Flashing back to Red Planet.

Somebody call Tom Selleck!

Runaway as well, but without the mall.

“You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle.” -ED-209

They have a series on Gates too.

The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).

Dual booted for the longest time, until sometime last year. Windows partition is still there, but it’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten the password. 😳

🙂 👋

Weird, the link works for me. :/

Oh, I’ve certainly thought of alternate time-lines. Aspiring writer here. Trying to turn one of them into a novel (well, novel series lol), but you know, ADHD. So I could certainly talk at length about that.

Thanks. I’ve tried getting help. What few have accepted never seemed to have the time, or else they had too much trouble with the wiki paradigm? Idk. It’s been a struggle. Which is too bad since I tend to work better (i.e. more often) when others are involved.

Audhd here, so way too many interests to list (short list here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Murdoc). But my biggest long-standing one is called Technocracy. Not how the word gets used most of the time today, but rather the proposed sustainable and post-scarcity economic system devised in the 1920s. Not only is it just interesting from being a novel and well-designed system, but it deals with so many important issues like poverty, environmentalism, sexism, racism, crime, and all in an objective, hard scientific way (i.e. not “political science”). All that science and progressivism (from 100 years ago too!) just delights my autistic brain no end. Here’s my attempt to make the topic more accessible to the modern audience: https://technate.org/tiki-index.php

I’d put starting projects at 🙂 provided I like them. Otherwise, spot on.

I believe it’s called internalized ablism. Adopting the belief structures of neurotypicals because for most of our lives we didn’t know that there was any other way. It’s a lot of work digging those roots out of there.

In my case, finishing them.

Jupiter was declared too big to fail.

I think a TARDIS can do that.

Dwarf continent

Ah yes, the ol’ “promoted to the level of their incompetence”. SOP. Or SNAFU, take your pick.

That’s amusing, jenga on the moon.

Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

I’d guess that the down votes weren’t because it wasn’t true, but rather simply that the fact made them unhappy. Not the best use of down votes, but understandable.

Which has its own downside, that being the up-front cost.

“Press Play on tape.”

(makes lunch)

“File found. Loading…”

(takes a bath, goes for a walk, reads a book…)

Ah the memories…