At this point it’s more of an overly optimistic look to our future.

Actually, you might have dodged a bullet with those tech stocks.

Translation: we fired the guy that empties the trash, it’s your job now.

Last backup was done in the nineties to tape and our last working reader was sold for parts fifteen years ago. Also, no one knows if we’re still paying Iron Mountain for the tape storage.

Money does buy you happiness. It just has diminishing returns.

So the best way to maximize happiness is to take the money from those that have maximized its effect and give it all to the poor.

It’s also one of the few ways to make money available to them that has a chance of making them enough money to live the way their grandparents did. Certainly the easiest to get into.

Next up is Y2.1K actually.

Even the oldest automatics would let you lock it to a lower gear if you needed it.

Must be nice. I can’t even tie my shoes.

The guy who literally changed the rules so he could stay in power indefinitely isn’t a dictator? Right, there is no point in continuing if you can’t agree on objective reality.

the leading interest being whatever dictator sits at the top.

This is the part that matters. This is also true for Soviet communism or really any real life communism. The instruments are different, but the song is the same.

That doesn’t change that the powers of governance and commerce were in the same hands. Changing what you call it is just semantics.

Google doesn’t cost money, but it’s not free.

Didn’t the state own all the corporations in the USSR? How would that not be state and corporate power combined?

This is where you write a companion app to load the ad in a separate instance while feeding it false camera input data and continue watching in peace.

This is what credit unions are for. If you have an account, you own a piece of it. There are no billionaire investors that don’t even use the service to ruin everything.

There is no one still alive today from the last time the republican party was trying to improve things.

It would be plastic for a very long time, but the cup wouldn’t likely survive very long. It would get ground down to plastic dust to be ingested within a few years unless it was in a particularly stable area.

It’s been essentially tried since near the beginning with AOL. Their dialup service required you to have their branded browser (customized Internet Explorer) open to stay connected. On that browser you could only connect to sites in their walled garden whitelist.

Luckily, you could just minimize their browser and open regular IE or Netscape to bypass it.

Good water pressure does a much better job than your hand.