Disney's quite used to losing money hand-over-fist by now.

As a teen, I spent my time in front of a screen, learning everything I could and honing my craft to get ready for the future and was rewarded with endless ridicule for "sitting at a computer all the time". For the past fifteen years, almost every family party entailed well over half of everyone glued to their phone while I tried to make conversation.

I pushed back once, and got the "Look who's talking. You do it, too." Did... I was learning QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal, and C programming, AutoCAD, Autodesk Animator Pro, 3D Studio Max, PhotoShop, every Microsoft OS inside and out, and even Linux. I was combining computers with the electronic circuits I learned to build when I was so much younger. Them? Doomscrolling and cat videos.

I eventually just stopped going. It was just too depressing.

Your smart bed knows when you're fucking.

If I'm paying $5000 for a mattress, it had better do a lot more than that.

When I was a child: Rare to see a satellite pass overhead.
Early adulthood: Plenty of satellites and space junk to see.
Middle age: Rare to see a satellite that isn't Starlink.
Late life: Lucky to die of something other than being hit by space junk?

Bose has great noise cancellation tech. They should have stayed in their lane, though. I make good money repairing old Bose units so I can't be too sour on that front. B&O is for audiophools. Old-school B&O is pretty good, though.

Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Shure, Onkyo, Sansui, Pioneer, Sherwood, Marantz, classic Black Widow era Peavey, Sony, Klipsch, Polk, Thiel, Mission, and even Optimus/Realistic. I have my pick of the litter when I wear my Technician hat. I keep what sounds nice.

Enshittify

I hope you get modded up. Said it better thany snide ass did.

1995 is over, Toyota.

Future e-waste. I don't have to be a helicopter pilot to know seeing one stuck in a tree isn't normal.

Holding a "Homeless. Anything helps. God bless." sign. Next to a Redbox and a few starving payphones.

It's not a "plan" if it's already in motion.

"If we did that, profits would go down! Call the lobbyists. Bribe somebody. Our retirement plans are in danger from people who shouldn't live long enough to retire without owing us their lives; and paying accordingly!"

On a regular basis, I see ads where they don't even tell you what condition the drug being advertised is meant to treat. Just the usual happy people doing life things while a voiceover tells you all the ways the drug can kill you, rape your dog and tell your kids Santa Claus isn't real. "Ask your doctor is Whatthefuckitrol is right for you."

Doctor: "No. Whatthefuckitrol is only for treatment of Ass Teeth."

Tell us how you really feel.