Sounds healthier than Dick Trickle.

Toxic shitheadedness is insisting on that victim blaming phraseology.

Apparently it’s not a job I would trust to the 1950’s.

Why would CP/M have a dog in the fight? They were a competitor and, if I understand my history right, the wrong horse.

And By the PC-DOS guys, you mean IBM?

They do get crusty though.

I never like trademarking sounds. Harley-Davidson tried to trademark their exhaust note once, as if anyone else wants to make engines as bad as theirs. But you shouldn’t get to trademark “generic white chick voice.”

Pilot here: in a weird way, a thousand feet is a unit. “Five thousand, Five hundred feet” is processed kind of like 5.5 altitudes. Bonus: traffic patterns are typically flown at 1000 feet AGL, so 1.0 altitudes, so pilots see that distance a lot.

Are you sure? Aren’t they Bri’ish, so they’d be gallons, but weird slightly small gallons?

No you see, everyone else in the world exclusively describes the world in accurate SI units, only Americans are dumbfuck enough to measure things in bullets per cheeseburger. Nobody else in the entire world will casually say “it’s the size of a medium dog” because America bad.

A maGical briDge of hoPe, and wonDer…

ChaaaaaaRlieeeeeee…ChaaaaaaaaRlieeeee…We’re on a bridge, Chaaaaaarlieeee…

I have a money market account at a credit union…?

So it’s Stadia, again?

I’m a mid-millennial, born in the late 80’s. I’ve seen all of the 90’s.

If I was going into temporal witness protection, going back in time to keep me safe from the mob I ratted out…would I want to live in 1995?

2005 is an easier sell. I graduated high school that year, and a LOT changed in those ten years. Would I want to go back to 1995?

Nnnnnn…that line “I say ‘your civilization’ because when we started thinking for you it became ‘our civilization’ which is really what this is all about” hits different in 2026. In 1999 it came across as generic movie villain drivel, now it’s headline news.

Proof of humanity on Tinder. That’ll be the day.

…that’s why she uses clam shells.

The most perfectly cast part in all of cinema.

To paraphrase Tim Curry, communism and capitalism are both red herrings.

Oh that big punch up between the Soviet Union and the United States, decadent capitalism vs brutalist communism. Who won? According to the scoreboard as of 2026: Israel.

The catch phrase I’ve always heard about communism is “the people own the means of production.” Has that ever been true in practice? Did Soviet citizens own any piece of the means of production? Did anything resembling “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” ever once happen under the hammer and sickle? Or was that the false narrative the idiot asshole in charge used to cow the unwashed masses?

Similar questions could be asked of my fellow capitalist Americans. Capitalism is allegedly about the free market, supply and demand, if there is a demand someone will provide a supply, probably multiple someones, competitors will compete, those who do it faster, cheaper or better will succeed until someone else does it even fasterer, cheaperer and betterer repeat until someone else comes along with a completely different idea, welcome to the infinite cycle of meritocracy where the cream rises to the top. How’s that working out? Some substance has risen to the top, not sure it’s cream.

A common problem I see between the Soviet Union and the United States: Weak systems for preventing psychotic despots from ruining it all.

Further expanding on this: My understanding of the Soviet Union: Something something the Bolsheviks, something something communist revolution, They just about have an election, that Lenin overthrows because it isn’t going his way. Lenin is King Shit Of Turd Mountain until his death, then the dumb guy from the ghetto he kept around because he’s good at hurting people, Josef “probably worse than Hitler” Stalin takes the throne. The entire run of the Soviet Union is essentially a dictatorship with a command economy and remains thoroughly miserable.

The United States, meanwhile, has gone through phases. Tides have ebbed and flowed, robber barons have come and gone, consumer protection laws have come and gone. Times when a very few, very rich men have been mostly miserable for most people; times when those assholes get knocked down a peg and the common man has a chance to make a decent living get better.

The problem is a few ultimately rich assholes in charge.

I can list at least one.

Can’t think of a communist democracy, though.