They meant fish tank.

https://archive.org/details/SpyMagazine/Spy Magazine 1986-1998/1986/1986-10-OCT/mode/2up

In the 1980s, Trump always made Spy magazine’s “Top 10 Worst People, Places or Things” list. His one “mitigating factor” was always “at least he’s not in politics”.

Huh, interesting to know. Ninth grade me didn’t give a shit about things like that.

The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability

The first computer I ever used (not counting punch cards or the VIC-20) was an Apple IIe, and I can confidently say that color was green. Later versions of the Apple II had full color, but that wasn’t “innovation” by Steve Jobs, it was just the technology for it becoming affordable.

OTOH trump may want to eliminate the competition.

they’d say hours were normal but they might need extra hours during “crunch time”,

I always had this arrangement at the companies I worked for, except the “normal hours” were actually me doing next to nothing, and the “crunch time” was me genuinely busting my ass for a few weeks nearly every waking hour to get the software finished and out the door. It was nothing more than an extension of how I handled college rather than some arrangement that the companies intentionally offered. Management was always just so utterly fucking clueless about anything related to the technical side of software development that it was easy to fool them into thinking that my way of doing things was just normal for the field.

In ancient times (with some exceptions) the elites preserved their monopoly on organized violence and did most of the fighting themselves. Then they helped themselves to the young women without any regard for what the poor young men thought about it.

Only things that have changed are the social control technologies and the mustaches.

I’m on .world and I see .ml stuff.

That’s modern war in a nutshell. Old men sending the young men off to die so the young women have to bang them.

Leaders killing several hundred thousand

Progress! It used to be millions.

US mortgages are almost always fixed-rate

A lot of them are variable-rate which is just insane. You’re allowing your mortgage lender to charge you whatever interest rate they feel like charging, with your only out being the hassle of refinancing.

I just read that book. God damn is Zuck a wanker. On the other hand, the author was just nuts for ever thinking Faceblerk was anything other than what it is.

I had my school bus broken into one time. I called the police department, explained the situation, and asked the dispatcher if they could send an officer to make a report. This is how the rest of the conversation went:
“Nah.”
“Nah?”
“Yeah, nah.” click

I went to Walmart once because at the time it was the only grocery store in the area that carried plantains. I have honestly never shopped anywhere else where I felt that level of malevolence from the employees. It was as if they were all working there only because their children were being held hostage and tortured and they were right on the cusp of deciding they didn’t really love their children that much. I thought I was close to getting stabbed by one of them, and I hadn’t even asked anybody for help finding anything.

What really blows my mind though is why anyone shops at Target. At least stuff at Walmart is cheap, but Target is ridiculously expensive while still being shit, especially the grocery department.

On the flip side, I was at the Shop-Rite self checkout one time, and every time I put something into my own bags I got the “unscanned item” alert. I kept looking over at the employee in charge of the checkout area with an enraged face and he would clear the alert and look apologetic. After like the tenth time this happened, I finally realized it was happening because I wasn’t actually scanning anything – I was just taking shit from my cart and putting it right into my bags. I have no idea why I had this brain fart all of a sudden, but I suppose I could have gotten a bunch of free groceries if I hadn’t apologized to the dude and put everything back in my cart and scanned it properly.

My dad died last year, and when I called the funeral home we’d picked out for him to come and pick up his body, the answering service was AI. It had the fake typing and background noises, and when I said dad’s name the AI read it back to me for confirmation as “Bob common name, Smith common name”. Like WTF? I was pretty much in shock from this and too flummoxed to tell it to fuck off and call a different funeral home. However mad you think this would make you in that situation, trust me it was worse.

I just don’t understand what they stand to lose by admitting that humans have demonstrably increased the global temperatures.

Cars.

I’ve long said that the more people you add to a software project, the longer it will take and the worse the final product will be. Your scenario describes one of the many reasons why this is the case.