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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin7mc5Feso

“Stick with the prod.”

…i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games…

…before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don’t think anything i played in the seventies counts…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJvgESR920

…but you do need to be rich-enough to afford time not spent preparing for work, working, nor recovering from work…

shyeeah. right.

…lap dog’s going to do whatever his handler commands…

…you should mock anyone who links to xitter; it only succeeds on the basis of their patronage…

…i get his correspondence via email…

…not super-obscure in its day but very much a product of the mid-eighties, i doubt many folks are familiar with it fourty years later: michael crichton, tom selleck, gene simmons, peak kirstie alley…

(set in the near future-shock of 1991!)

…“baby steps” they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course…

sixteen.
f*cking.
years.

…when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i’m not talking about vacuous platitudes, i’m talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..

…the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that’s the fundamental point of democracy…

…the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement…

…was there one before?..

…you don’t win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992…

…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…

…sarcasm: quotes always imply sarcasm…

…i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free…

…windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it’s a pretty solid OS and i’d be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support…