Did we all live the same childhood?

It's sort of remarkable that you can enter at New York Harbor and come out at New Orleans without ever leaving the water or touching the Atlantic.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the room at Google where the discussions are being had as to what to label the lake. If I'm to be charitable, I'd assume they've renamed it because they're consistently following an internal rule which says they use geographic names from the GNIS, which was updated by the executive order, and they haven't yet decided whether they should make an exception in this case. Every nonsensical rename in the GNIS weakens its credibility as an accurate database. I'm sure the debates are interesting. We don't actually know if this is Google "bending the knee" or sticking with the rename for some other more technical reason.

In that case, hunt down Immortan Joe and pay him to do it. He and his goons have the experience for this sort of thing.

I stopped paying attention halfway through his first term. It was like a TV show you stop watching because you began to understand the formula of an episode.

You're getting scammed. You should tariff the grocery store. Demand that the total on the bill increase by 50% and that that increase be paid back to you. That should teach 'em.

I wanted to watch Well-Founded Fear (2000) on immigration in the US. As far as I can tell, you can only get it by purchase on Vimeo. $12 to rent. $150 to buy. It's too obscure to have a torrent.

The thing with piracy is there are always so many duplicates. For every piece of media, there may be a hundred different torrents for it with varying popularity. People might be obtaining Future Boy Conan from a torrent different from the one you're seeding.

Approve too many, you get fired.

Something you might like: https://bootstrappable.org/

What's the name of that game in which the player's task is to approve people crossing the border into or out of the Soviet Union (or was it East Germany?)? Someone needs to do that except you're a medical director deciding whether to approve or deny someone's claim.

Edit: I'm thinking of Papers, Please.

Most users don't care about any of the spying. I'd expect a competitor of similar size to do the same. If there's any improvement competition could bring, it would be for the creators, giving them a larger slice of the ad revenue that otherwise goes to the owners of the platform. I guess that would mean better quality videos for users. Though, I don't think allowing anyone to make boatloads of money by getting millions of people to sit around for hours and hours watching videos has been a positive for humanity. Incentivizing creators with more money will just make this worse.