Panic! Run around with head on fire! PANIC! DO IT! OBEY!!!

People are tired of hearing this same retread shit since the 70's.

I know I am.

Your downmods sexually arouse me. C'mon, gimmie that -1 Flamebait, you know you want to, like the fucking Pavlovian dogs you tree-fuckers are ! Do it, I need my 2 Minutes Hate!

You must be in Europe, yes?

Meanwhile, here in South Florida, we're having a cooler -- by a few deg F* -- summer than we have in the past 3 or so years. Much more rain, too -- back to normal, it seems. Past few years were very dry for us.

What is going on with you isn't what's going on everywhere.

People using normal comes-and-goes of the weather to frighten others into toeing their line are despicable. Not saying you are, but be mindful of that when you consume all the data on it.

I know, and that's the crux of my sarcastic reply. Oh woe is they who don't own 100% of the world smartphone market, that they can't get the US, too.

The World Is Not Enough. See, any reasonable person would indeed say "fuck that shit, they got plenty already."

Expect no sympathy here for Android. They already own the majority of the market worldwide. So what if they don't have all of it?

This will hold as much water as Titanic did. Android makers are whining when they already own the biggest slice of the pie?

'pal carajo con esa mierda.

No. Not "worked in the office just fine"

Bullshit. They suffered quietly. Not just the visibly disabled, the wheelhchair-bound that suffered.

Those who loathe crowds suffered. Those who loathed the daily commute suffered. Those who get home with their nerves in tatters after a day of bullshit suffered.

COVID's utter disruption showed worker and boss alike what can be done remotely. It exposed the modern office for the useless sham it is in the interconnected era.

To those who keep prattling on about RTO and how it's necessary: fuck you.

I'm not going back. You'll have to plug my casket into the network before I go back. I'd rather be dead than go back to a stupid office 5 times a week.

* laughs in dialog *

Nah.. it'll be the other team that does this.

You know, the one that had a reanimated cadaver "sign" paperwork he had no idea he was signing.

The one that lost to a convicted felon.

The one that hid a cancer diagnosis for so long it's bloody obvious he had it before 2020..

You know, that team. The one that aligns with the monsters throwing incendiary devices at people out during a peaceable assembly.

You people project so hard, we see through you -- everything you accuse our side of, you are actively doing.

The last four years are a fucking disgrace to the world. Biden, Jill Biden, Harris, et al should be tried, and shot, as traitors.

No, I did a cartoon double take while eating dinner while reading this.

Billions. Didn't know there was that much crap in the world to sell.

I see what you did there..

Wait wait wait.. wait..

Lemme get this straight -- Microsoft abandons year-based verison numbers like 2 decades ago, and then Apple starts calling things Pro and Max.

10 years later Dell starts doing the same with their hardware. Pro this and Pro Max that.

And now *Apple* is going to the long-defunct year version number?

We're definitely in 2025 B or something. I think the timeline diverged in 2008. Someone got the time car in 2008, went to some other year, and made it so 2025 would be .. this.

Nothing makes sense anymore. Up is down, left is right, good is bad, bad is good, truth is lie, lie is truth, and now we have iOS 26.

I'm a bit tired of living my life at several WTF's per hour.

This, right here, is how we end up with Dr. Lexus.

Watch Idiocracy if you don't know who Dr. Lexus is.

I'm Sorry, Dave.. I can't do that.

I'm not joking. Kill the penny. I was usaf and did overseas for a bit, 3 years in England and a combined year in Italy and France, and AAFES (our store/supermarket/consessionaires) dealt in 0 or 5, no pennies. Too much $ to ship 'em over there.

And for me, on a personal level, the penny hasn't felt right or sounded right since 1982. That was the last year of the copper penny. Ever after you get a zinc slug with the thinnest veneer of copper. Sounds and feels like Monopoly money.

Kill it already. Serves no purpose.

So much for all that "saved energy" from LEDs. Something else came along to eat all that "saved energy."

And my local util wants to raise rates. Fuck them.

One gets the sense the entire industry will sink.

Reboots, rehashes and regurgitation of the old cannot keep the industry afloat. And, there seems to be little tolerance from the viewing public for what currently passes as "the new."

The extreme balkanization of the streaming space is also a gaping hole in the ship's hull.

I expect in the end, it's going to be WB on one side, and Disney on the other, and those two will own everyone else.