JWBananas

Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

Nickelback

in “Russia”

See also: John Oliver’s take from 6 years ago

https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?si=YHabkkb1NZ8aGROS

Polishing up your resume and LinkedIn?

Are you okay?

Fighter pilot reflexes

Agreed. See also: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, etc.

We have a bad habit of gliding down the slippery slope.

We tried that once. It didn’t go so well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

They did pretty well with Inside Out as well. Bing Bong wasn’t even in any of the promotional materials at all.

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They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

More like SudoExW

Is that… ICQ? Why?

A plate

Mass is mass

Hot Tub Time Machine

Michael Sullivan (of “delete the wife” fame) says it in Lower Decks 4x01. And a Betazoid gift box says it again in 4x03 (after similarly living an entire fabricated lifetime in a moment).

I miss my wife!