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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  dude, we are earth-1... ...talking about earth-2 ("worlds of wonder 1995 edition") on that better timeline nasty, filthy cash is being squeezed out simply by way of printing an ever shrinking amount of replacement bills 'n coins but that would...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...finely etched upon goldleaf ribbon tape for indefinitely long storage? not magnetic but etched... will survive anything short of blowtorching......
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  my thanks... ROFLing "$11T surplus" <== LOL!...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  so... seemingly inadvertent (but by sly design) centralized identification profiles leading to federal level ID cards for all Americans whether they like it or not with not only a social security number assigned at birth but also a lifetime phone...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  "video unavailable" fracking youtube censorship...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  "We are the Clippy Collective. Lower your firewalls and surrender your laptops. We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own. Your mocha-espresso foamers will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  hmmm... Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: First Contact so... Clippy gets infested by the Borg... or maybe more horrid... the Borg get taken over by Clippy and thus Bill Gates become the Borg Queen... there was a magazine cover...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  OVERLOOKED...! war... or rather... reporting upon combat and conflict... which confrontations would not have happened over on that other timeline? from our version of history... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990%E2%80%932002 semi-random selection ==> Nepalese Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_Civil_War what effect would alternative tech have upon...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...DirecTV's abortive efforts at serving up the web you sent a request via narrow pipe landlines (basic modem or crippled rate ISDN) and two seconds later your computer when linked to the dish scooped out a single specific bucket of...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...and now I need to go sandpapering my brain or otherwise drown that fracking paperclip with multiple liters of vodka how about we be mashing up AI, bitchain, burning down the ecology with clippy... "I see you're trying to spawn...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  like many victims of PowerPointless, there was the dream that one or another federal government agencies would declare it as a workplace hazard and deem its usage to never exceed more than 15 minutes (which is about 5 slides) per...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  you really should not have left us room to roam thru the collective unfulfilled realms of lost tech such as was brooded upon in "The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson... but not 1930s worlds of wonder but 1990s blend of...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  hmmm... apparently things are not nearly as awful as ought they be... yet another ongoing instance of ignore-it-and-it-will-go-away political policymaking "New Delhi chokes as trash mountain fire spreads hazardous fumes" https://lite.cnn.com/2024/04/23/india/ghazipur-delhi-landfill-fire-intl-hnk/index.html not quite Yellowstone mega-uber-super-duper-volcano but still a volcanic eruption...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  for those non-Americans uneasily curious about Trump's trial, first day with opening statements, et al, here's free podcast/audio from MSNBC (spoiler = leans left and center-ish on facts) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0K6AKBItHT8GAc1jR2SA6Z ...and tomorrow I promise to resume hair splitting about "whatever" you-all...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  you noticed that, eh? increasing numbers of apartment buildings in bigger cities promising to filter out the under-50s demographic so solvent oldsters (top 5% in wealth) need never deal with complaints from younger folk about cluelessness by the over-50s...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  SUGGEST: advise her to start keeping a complete archive of = everything = she reads... off site and encrypted... make that, multiple copies ad at least one set in the hands of someone untraceable to her... and no I am...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  ...humor? hmmm... see my post at 935 Q: how about we crowdsource snarky headlines set in 2070 of refugees from Mexico (or drought ravaged central America or drowned Caribbean Basin) invading the USA...? ...and all those underpopulated urban centers get...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  ...irony of such stories being that whilst there are ever more oldsters living into tottering decrepitude... shortfall of younger adults... we look to Japan with unease, whilst Japan looks to South Korea with horror as being the ultimate nightmarish outcome...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  ...and retro-fits and tweaks and advance planning for "ageing-in-place" not just grab bars in showers and by toilets but also tweaks to staircases which could include ripping out the whole damn thing to install shorter steps... here in US standard...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  some places are trying to add provision that on larger lots there could be either a "widowed mother-in-law" mini-house or detached garage with second floor "boomerang children apartment" long term, the intent is for late-in-day tweaks to zoning to turn...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  might I recommend... I don't know if accessible outside USA... newly stumbled over free streaming... older Star Trek series... weird shit from 1970s... ancient crud of 1960s otherwise forgotten... tubitv.com pluto.tv example: slightly campy, very dark version of DC Comics......
• Commented on Announcement time!
  ...as if, should they ignore the obvious facts, then "climate change" will get so ashamed of being ghosted by the ruling elites it will disappear......
• Commented on Announcement time!
  "A little over a year after it opened, the Trump Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy and Trump's two other Atlantic City casinos followed suit the next year." https://archive.ph/WQBNl as good a businessman as he is as a national leader...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  every time there's lateral construction upon Manhattan Island, everyone within a five block radius braces for self-effects... not least severing data cables, water pipes, electrical cables, sewage pipes and trickles of god-only-knows-what-is-that-green-grey-slime nor wat it had been quietly gnawing upon...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  try pasting known links into ==> https://archive.ph/ to see if it was saved there... also internet archive's "wayback machine" ==> https://waybacck-api.archive.org/...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I suggest you get one of those misting fans... that for sure I'm getting... along with considering if it is reliable product, those gel pads that you refrigerate for a couple hours then lay atop at night... just not only...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  try this ==> https://archive.ph/63q4r...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  there's a hotel positioned over GCS which when it undergoing upgrades, one of the arguments was the unappealing appearance of subway grates on sidewalks outside the building... there'd been those who tried to push for modifications to the hotel to...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  while I want you to be right in your evaluation there is still 200 days till the election and it is frankly a shitstorm... gonna be lots 'n lots of dirty tricks at the very last minute others have perspectives...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  hopefully, after he loses the election, Trump will no longer live rent free inside my head... if he goes to prison that's sweet, sweet icing upon the cake... but this? has gotta be da cherry upon the humiliation cake for...