PhillyMJS

In the US we’re getting shitty Ring doorbells that will use AI to help hunt and kill us for noting being pro-fascism. In China they’re getting this.

It looks like a still from a Robot Chicken episode, and I am heartbroken to learn that it’s not.

David Carradine as the character Frankenstein, from Death Race 2000 (1975).

👏👏👏

Another travesty along with not breaking up Microsoft, and letting Nintendo give out coupons to ensure wronged customers had to give more money to Nintendo.

Quick, someone sell Cuba some missiles that can reach Mar a Lago.

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They’ll be dead almost as quickly as those of us stuck on the surface— the bunker security/support staff will take over and kill them pretty quickly once law and order is just a memory.

Oh, this one's a classic:

One shoe, two shoe,
Stop blowing up brown children with my fucking healthcare money, you murderous ghouls.

I do not like it in a dump.
I do not like it by a trump.
I do not like it over there.
I do not like it anywhere.

I was enjoying not hearing anything about this piece of shit for quite a while, sorry to see he crawled back out from under his rock.

Lang will keep doing this shit until he leaves one of these protests in an ambulance or coroner’s wagon.

It would be very nice to wake up without wondering what fresh hell awaits, and then reaching for my phone in hopes of reading the BBO.

That billionaires’ reactions to Luigi were to just beef up their personal security details should tell you that they will resist being fairly taxed until we aerate them with pitchforks and just take everything.

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How that’s working out for them:

I'm embarrassed and horrified to be an American right now.

🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷

The whole thing was a cliched, paint-by-numbers story. The visuals were absolutely stunning, though. I saw it in IMAX 3D, and the only thing I remember about it was reflexively raising my arm to swat at a bug that was flying too close to me in one scene-- and then facepalming at the realization.

Still from Terminator 2 of the Terminator's perspective while driving at night with no vehicle lights on but its image enhancement capability enabled.

I also have to wear sunglasses even on cloudy days. On the plus side, I have really good vision in very low light. Before the advent of retina-scorching LED/HID headlights, my night-driving abilities were up there with a Terminator.

I dunno about “everything,” but Goldwater was certainly right about it being a real problem if the Bible-thumpers seized control of the Republican Party.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

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The currency for that bet should’ve been bottlecaps.

Jason Statham Destroys Call Centre | The Beekeeper (2023) | Movie Clip 4K YouTube video by VVS Films

Don’t sneak in, go in like Statham destroying the scammer call center in The Beekeeper.

Welp.

And looking at the unqualified goofballs they’re letting fast-track experimental nuclear reactors, we’re on track for another Three Mile Island, too.

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Ah, Testament, a nice, lighthearted way to head into the weekend.

You don’t have to use AI. You don’t have to bet on sports. You don’t have to invest in crypto.

Wal-Mart pulls T-shirts with Nazi skull logo Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is pulling a skull-and-crossbones T-shirt from its shelves after a Maryland blogger complained that the image was identical to a Nazi SS emblem from World War II.

Yes, because I remember 20 years ago when there was a controversy over Wal-Mart selling t-shirts with the totenkopf on them. And then last summer a pizzeria at the New Jersey shore had totenkopf stickers on a wall where customers could see it.

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published

1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series

1997 - BBC remake

2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added

2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap

2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

I have a *huge* stack of bookmarks from when they'd drop one in the box with every order. A couple free magnets with quotes from/about books on them are still on my fridge, too.

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I didn't keep my account there very long once AOL came on the scene. After a while I switched to AT&T WorldNet dialup until Comcast started offering cable internet in my neighborhood.

I recently found an old piece of memo cube paper with my CompuServe user ID on it: 102537,2314.

Always thought it was weird that they stuck a comma in those.

I remember Usenet before Eternal September.
I ran auctions in a newsgroup before eBay existed.
My Amazon account turns 30 in June.