Yep! I got a nice one. It’s 10+ years old now, but I got a new bulb in the box, waiting for my current bulb (which IS dying) to finally go.

Love it. It even does 3D and came with 2 pairs of glasses.

cries

I bought lifetime subscription 10+ years ago. It still updates the guide, but they stopped selling hardware.

Which is a shame. I like Tivo.

They don’t control my tivo recordings.

Which is why everyone should oppose ATSC 3.0.

With ATSC 3.0, TV stations can literally insert ads overlayed on screen at any point.

They can use your tv’s smart functions to literally track your behavior.

They can refuse to allow you to record tv stations entirely, or just kndividual shows.

They can delete shows without your consent. They can block you from watching shows. They can make OTA tv programing pay per view.

I’m not saying they ARE doing this, or are planning it, but they CAN. And if capitalism has taught me anything it’s “fuck you, pay us, and then pay us again, and fuck you again”.

See…humans are stupid. We could all be living in lush rich forests, having sex in bright sunny fields, with no cares in the world.

Instead, we all have jobs, and make ourselves slaves to them. We hand over control of all aspects of our lives to corporations.

Instead of utopia, we live in a parking lot jungle. Where the profits for paid parking are more important than affordable housing, and rent control.

And it all rolls downhill. Even television is trying its hand at enshitification. Don’t buy a smart tv. Don’t buy ATSC 3.0 anything. Tell these fuckers to fuck off!

Can confirm.

the Mona Lisa, a 522-year-old painting of an Italian woman

Damn. I remember when that was brand new, and everyone was talking about it. In modern times, I believe the kids today would call it a “sick meme”.

We didn’t use such words back then. We called it “art”.

Now you got all these yolkels hosting what they call “renaissance fairs”, but they completely missed the point of them. It wasn’t a festival. It was just a typical tuesday at the market! I like going to these renaissance fairs for the nostolgia, but they don’t actually sell usefull goods or services. Instead they set up a “gift shop”. Ugh. I just want to buy a decapitated head of a lamb, and a rack of ribs. Why do I have to go to your air conditioned big box grocery stores to do it? I want to buy it off the wooden cart of a traveling salesmen like it was INTENDED GOD DAMMIT!

turns into a bat and flys away

This explains so much! So THAT’S why I masturbate! I was addicted as a teenager, and I guess I’m going to be addicted for life.

I mean…it worked in WWII.

See, there was this guy named Hitler, who wanted to take over the world, and kill the Jews.

Then two jewish teens from Cleveland created Superman.

So Superman goes off, fights the nazis, and was on his way to Hitler’s house, to give him a lecture about why killing is bad, but Hitler heard Superman was coming. So he killed himself before Superman got there.

True story.

So that middle management can justify their existence!

How much could I buy a pizza from you for?

I feel like this comment is so generic it’s not even AI. Just a bot randomly posting pretyped comments.

Kind of. As long as you understand that people like me exist.

I ordered a big mac from McDonalds one time. I got a chicken sandwich instead.

I was sitting inside. I could easily have went back to the counter and said something.

Instead, I just went with it. Guess I’m having a chicken sandwich today!

Now, that being said, I also don’t use AI. So, I would have never noticed it being down. But hypothetically, if I tried to use AI, and it didn’t work, I’d just do something else instead.

So it won’t be the number of complaints = the number of users affected. But it does give you somewhat of a scale.

I’ve never seen this in motion…

Tamara left you to find someone who IS anti-AI.

Well I have Obama’s Bluesky. I’ll send him a message.

Look man. We’re not nominating Nicole the Fediverse chick. We’re also not nominating beans and/or corn.

Yoj can try nominating Linux, but that’s not a person and would unlikely to be considered.

Out of all the artists/bands, your image has Tessa Violet. Which is insane to me, because I can remember watching her like 15 years ago on a show called =3 with Ray William Johnson. Which was essentially a comedy show that brought you 3 viral videos, and then RWJ would try to be funny over them. Nobody watched =3 for RWJ, and nobody watched Americas Funniest Home Videos for Bob Sagat. We watched both shows for the same reason. To watch idiots get hit in the nuts.

Then one episode, a 15 year old Tessa Violet, then known as Meekakitty, shows up and starts the episode by saying “Betcha didn’t think you’d see ME here!”

And I’m like “BITCH I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!”

But then RWJ tried making music, and she was in his videos. Then she started making music. And I never heard from either of them again because both of their music is terrible.

Tessa is like accoustic guitars, and whiney crying lyrics. And RWJ, despite being close to 25 at the time wrote novelty comedy songs all based around the idea of having sex with your mom. As if written for an exclusively 14 year old boy audience.

Now I see this, and I’m like “eh? She’s STILL making music???”

I thought Hulk Hogan was dead…

Ok…hear me out. We all join ICE, but then we BARELY do our jobs. And we agree to do whatever they say. Then we don’t do it. We clog up the system from the inside with insubordination. But we do it in a way that makes them think we’re trying to follow orders, and are just really really stupid.

“Ok Johnson, shoot the brown guy!”

shoots 15 feet above the brown guy into a brick wall behind him

“YEAH!!! I DID IT!!!”

“NO YOU DIDN’T!!! HE’S GETTING AWAY!!!”

“DON’T YELL AT ME MISTER MAN!!! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? I’M ICE!!!”

“We’re all ICE…and he got away!”

“Is that good?”

“NO THAT’S NOT GOOD!!!”

“Did he win the race?”

“What race???”

“Uhhhhh…Formula 1?”

“What?”

“Vroom vroom!!!”

“What is wrong with you???”

“My father used to punish me severely.”

We just gotta act like idiots who mean well in their racist system, but keep screwing up.

But here’s the main thing…we DON’T kill people. Even if they fire us in 2 weeks, we will have clogged up their little system, drained their budget, and made the whole thing a mess.

What this whole thing has taught me is that there is a market among billionaires for someone to peddle enslaved kids.

Now epstein is gone, and has been for years, but that demand doesn’t just die. I don’t have proof, but there is zero doubt in my mind that epstein is not a one and done. There’s either another epstein, or more likely a dozen smaller epsteins out there.

There’s a part of me that thinks all these ICE abducting kids is being done at trumps order, specifically as a means to replace epstein.