Life truly imitates art 😭

27 years later: "I told you, man!"

I remember before Snowden's whistle-blowing people online assumed it was crazy to think the government would want to spy on citizens personal internet communications, too. Online privacy was tinfoil hat stuff for people who didn't know better.

I've encountered these in the wild and my office has them installed. They're distributed with SIM cards installed, they don't join the WiFi. Fun fact

guard sniffs air

"Wait a minute! Did someone add grapefruit again?? I must inspect immediately!"

I live in the year 2026, I'm pretty sure, and this still made so little sense to me, that I assumed they meant "hacking a water fountain" as in hitting it with an axe.

This is how I feel with autonomous combat drones. I wrote those up in ~2000ish, I forget exactly when.