I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet

Clueless MBA parasites ruining shit for everybody again?

Must be a day that ends in Y

The Usenet post I linked to claims it’s originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that’s accurate or not. I actually can’t find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it’s usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90’s

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Single digit IQ reich-wing troll, business as usual

The Phase II clinical trial is evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of Incel administered intravenously

Mainlining incel, damn that doesn’t sound great at all

The amount of pants-shitting about the film from people who’d only read the books (probably not even all of them) was, well… predictable

Was

Gamers aren’t persecuted anywhere near enough

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

Wasn’t expecting a fucking rainforest

Orders a

Meaning that he knows he’s sharing bullshit

You sure he’s getting hoodwinked and not sharing shit he knows is fake on purpose?

Stalin was nominated twice

Just goes to show that cat memes have always been a thing.

Needs more compression artifacts though:

It’s awesome that the Library of Congress page had TIFF files of the kitty

The program’s path from a CP/M app by MicroPro onward is winding, being shoved into a half-baked office suite, acquired by SoftKey, which became the Learning Company, acquired by Mattel, spun off to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep, and is now the archival property of—well, nobody’s quite sure.

Looking forward to the eventual frivolous takedown notice and/or lawsuit – suits seem to have absolutely zero brains when it comes to this stuff. Or, well, when it comes to anything except making themselves and their buddies on the board richer, really

I am deeply saddened by the news that I won’t be seeing this in any classical music concerts.

Might as well sell those tickets I bought, then ☹️