doomscrolling the palantir

What a brilliant image and very in keeping with Tolkien’s disdain for modern technology. Sauron using technology to run a psyop on Gondor, and it worked.

As this is Lemmy, I misread the image and came here for Dirty Spock. I’m disappointed now …

Richard Scarry

If you watched for a while, every now and then you’d see a leg or a boob for a moment. Simpler times.

When this image was created there was no texting and everyone answered the phone. Source: old

Also Robin Hood

Enjoy your home OP. May you live out many happy years under its shelter.

Maybe I’m just old but the old memes were built to last. These newer memes fall apart after a few days.

The playing field is not equal so it isn’t reasonable to hold people to the same standard of making an impact.

Work will set you free

Yes, Bilbo describing how it feels to have ones life elongated by the ring without knowing that the ring is doing it

He feels thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Uncle Milton and his cat 5 anaconda …

Not at the same time, but in alternation, sure. It’s all reactions to underlying shame and inadequacy beliefs/feelings which are there all the time I expect.

This tracks with my assessment of the two likely personalities of software engineers, either narcissistic or anxious with imposter syndrome.

Borbs aren’t real.

My thoughts exactly

Juan Pablo Raba could do it today. He’s got the right combination of debonair and comedy. But Raul was the GOAT Gomez.

The Friday night lineup in those days was Dukes, followed by The Love Boat, followed by Fantasy Island. I didn’t know it was racist. I thought it was a sort of Robbin Hood story with cool car jumps and a corrupt Sheriff of Nottinghazzard.

Haha, only the black parts of the target were shot and the white parts of the target were not shot. Clearly this means the marksman is racist /s