“Please update your credit card and subscription to access premium colors such as red!”

Me after a restart following a seemingly harmless package update:

“Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”

As someone that lives outside the US, this is not a real friction point.

What do you think all the rest of the Boomers in the world do?

Finally, my tax dollars going to things I want!

Globally, this is becoming a thing. Many states have digital IDs already.

Realistically, both paper with a chip or QR code should be valid for a while.

The color blue is not for rent, they’re giving that shit away.

I made the same journey during COVID, ultimately arriving at a similar place that the Nicene Creed was the first in a long line of obvious retconned political and human decisions. For what is worth, I also feel like it’s in the same vein as most of what Paul did, codifying and standardizing to the detriment of the source material and to the benefit of anyone willing to take charge.

I’m still genuinely shocked that anyone can read the Gospels and then not see the record-scratch pivot in tone for everything else afterwards. Well, shocked in as far as to then be disappointed at how easily a mess of addenda created something antithetical to a bunch of nebulous good vibes with no clear avenue to monetize it all.

Which, oddly enough, Buddhism does as well, but owns it as part of the process.

What if we just re-name breakfast “Wokemeal”?