Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Apple has a ton of engineering experience with hinges from their laptop days, and even the old lampshade-style iMac.

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Once I've delivered them as torrents to the people of earth, I'm going out to find a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

The first thing I do when I have an FTL ship is flying out about a hundred light years and grabbing these important pieces of culture

I was a teenager who wanted to be a 1337 haxxor so I found out what warez were, and then wanted to play a bunch of games for free.

brb firing up SCURK

Did the union buster bluster buffalo the buffalo Buffalo buffalo?

It's a way to cut headcount without doing layoffs. It's usually followed one or two quarters later by an actual layoff.

I remember when commercial breaks were the time when you went to the bathroom/got snacks and then ran back and jumped over the couch to get back before the show started again.

But most ads don't work on a conscious level. They're there to make whatever is being advertised seem normal and good, like birds singing in the trees, background noise you associate with good feelings. The point isn't to get people to engage rationally. The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.

I don't think I'm going to ever buy a car made after 2020. Maybe earlier. None of the new features really appeal to me, and there are a lot of things like this that actively turn me off from wanting a new car.

If they could just give me an electric version of a 1985 VW Golf I'd be happy as a clam. But they want to put me in some lumpy, heavy, clumsy CUV with tracking technology and all the touchscreens and I don't like it.

They're boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it's not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating

I love how microchips look like really well-organized Factorio maps