Oh, look, another industry forcing instant roll-backs of new laws by hurting the consumers to "prove" the law is "harmful".

Horrific civilian death toll as the IDF "mistakenly" bombs the very safe zones where they told people to go in 3, 2, 1...

You're doing Lord Baphomet's work here, but I think I'm good. Thanks though!

Back in 2006/2007 I was reading Slashdot for tech news and stuff. I started noticing that a lot of newer content was just linking to Reddit posts, so I figured I'd cut out the middleman and jumped ship to Reddit.

Good... and also "bye".

Yeah, have you tried just... being @rosymind@leminal.space ? Their experience is obviously superior, why would you want to be anybody else? /s

Seattle media come in three types:

1. Sinclair, so, unabashedly authoritarian; they actively lobby for more cops no matter what.
2. Incapable (sorry KING 5, you guys ain't evil but you ain't competent either); they just pass on whatever the SPD has to say.
3. Independent / Fringe; they don't support the cops but they're on shoestring budgets and have limited effectiveness.

So we're pretty much screwed on the media front.

I'm hoping to someday buy a computer that can run Squadron 42. Can Social Security help with that?

Somewhere out there a vending machine is crying its metal heart out

Doubtful; A) that would cause rust, and B) it'd have to pay to get that capability in the first place!

Honestly, I had zero expectations of Vending Machine but it's mildly exceeded them. Way better than it has any right to be.

Yeah... nah.

My first reaction: "whoo, more of these two!"

My second reaction, being only partway through Season 2: "...shit, are they still not together!?"

I wonder if there's a full archive up anywhere; KONG (King 5's spinoff station) re-ran all the episodes a few years* back (when The 206 was trying to be a thing) so somebody might have some recent high-quality captures or something.

*due to COVID Time, "a few years" means up to 10 years ago ;_;)