Smartphones are the most useful thing ever day-to-day… So I want to keep those, like keep all the text and call and email stuff, keep the games I guess, but somehow also go back to the days when the Internet was something to peruse for an hour or so a day on the computer.

There’s a lot of “Heal the political divide” being said to mean “meet them halfway” when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how “Heal the healthcare class divide” means “Help poor people see doctors affordably”.

I found it to be a struggle to find a non-smart TV that was decent…

… Good.

call them occasionally.

I’ll text. Take it or leave it.

… Well great, now I have to check whether my television has a goddamn microphone for some reason. I didn’t think to check because it’s a television.

Never connected it to the Wifi though.

I got rid of my home deep fryer for health reasons. It is dangerously easy, cheap, and quick to make quality fries…

Feels nicer to believe it’s all because of some nefarious pranksters than accept nature is random and cruel and viruses really can arise at any time and just tear down your world. If it’s all fake, there’s a tangible enemy and someone to blame.

At least the images clogging your search results were real images, not simulacrum…

What do you mean? All that stuff experienced shortages.

A healthy conspiracist might notice that these memes got disseminated like mad during COVID, lest the masses get socialism-curious.

COVID should have provided the basis for the biggest labour movement in history. Instead the biggest protest in Australian history was not in aid of higher pay, extending guaranteed sick leave, more essential services, expanding healthcare and socialising all medicine, or even stopping climate change; it was in aid of ending lockdowns.

Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it’s also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose…

Also, I miss Pinterest.

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I’ve lived with hardcore capital-G Gamers.

Simply not buying the game is never an option. May as well be trying to get smokers to boycott tobacco companies until they make their product cheaper. Good luck on holding out.

Watching ‘The Mummy’ on streaming the other day… Unless subtitles were switched on, the translation when anyone spoke Egyptian wasn’t used. It also weirdly removed location title cards, like when there’s an establishing shot and text ‘Cairo, 3 months later’ or something.