Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

Nickelback

in “Russia”

See also: John Oliver’s take from 6 years ago

https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?si=YHabkkb1NZ8aGROS

Polishing up your resume and LinkedIn?

Are you okay?

Fighter pilot reflexes

Agreed. See also: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, etc.

We have a bad habit of gliding down the slippery slope.

We tried that once. It didn’t go so well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

They did pretty well with Inside Out as well. Bing Bong wasn’t even in any of the promotional materials at all.

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

More like SudoExW

Is that… ICQ? Why?

Powell has the power to push exactly one button.

A plate

#RED ALARM!!!

They banned flavored pods. That’s why disposables took off. Those are banned now too, but enforcement is basically non-existent at the federal level.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Both are indeed things.