Here's one for you: "an apron" used to be "a napron".

Linguists call this sort of change Rebracketing

It's a file.

It's a big ask, but Empathy.

My GF is a pool cleaner and once got written up for sending a customer a picture of dead pigeons that were in their yard.

The customer called the office screaming that she sent the pictures "to be mean."

Turns out these people had pest control out on their property to "remove" all the frogs because the frogs were "keeping them awake at night", and the birds took the bait instead.

Yes, these folks were filthy rich and entitled.

If a lack of privacy is like being nude in public, Apple is an expensive bouncer at an expensive club where you take your clothes off for free in front of people who pay apple a cover charge, because Apple promised them you have the biggest tits.

It's kinda flattering, but is it really privacy?

This is some hobbit-level shit.

"You don't have allergies Philby, you're just ugly!"

Closed-source software is inherently predatory.

It doesn't matter if you can read the code or not, the only options that respect your freedom are open source.

Honey this is an Applebee's, shit wherever you want.

https://i.imgur.com/fRO3g2o.jpeg

My take-away, here, is that 8 years ago he could actually form a sentence.

"Works like email. Like how nobody owns email."

Most Hispanic people are highly balkanized and consider themselves to be "the good hispanics".

They are ripe to adopt fascism because their identity was forged by a system of Spanish-Catholic authoritarianism.

Fine dining is so weird.

Tom represents the incomplete knowledge of mankind and our pre-modern inability to firmly grasp the natural world we live in (and to some extent our continued struggle).

The fantasy world of Middle-Earth is in most ways supernatural to our own. So how much more incomplete would our understanding and knowledge of it been?

Tolkien was a professor of language and mythology and steeped in the ancient epics of the Anglo-saxons and Norse cultures. His career was putting together what these people knew and how they saw the world, but also what they couldn't understand and how they explained their ignorance.

Others here are hinting at what Tom is, but not why he is. He's a manifestation of ignorance. That's why pinning him down is so tricky. It's like pointing at a shadow with a flashlight.

1. The growth of online advertising revenue slowed in 2022 for the first time since 2009.It still grew, just slower.

2. Interest rates went up.

3. With the collapse of crypto and Silicon Valley Bank (which was overleveraged in crypto), VC money isn't as free flowing. There really wasn't that much institutional money in crypto, but it's still a destablizing force and has had a ripple effect.

4. AI is making more people aware of bots. This is related to point #1. A huge, unknown percentage of of FAANG revenue is selling online ads to bots instead of real eyeballs and once the word gets out, ad revenue will slow even more for any service depending on online ads (eg reddit).

"I'm constantly haunting myself" is one description of ADHD

Are the Arab nations that expelled the Jews in the 40s and told them to go to Israel, going to give them their homes and citizenship back?

Didn't think so.

Copyright on software should be much shorter than other media.

I have a headlamp that's basically just a metal case wrapped around an 18650 cell and it is quite insane.