My mental image of Ricky Gervais is just him saying, in an Austin Powers style affectation, “Dew I offend yew?” That’s basically been his whole shtick. But with this recent special, I just literally couldn’t follow what he was mad about.

That’s good info to have! Thank you. If only the article was as thorough as the comment section.

Bring Jimmy Kimmel on your show and give him the same amount of time to have a “free-wheeling” conversation about how Rodgers is a has-been shithead whose brain is broken. It’s only fair.

Starbucks “suggests” adding payments in $25 increments...but what is the requirement? Is there anything on the app that stops me from adding, say, 75 cents to my $2.25 balance in order to buy a $3 drink, which would then zero out my balance? 

I tried watching a bit of the Gervais one to see how bad it was, and it was just...weird. Like, the most Boomer takes imaginable. Kept going on about things you “can’t” do anymore, or things you “have to” do these days, and I just kept thinking like, what world is this guy living in?

You’re not wrong.

People who endorse RFK Jr want Trump to win.

I think it’s fine that that’s what social media is, we’ve all recognized the trade-off and we either choose to do it or choose not to.

I like how accusing someone of being on Epstein’s plane is like some massive gotcha from right wing kooks like Aaron Rodgers. Nevermind that the one person we know seemed to REALLY enjoy flying with Epstein was Trump, the right’s chosen son.

The endgame of all these “new” “innovations” is to cash out at the top and watch the enshittification turn the whole thing into something useless again.

It reminds me of that one viral Twitter post with the poll of “What’s your favorite tech innovation?” and the choices are Illegal Cab Company, Illegal Hotel Chain, Fake Money for Criminals, and Plagiarism Machine.

I tried watching it. It’s not the PG-13 that kills it, it’s that it’s just DULL. It seems like it was written by Chat GPT. The whole plot for like the hour or so I watched is just going from place to place and recruiting new interchangeable team members.

Man, tech bros are really struggling to come up with anything new that isn’t just “data collection for targeted ads”. Sorry your “virtual second life where I can remotely go to an office but not have legs” didn’t work out Mark.

I think (hope) you’re on the right track but I think it didn’t so much BREAK the cult of Musk, as much as it streamlined and concentrated it. There was a generic overall “appreciation” or at least mild respect of Musk in the overall public consciousness that I think was already fading at the time of the Twitter…

If any article actually DESERVES to be a slideshow...of course it ends up being an article with a single photograph.

He’s also not “caught” in the rain storm, since he’s completely dry.

Been selling stuff on eBay for a long time and they’re really pushing using AI to generate your product listing descriptions. And lemme tell ya, it sucks every time!

Most organizations that I’ve ever worked for tried to limit overtime, because overtime costs the company money.

Didn’t read it. Your points are still wrong, by the way.

A big Majors fan? Dude, I called him a gigantic shithead in my first post.