Tomorrow’s bingo halls will instead be net gaming centres, and the old men sitting at tables in bars playing cards will be playing Balatro.
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Now there’s a guy whose skinsuit fits awkwardly
They abandoned the gold standard because it suffered from acute boom and bust cycles.
Time to Switch 2 a Steam Deck.
The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.
This is my surprised face.
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Nazi Germany toned down its rhetoric as to appear normal to visitors, and “No Jews allowed” signs disappeared from public places. The moment the Olympics were over, they reappeared.
This has the same energy.
See also: Elon Musk’s how-do-you-do-fellow-geeks shtick (“it’s the car Blade Runner would drive”)
The Internet now:
> find AI-generated content for your bizarre thing that nobody else has thought of yet
> start chatting with a bot that reinforces your fantasies with the mashed-up content of all the world’s knowledge
> disappear into a rabbit hole forever
It’s ingrained to avoid attraction to siblings we grow up alongside, though anecdotally there have been many cases of siblings who grew up apart discovering they were siblings after meeting as strangers and feeling mutual attraction, so the biological instinct may just have evolved around the most common case.
He’s still useful to the people who can conjure money into being. Surely they can spare him a few oil-company board positions, book deals, newspaper columns or “consultancy” roles in think tanks, or otherwise throw him enough of an allowance to reward his service and keep him ready for the future. And then there’s the public speaking circuit.
Boy’s not going to be bagging groceries.
The upmarket ones can advertise having new CRT monitors. By then, surely someone will have started a factory somewhere making them in artisanal quantities for well-heeled retro-gaming enthusiasts.