@emma @jrconlin @mhoye@mastodon.social Adding to my list of future band names:
"Cult of the Corn Guns"
@kolbychez Your experience may vary, but FWIW mine is the surly Gen X 90s-grunge-era barista that we came to accept as not "the help" so much as a reluctant service provider not to be screwed with.
@socketwench @kolbychez @socketwench This was also my experience in, like, Canada and the UK for many years. But yeah, my other toot notwithstanding, I think folks in the USA are poisoned by a certain expectation of being treated especially well as customers
@derwinmcgeary "this century" was actually kind of pushing it for me 😅
@whiskeysailor right on daddy-o
May the Fourth be with you and Death to all Skywalkers for the good of the galaxy (no seriously)
https://notes.lmorchard.com/The%2520Skywalkers%2520of%2520Star%2520Wars.html
The context for this little rant is how disgusted I was when Luke Skywalker CGI'd his way onto The Mandalorian, which I had been really enjoying as a Skywalker-free zone up to that point
@technomancy have a cola and smile, my sibling in christ?
@cosullivan "it's got electrolytes"
@c0debabe @craigmaloney The real kicker is you have to install the plugin in your neuralink
@rantingsteve BRB, crafting a new toot to burn to CDROM
Whew, sudden flashback to when Macromedia absolutely dominated my early career
https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Director_7_Shockwave_Internet_Studio
And an especial time-vertigo moment for Director 5, which I used as part of a multimedia collab between the compsci and the art departments in college as a senior year project in 1997
Like, back then, having computer people and art people doing a thing together in 1997 was a weird Special Topic at my school just as the web was kind of taking off
@craigmaloney I wrote an IRC client in a Java applet once hahahahhaaha
@epoch@tilde.zone @craigmaloney yeah, I ended up writing a little port redirection server in Java to go with it that ran on the same domain. This would have been back in 1997 and I was a webmaster trying to keep Apache running on like a packard bell pc running Linux :blobsweat:
@mhoye@mastodon.social same same
Still thinking someday I want to get a tattoo that reads "astra mortemque praestare gradatim"
@crwbot Now I kinda want that whole sticker as a tattoo!
@mdhughes I have that on vinyl from when I was a kid, it's amazing!