Got_Bent

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to showerthoughts in Instead of movies and crappy games on those in-flight displays, they should just stream the view out the cockpit window.

I really enjoy watching the features of the desert when I fly to Vegas. You can almost see the geographic history of how the grand canyon came about. I love the dried up river beds that look like ancient crooked highways.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to technology in Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11

Man I’m so out of the loop, I had no idea what Cortana was and thought Windows was finally shutting down all instances of Encarta. (It looks like Encarta did live until around 2008, which does surprise me)

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to asklemmy in How many of you were using Digg during its prime?

I was active on the snopes message board before Reddit. Snopes went all to hell right around the time I switched. Now the message boards are gone and the site itself is mostly the owner asking for money.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to technology in Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform

When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it’s institutionalized across the entire Internet.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to news in Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it

I can’t see myself headed back to Oregon any time soon, but good. It was so frustrating trying to get gas behind a line of twenty five cars being “served” by a single slack jawed yokel taking smoke breaks between each car and God help you if you needed gas at night when everybody was closed.

New Jersey gas attendants can be surly, but my experiences driving there at least moved the cars through getting gas efficiently.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to technology in Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

Was this article written by Holden Caulfield?

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to technology in Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks

I was either on my last slide phone or my first smart phone when Twitter came out and Facebook was beginning it’s ascent to late 2000s domination.

From the beginning, I thought the concept of effectively posting text messages on this new Twitter thing made no sense at all, so I never bothered making an account.

However many years later, I’m super glad I thought Twitter v1.0 was so silly.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to lemmyshitpost in It'll happen, one of these days

It’s been a month, and I’ve mostly forgotten about Reddit. Whether they ultimately succeed or fail is of no consequence to me.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to technology in Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter

It also seems like the whole you gotta upgrade every other month hype has long since died down. It’s not the exponential improvements that it was ten or twelve years ago.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to politics in Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term

The evangelicals seem to be trying to accelerate their end times, which also brings rationalization that present day and future climate conditions are irrelevant because they’ll be swept up into the sweet, sweet air conditioned confines of their heavenly city while they laugh at the libtards left behind burning up in the aftermath.

Source: I grew up in this shit.

Got_Bent , 10 months ago to moviesandtv in David Tennant Defends 'Good Omens' From Accusations Of Blasphemy: “People are very keen to be offended”

I’ve definitely seen episodes of Father Ted. I think it may have been on Netflix for a while, but the memory fades, so I’m not sure.

Got_Bent , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in I took a look into the future

I clicked on the X in the picture to try to close it. I am not a clever man.

Got_Bent , 11 months ago to worldnews in Greta Thunberg fined for disobeying police order - TT

So she got all that press for a couple hundred bucks in fines. It’s beautiful.

Got_Bent , 11 months ago to newcommunities in Honda Element - A place for owners and fans of the mighty Honda Element to discuss all topics related to the vehicle

I loved my Element. Gave it to my daughter when she got her license and she drove it until the wheels fell off.

Now she says one of her goals in life is to make enough money to restore one.

Got_Bent , 11 months ago to technology in Musk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him

Maybe Exene should get on the horn to her lawyers.