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Bonus: We're now farther from the year 2000 than the year 2000 was from the launch of the Commodore 64.

Things I wish for in 2018:

* Google stops presenting Pinterest images as the first results for any image on the God Damn Internet.

Meritocracy: For the few, not the many.

1965:
Worker: $39,500
CEO: $819,000
Ratio: 1 to 20

2013:
Worker: $52,100
CEO: $15,175,000
Ratio: 1 to 295

social.coop/media/zXQFjL1wRcPl

@jakobpunkt so I went to a vip cinema last night for the first time in months and the seat was so awful and uncomfortable and it convinced me that I should let you know that I now agree with you but then during the closing credits my date pointed out the electric adjustment buttons and then it became super comfy so maybe I agree with you mostly but not fully

Millennials Are Destroying The CD-R Industry

Boost if you think trains are the best method of transit.

🚃🚋🚞🚝🚄🚅🚈🚂🚆🚇🚊🚉

R P M and yum
Have eaten all my Monday
Will eat Tuesday, too

first the Muppets take Manhattan

then they take Berlin

I on vaguely posted about this prior, but, I haven't developed since august. I've been doing a game project and am going to be doing outside work soon and I don't see myself coming back to it.

I feel like the best move would be to hand it off to another maintainer. But also it's free to fork, of course, as the source code is open.

Why are we still teaching programming like it was a new emerging technology that nobody knows anything about, and not a well explored subject with at least 50 years of solid history?

Why are the lessons like an arts and crafts course, where we just let people build something, instead of a literature course, where we read and analyze classics, and learn from the experience of others?

And why are we surprised when we discover that every generation just reinvents the mistakes of the previous one?

Internet: link me to a song that takes you back to a very specific place, a very specific time, like a moment of your life and piece of yourself have been captured inside it, frozen in amber.

Just the song. No further explanation.

youtube.com/watch?v=Hai0zxSC9-

App idea: a world clock, but instead of telling the time at a particular moment in a given time zone, it always reads 5pm, and presents the timezone where that is at the moment.

It's called "Cocktails".

The architectural decisions that help protect Mastodon from lawful state actors are the same decisions that allow for possible abuse by unlawful skunkworks.

Consuming premium aged toots that entered their oaken casks three hours ago and are just now being poured over the tinkling ice cubes of my timeline.