They way they marketed their VPN early on was the first thing I thing. The VPN seemed great but the marketing felt like virtue signalling, I don’t really remember the specifics so it could have been a me thing. Then the news broke they turned over user data to authorities. I kind of expected it but they pushed the fact that they were in Switzerland like it made them more shielded from that (again kind of a marketing distaste). Then this year there was them accidentally funding a french far right youtuber. A small enough thing to have been a mistake, but also it piles on to the bad feelings.

So it’s not antagonism, but it’s an ick.

Proton has always giving me the ick, but at this point I think 99% of it is Yen.

xkcd also happened to release a comic about a “vulnerability in the number 3” the same day the eMudhra news broke.

Basically this Chris and Jack sketch

Diseases that can cross between animals and humans are called zoonotic diseases and they aren’t super common. The old colloquialism that dog mouths are cleaner than human mouths stems from this, the truth is more that the nasty things in a dogs mouth don’t affect us (much).

I winced.

Most arbitrary decisions like this can be blamed on Victorians.

Its like its the middle of winter and the forecast says its going to be sunny an relatively warm on the weekend. Then you wake up Saturday and it’s freezing rain and thunder.

Ouija

I did finally clean the SIMMs out of my big box of leftover gear. If I haven’t used them this millennium, I probably won’t need them.

The board had this ability and they didn’t use until now!?

And how do we that?

It’s simple, we kill The Batman.

Currently you can, but there was news last month the FCC is planning to force carriers to verify ID before allowing them on their networks.

Only boomers and hate group members are allowed in Idaho. That sign was false advertising.

I don’t have any numbers.

Personally I didn’t notice the attitude shift about him until the Mandalorian movie came out and it was obvious that he was probably on set for 2 hours for that top billing role, while doubles were wearing the armor in every scene but one. It, to me, seems like one part of a growing frustration with current blockbuster movies (the kind that really like to cast Pascal). Everything is green screen, stories are recycled, its all about marketing, and now the actors aren’t even there half the time any more.

Its a human nature thing, I think. Like sometimes if something sounds too obvious we assume it has to be more complicated than that. The same way many people don’t realize a “meltdown” is a nuclear core literally melting downward through the ground.

You just make a tent out of aluminum foil.

Sometimes the meaning is clear from the name, but just to keep you on your toes they’ll then talk about creaming butter or a bain-marie for melting chocolate.

The chocolate was thicker too. Easier to peel off and eat separately.

Maybe it’s my frame of mind (I’m not “discovering” new music, I stopped paying for streaming when I realized 99% of what I was listening to was recorded in the last millennium) but I can’t fathom how this would “turn free users to paid.”

Fantasy, not sci-fi. At least since Disney killed all the extended canon that tried to graft on science to all the fantastic elements.