Why is it always Taco Bell

Large number of complaints about the modern world resolve down to "I want everything in one bag and I don't want the bag to be heavy"

I want the newest, coolest, shiniest phone they advertise on Instagram and it should cost $30 and be tiny and also huge and have every feature I could possibly want without thinking about it

I want my websites to allow me unlimited uploading of all data in high definition with zero lag or buffering, have every single person on earth available, with an easy way to see only the stuff I like and not anything I don't, for free with zero ads, with clear, straightforward moderation that gets rid of every Nazi and has zero false positives that also lets me tell random strangers and the people running the site to kill themselves, and I should be able to find it without doing any independent searching on my own because I'm too lazy to look for it

and there shouldn't be any data centers for it!

everyone say it with me now: cahm on engerland

no more World Cup games in Miami

starting to come to terms that AI is a societal threat not because of power usage (solvable on a medium-term horizon, nuclear needs to happen anyway) or even for AGI reasons (way too far out), but because it is a huge issue to be taking a population that mostly doesn’t trust each other for petty tribal reasons and creating an information environment in which nothing can be proven with 100% certainty to be authentic, let alone real. this is going to be a disaster for public trust and the commons but the effect won’t be as dramatic because everyone already hates each other, even just from covid era conscientiousness decline alone

also the spearphishing situation is about to be insane if it isn’t already. if you answer calls from numbers not in your address book I recommend not doing that anymore

planting bamboo is already an evil maneuver but planting bamboo you can’t even do anything with is worse. I got all this bamboo that’s soft and bendy and generally useless but is just as much of a pain to tear out as the bamboo that is actually good for something besides being annoying. mild category 1 ree

the death announcement was sufficiently vague that if you ask someone what they think Lindsay Graham died of you can guess their internet user tendency with 85% accuracy