RP1 really is just Snow Crash but Stupid and Badly Written.

My favorite part about this whole thing is that he’s clearly “challenging” her with upbeat songs that aren’t very complicated and seem like they’re fun to play.

I really wonder how different the public perception of Joe would be if they left in all the racial slurs they apparently had to cut out. But something tells me people would like him only marginally less.

I think both “what if phones but too much” and “the people are broken, not the tech,” can be true at the same time. Your curmudgeonly uncle who says things like “People don’t just talk anymore, it’s all text text text” isn’t necessarily criticizing the technology. He’s criticizing how people interact with it. But it’s…