Is this accelerationism?

America needs less polyworking and more polytwerking!

– Pete Bootyjudge

If this is a bit,

If this is not a bit,

STAY IN LINE, OR ELSE

Vladimir Putin Uncle Phil

Maybe he’s born with it. Maybe it’s German Sudafed.

sam@localhost:~$: crem

Permission denied.

sam@localhost:~$: sudocrem

We will also accept Naruto-running away from the Secret Service.

Then it’s just twenty minutes of

Did they already run out of retirees and nursing home residents?

I spent most of junior high as a stinky pariah on account of refusing to subject myself to showering in the school locker room. By the time I hit high school, I was able to game the class registration system such that I stacked a bunch of AP classes and even a handful of off-site college courses and got out of taking PE for two years. This meant I had to take the sophomore and junior PE classes during my senior year, though. At least by that point most of the other kids were too afraid to mess with me. I think that doing sophomore PE as a senior was the only time in my life when I’ve ever been like 3 or 4 inches taller than most of the people around me.

The funniest part of all of that was that a bunch of the sophomores had been speculating as to why this sasquatch was in the class with them, assuming that I had flunked out twice and had to re-take it in order to graduate. It blew their minds when I explained that I’d exhausted the school district’s available coursework for computer programming, so they were paying for me to attend night classes at a local university.

Meanwhile, me in 19XX: I LOVE PROGRAMMING! C++ IS SO AWESOME! CLASS AND INTERFACE HIERARCHICAL TYPE RELATIONSHIPS AND POLYMORPHIC METHODS ARE AMAZING PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS AND I CAN’T WAIT TO USE THEM IN THE REAL WORLD!!!

Me in 2024: Please kill me. I never want to see another [VENDOR/PLATFORM NAME REDACTED] project ever again, and this makes me despise the entire tech industry at large because everyone around me who operates in a decision-making capacity – but does no actual development – insists that this is the Best Thing Ever because the Gartner Magick Heptahedron told them so. I envy the dead.

I want to get off Jimmy Doolittle’s wild ride.

And retired Colorado Avalanche hockey player Joe Sakic. lmao

This is your daily reminder that the “S” in “IOT” stands for “Security.”

Nuclear? I hardly know 'er HAR HAR HAR

It wasn’t exactly the cool Russia back then, either 🍕🛖

Gen Xers reading this thread:

I was surprised to see that the guys behind the Landtone klone kits (those Amazon build-your-own-klone deals) were selling finished pedals – that was who I got mine from.

There’s also this other brand, Ginean, who was apparently Harmon Group’s overseas builder for various DOD pedals, and they have dirt-cheap versions of the Gonkulator, Carcosa fuzz, and a couple of other DOD drive pedals from before the CorTek buyout. The circuit boards, control layouts, and pedal cases are identical, just with different paint jobs/branding and no DOD stamp on the back plate. Oh, and a weird bevel around the top of the pedal case. But yeah, $35 USD Gonkulator “clone.” Hard to go wrong with that, other than the fact that it’s a damn Gonkulator and its mere existence is an affront to, uh, something that doesn’t Gonk very well.