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MyBrainHurts

@ MyBrainHurts @piefed.ca

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  • Would you pay for online services like search and email if they offered a better experience than Google?

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  • It’s literally just SMTP/POP — where’s the “value add”?

    I'd say to the majority of people, that first part reads like nonsense.

    The value add is thus "you don't have to learn computer stuff."

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Maybe recency bias, but a lot of stuff from the new Running Man hits home. Maybe not the murder TV show but (obviously minor worldbuilding spoilers):

    Bifurcated society, where the have nots have to check in to enter the nice part of town. (Related story: A couple years ago, I visited America for a wedding. After the pre-wedding reception, I was walking back to my hotel through an upscale neighbourhood, in a suit. Within a half hour private security drove by, got out of the car, hand on gun and explained they'd received calls about me walking on the sidewalk. The guy then insisted he drive me to a more suitable area.)

    Unions existed but reporting to them gets you blacklisted, people need work so safety regulations only exist on paper.

    Veterans Affairs is taken over by the Y and reduced to a miserable hostel and not much else.

    Time in a green park is awarded by lottery and only briefly.

    Ubiquitous private security.

    One media network, that is free and mostly exists to pit haves vs have nots. (Pretty much social media already)

    Etc. I think the part that really gets me is you don't have to imagine particularly hard to see us getting there.

  • My head hurts...

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  • You'd think his death wouldn't be so boaring.

  • Dating after 30 is a final boss level

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  • Ooooooooh, that's good thinking. They are literally my favourite youtube thing and I'd be even more gutted if corpo took them away.

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  • Honestly, if it was Werner Herzog asking instead of my folks... Maybe.

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  • I was pretty choked when I saw that. I'd been excited for them to finish the new series and I was even going to get ready and probably finally watch episode 9.

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  • Awww man, I hadn't made that association. Happily, the bit is too good to ruin. (Not your fault and glad you enjoyed it!)

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  • Oh, best believe we used that line all the time, unironically. It's like they'd all watched Glengarry Glen Ross and missed the entire point of the movie/play.

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  • That's messed up!

    My rule, especially when I was working in South East Asian neighbourhoods, was something like "stop saying yes to the first dinner offer! There'll be something amazing you haven't had yet by door 5." (Those folks were crazy friendly, really blew me away and opened my eyes to a whole range of delicious foods.)

  • Dating after 30 is a final boss level

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  • Ha, amazing! Admittedly, I'm at the age where whenever one of my good drinking friends orders a non alcoholic beverage, it's usually followed by an explanation, and because we're us, a good percentage of the time that explanation does involve gestating a tiny new person.

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  • I'm not sure about pure evil so much as sociopathic. I worked briefly in door to door sales, got taken to some high performer award celebration nonsense and was standing in one of those group circles as people were recounting war stories. "Give her the discount? Hell no. And then I realized she was too old to read what I was writing so I just added an extra year on to the contract!" Huge round of laughter, light applause.

    To make it more gross... The discount was standard, we got no extra commission for having or not having it, was purely a free promotion to grease the wheels. He just didn't because, well, the old lady he'd scammed was too trusting.

    I quit shortly after.

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  • Ha, the music absolutely makes it work! Have you listened to Craven In Outer Space"s solo stuff? His synthwave remix of Hit Me Baby One More Time is genuinely one of my favourite songs of 2025. (Concerning Hobeats is up there too)

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  • I had never heard of Backstroke before, just looked it up and cannot wait to watch it sometime!

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  • Thanks for sharing the much more appropriate link!

    Their stuff is so damned good. Existential Stormtroopers always cracks me up.

    The meme is actually an attempt to exorcize Babytime from my head, where it's been stuck for the better part of a week.

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  • Forgot to give credit where credit is die, this still is from episode 3 of the auralnauts version of Star Wars. I love pretty much everything they've done and a million percent recommend them:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=WSCm8yAxBr8

  • Stupid Cat vs. Smart Cat: pick one

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  • This is so well put.

  • Stupid Cat vs. Smart Cat: pick one

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  • I've only ever had one cat and she is definitely a Smart cat and I would argue a Good one.

    It's been pretty easy training her to stay off electronics/furniture, most morning wellness checks happen after the alarm and even takes medicine like a champ.

    I don't have any real sort of baseline but I feel my cat understands a lot of the intent behind my words and often acts accordingly, more than most animals and many small children with whom I've worked.