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"Earth First" is an interesting and compelling explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

yes but they all go bbbbuuuuuurrrrrtttt

Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple's standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

There's only one company that makes microwaves.

The electronics are so particular that creating more than one supply chain doesn't make sense.

Every brand just whitelables microwaves assembled by Midea

The first conspiracy was Watergate.

After Watergate, Late night FM (new at the time) programming filled with a bunch of "Well what else is the government hiding from us?"

Someone eventually proclaimed that aliens were covered up at the Roswell Incident, which everyone had forgotten about after 20 years.

How many languages do you speak?

AI is either a solution in search of a problem,

or it's the next scheme designed to gobble up as much VC money as possible and boost NVIDIA stock value, now that the Cryptocurrency bubble has passed.

8 was at least an attempt to try to make things better for home users and get away from win32 cruff.

Like or hate the exact approach they took, you have to admire the spirit.

10 and 11 has been Microsoft saying "fuck em. They won't ever be happy steal everything you can while they're still here."

"TikTok is influencing you politically"

So you'll shut down Fox News, right?

That's fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

Zuck invented the feed.

Chest freezers