But definitely call her that :-)

Don’t call her that!

Ruin!

Here is a wiki source (insert error bars here) discussion of his stance on his work being officially licensed. He thought that use of his work outside of a comic strip would cheapen the value of the strip itself. This was frusterating as a child (who wouldn’t want a fucking Hobbes plushy) but now later I can see that it was at the very least a very defensible choice. Compare how people feel about C&H vs something that was commercialized to death like Garfield. Anyway, hope it’s useful.

I mean we had literally 9 kings to provide strong leadership. MAGA!

SDA? I used to be one of those😂

Way to make it to the memes guys! At least relevant somewhere!

Just doing a wellness check. Did you make it?

#1 on my funeral mix. All you fuckers are gonna WEEP at my funeral.

Just looked it up, looks like it’s still Amazon. Could be missing something though.

Always an upvote for Doom OST

Oh I see. Yeah that’s cool. I’ve seen several posts around the fediverse that take a real tsk tsk signal user kind of tone, So I responded to yours kind of defensively. As a person with middle of the road tech knowledge I also curious if how I think about it stands up to scrutiny (because people will tell me!). Didn’t mean to distract from the intent. Thanks for posting this in any case.

For me using signal wasn’t about becoming Jason Bourne, it was about changing the threat model. I don’t have any dilusions of grandeur that I can’t be owned if I’m targeted, but you know what? My calls and texts aren’t stored with my phone company with a direct link to the Government and advertisers. That may be low hanging fruit, but that’s dealing with most of the issues the average user is going to run into. I’d suggust that the step from SMS to Signal is of greater benifit to a normal user than from signal to something more advanced. And, fwiw it’s open sourced and audited, which gives me more confidence than something like imessage or WhatsApp, despite similarities im encryption schemes.

Seriously though. They fucking called it, unironically, the metaverse. That’s a coined ass phrase. Distopian from the beginning. Weird choice on Meta’s part haha.

Good idea! Thanks for the recommendation.

Snowcrash: pleasantly surprised by the quality of the world building, which I love.

Is that Alan Tudyk?