“Yeah, but at least we can cut our losses and sell the planet”

As it turned out, this would not happen.

Ah, I had blockbuster as a kid in a post 9/11 world.

It’s like how people thought Air Bending was the weakest bending in Avatar, and then we watched a man suck the air out of someone’s lungs.

Do not mistake the act of reservation as weakness.

“There is nothing more permanent than a Temporary measurement in government.”

This seals it. Windows 10 will doom windows and Linux will rise.

Oh no. It’s happening again.

If “big tech” can collapse, and it does. It will leave a power-void.

Will the fediverse win? It needs to if we have any chance at democratizing the internet.

Yoinky Spelunky

I know you’re being sarcastic but it really does look like this.

Teaching kids to accept getting bullied and beaten, without retaliation or justice.

Teaching kids to mindlessly accept all authority.

This is 100% a slave generating structure.

And if you’re upset about it, or don’t behave 100% correctly, you will be arrested and imprisoned.

Power Users: Block all emails that aren’t Gmail or Outlook!

Also Power Users: Why are Google and Microsoft monopolies!?

Ah yes, that classic “freedom of speech” they’re always yelling about.

The in-fighting continues.

No one younger than 40 will be able to afford a house, wages keep dropping, the world looks like it’s about to explode and a good half of us were raised on repetitious dopamine rushes.

Must be the allure of avocado toast.

I’m a Debian user these days.

Reminder: these are the “family values” they believe in.

If you can’t own digital copies since they’re not property, then piracy isn’t theft.

Make them write an essay about why they’re a good person deserving of love.

But the self-checkout cameras sure did.

Good.

The War on Christmas is real.

And I’m tired of pretending we started it.

They struck first. Invading Thanksgiving and New Years. But like all memorable wars they started within their own borders.

Conquering the lesser known holidays in their ranks. As well as the weekends. Then they expanded into November and January. Then into February and October.

The war continued until they had conquered Halloween, Labor Day, and it had gone so far that they had conquered July. “Christmas in July” they said.

11 months of Christmas. They had almost taken it all. Then, just as all hope was lost, just as it been considered a lost cause. They stopped.

Christmas stagnated. For 60 long years we waited.

Enduring losses and louder (and earlier) Christmas carols. Planting their lights and decorations unto our territories. Creating propaganda and even launching pressure campaigns.

Labeled Humbugs, Grinches and worse for daring to stand against Christmas.

But slowly as the songs got older, and the propaganda aged. Fewer and Fewer dared to pressure those who stood against Christmas.

We took our months back. We didn’t even know It, but we had just awoken a sleeping monster.

As we regained July and September, we slowly took back the early months, may, April, march…

We managed to start encompassing the holiday season. That’s when it began. The War on Christmas, or so those on the side of Christmas claim. But we know better.

Happy Holidays.