook. I simply don’t want Meta knowing what I look like.

To protect myself, I avoid having friends or attending family gatherings.

Shame they never declared War on Disease.

For anyone using macOS, Vorssaint is a lifesaver.

It has a number of “fixes” for macOS, including quit on close, clipboard access, per-app volume control, and many more.

After I passed my test, my Mum told me word for word “It’s great once you’ve got your licence, you can slip back into your bad habits.”

There is that, but I’d also argue quite a lot of people would be against this proposal because they don’t want a drivers licence really; they just don’t live in a walkable area but want to get to work and be able to shop and the licence and owning a car is just a means to an end. If you’re a competent driver, having to retake the test would be a pain in the ass and your reward effectively is “You may continue to exist in society.”

Getting the letter that you’re due for a test would be more frustrating than a jury duty summons; jury duty pays.

The elderly resent the prospect of losing their licence for exactly that reason; it puts them at the mercy of family and expensive taxis to be able to feed themselves.

In a sane world, yes we’d all recognise driving can be dangerous and tests are sensible, but in that world you wouldn’t need a car to do basic shit either.

There’s a lot of “Heal the political divide” being said to mean “meet them halfway” when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how “Heal the healthcare class divide” means “Help poor people see doctors affordably”.

Shame I can’t boycott because this was a boring product update and I wasn’t gonna buy it anyway.

I may have bought in completely to Apple’s ecosystem…. But at this point it’s more because I hate every other tech giant slightly more.

Everyone has something to hide. That’s why I’m not posting my online banking password on Facebook or letting anyone install cameras in my toilet.

I found it to be a struggle to find a non-smart TV that was decent…

… Good.

call them occasionally.

I’ll text. Take it or leave it.