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Is it that good? I quite liked The Plague Dogs. He writes with a nice flowery style.

Neat, I didn't know there was an upside down interrobang.

Interesting! That makes sense now. I thought it stood for CAble TV and always wondered why they used two letters instead of just CTV.

Yeah, I'll freely admit I'm a curmudgeon with respect to technology "upgrades", but we've really lost a lot of solid reliability in our phone systems (landlines at least)

Now it feels like an afterthought compared to all of the redundancies they had put in place back then.

I guess my opinion rounds down to nothing now. I guess that fits my track record.

Funny, I use toilet paper and check if it gets wrinkled, but I like your method better.

Yeah, but everyone knows that one. ;)

That bothers me way more than it ought to too. When I hear people saying it IRL I keep thinking that trillion dollar companies are engineering our speech.

What can ya do? :/

That's the point. It hardly does what is claimed to do.

Until we find the murderer's face!

"I asked GPT-5 without thinking and it said..."

Did you post the essay anywhere? I've always had kind of a soft spot for Ted--not his actions, mind, but his manifesto raises some rather prescient ideas. I also think he was..."justified" in a sense; again, not in his actions, but his decision to check out of society, only for society to come back to get him.

I'm happy to be proven wrong about any of that though. It's been quite a few years since I read it.

I completely agree with your "Children of Ted" hypothesis, for that matter. Historically, oppression births revolutionaries, for better or worse.

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums"

Not part of this, but that's not really called for.

It just seems you two have different experiences from possibly different countries is all.

On nearly every point. We should be glad we still have water, if not just to flush the toilets with.