and also universal remote controls.

The system starts out as a big cloud of debris orbiting a central point. Each particle is orbiting in its own way, there isn’t any organization. Since there is no organization, most of these particles are going to bump into each other. This changes the speed and direction of the particles, some of them will clump together and most of them ending up gathered at the center of gravity of the entire system. This eventually gets large enough to become your star.

As the remaining particles become clumped together into larger items they will begin exerting gravitational pull on other objects. One plane of orbit will become dominant, and the remaining clumps will gradually settle down into their orbits, in the same general plane, in the same direction. Those that don’t will have their orbital speed reduced enough that the object ends up gathered into the center.

95% of all fatal drunk-driving accidents happen in the bathroom, or something…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hlW0W03_pA

It sounds like things are working exactly as intended.

Yeah, me too.

I would really like to see this dangerous barcode. I assume something like that would just be a website QR code.

Isn’t that what they told us 20 years ago?

The only reason Tom Petty was in the Wilburys was that George Harrison left his guitar in Petty’s studio, and had to go get it. He brought Petty back with him.

I’m going to say “What is Tom Petty’s studio?”

I never understood this. When I was a wee lad I wanted a car that sounded just like KITT. Completely silent.

The only difference between now and 10m years ago is that every creature had bigger teeth back then. Prove me wrong.

It probably requires an app to monitor the wash cycle. All they have to do is start charging a subscription to use the app. If people bought the dishwasher because they would get alerts when their dishes were clean, now they have to pay a recurring fee.

Roku pushed an update to their TVs requiring owners to agree to a new terms of service. There was no “disagree” button, and the TV wouldn’t work until people accepted the changes.

This is such a new problem that it’s never been challenged in court.

There have been instances of network-enabled devices updating to put existing features behind a paywall, unilaterally changing the terms of service (can’t use device anymore until you agree to new terms), and simply removing features that you paid for when you bought the device.

Why does a dishwasher need wifi?

I would pick something remarkably awful, like Valerian and the World of a Thousand Cities. And at the end of the movie would be a note that says “I have to live with this, and now you do too.”

Never pass up a chance to fuck with future self’s mind.

https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/county-judge.html

“I am committed to fostering a culture within Tarrant County that not only celebrates faith, family and freedom, but champions these core values. My mission is to make Tarrant County the safest large county in Texas and to remain a place where the American Dream is alive and well.”

-Tim O’Hare

I don’t like spam

911, what’s your emergency?

I found a dead body on the side of the road.

Where are you? I’m sending police to you now.

Uhh, I touched it.

OK, don’t do that. Do you have hand sanitizer?

I may have eaten some.

…

Also, I tripped. I may have slipped inside.

What does that mean?

I…completed.

Listen just stay where you are, police are on their way.

I once walked down to the local ice cream dispensary to get a cone of some type. But they were short-handed that day, and had closed the walk-up window. So I walked over to the drive-thru window.

They would not serve me without a car. Instead of closing the drive-thru and making drivers get out of their car, they closed the walk-up window, and wouldn’t serve any walk-ups at the drive-thru.

Fuck drive-thrus.

My favorite phone was a Sony Xperia Compact. If they still have SD Card slots my next phone will be Sony.

You can’t have any pudding until you eat your meat.