IMO that’s a great way to look at it.

But I heard the songs are good!

TBF it’s also south of the Arctic Ocean.

We had those at my first programming job. At a later job in the 90s one of my minor duties was to swap out the tape cassette for daily backups. It held 8Gb and was about the size of a deck of playing cards. I remember talking with another guy about how amazing it was to put 8 gigabytes in your shirt pocket. Now that’s a fraction of a micro SD smaller than my fingernail.

Oh, nice idea! Maybe that’s kind of what Simon on Firefly meant by a “source box”.

Demons lol. The longstanding mass delusion that soaring cathedrals and solid gold ornaments mean you’re smarter than a naked guy shaking a magic rattle made out of a gourd.

I don’t get it. The little plastic data slabs in Star Trek TOS were called “tapes”. Apparently the term didn’t have the staying power Roddenberry expected. I wonder how much longer we’ll keep calling our little pocket supercomputers “phones”.

Now that I’m most of the way through Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this actually feels plausible.

20 of them? Just curious, how would you use 800 or 1600 TB of storage?

No, if he cited inaccurate information it was because he didn’t check it. Same as if he cited something he heard from a guy on the bus.

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Recipe articles are probably the best examples of web content whose only real purpose is ad clicks. All of the text is flavor text, in every sense.

Exactly, that’s how memes work - and I was pointing out how this is true of memes in general, which is why they aren’t good information sources.

I learned a great mashed potato technique from a nurse in a care place for children:

Nuke a potato like you’re baking it. Then cut it in half, spoon it out of the skin, add butter, salt and milk and smoosh with a fork. Re-nuke a little if it gets too cooled down. Faster than boiling, and it tastes better because you don’t pour flavor-filled cooking water down the drain. Also no pot to wash!

The nurse did this for a single serving for a kid, but it’s how I make any amount of mashed potatoes now.

That’s one reason so many people cling to quick catchy slogans and memes, or let good looking people spoonfeed them on TV. Reading Is soooo haaaaaarrrd!