They’ve been frantically rolling back repeatedly, and the simulation just keeps going off the rails. Didn’t you see the posts in ten forward?

Her: is that Harry Potter you’re reading?

She approached me on the bus when I was commuting. It was a couple of decades ago when HP was new and fun. She was fun too, but we only went on a couple of dates.

I’m not surprised at all. At the time, I was trying to be as social as possible. If she’d stomped on my toe and then asked me out, I’d probably have said yes.

I thought I was smart/knowledgeable until I started working with people who really are smart/knowledgeable.

I tried to keep up and be one of them, but I do better when I just try to follow along with them and consider alternatives and implications of what they propose.

I wouldn’t say I’m the token idiot, but I have perspectives they don’t, and those are useful. Then again, that’s exactly what the token idiot would say.

Yeah, I don’t get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they’d still be fucking us over.

Speaking for myself, it’s more like “I know I can look intimidating, and I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable, have a nice day”. I know there’s nothing wrong with me, but other people have had bad experiences.

Their generation is marked by a lack of impulse control and a deep inner rage that can often be triggered by trivial inconveniences. They also seem to have a vindictiveness to them that I never really understood, holding grudges far past their expiration date.

oh shit i might be a boomer

What was once nerd is nerd no longer, but as the wheel turns, what was nerd will be next once again.

I’m not 30-40 years old!

Google’s Deep Research AI produces similar output. I’m not saying the user definitely did that, I’m saying they could have used AI for that.

We’re early adopters. By definition: we’re nerds.

dammit Og, can’t you see that Trug is doing what he loves?

Times definitely have changed.

Also, Google was “Do no Evil”

At the time Google seemed awesome. Gmail was a game changer - a usable webapp that was better than maybe clients.

Firefox was good, but not great.

Firefox was the best of a bad bunch. It was so easy for devs to move to Chrome because the experience on every other browser was bad.

A good while back, Chrom(ium) was just flat-out faster

Performance was huge.

I was willing to put up with a little jank from my browser because I wanted a diverse browser ecosystem, but Chrome felt much, much now performant. After I switched to Chrome, browsing felt noticably better.

I think OP is mostly focusing on why people switched off of FF. Present behaviour isn’t super relevant to the conversation.

The dev tools in Chrome were a revelation. I think Firefox had something similar (Firebug?) but the Chrome tools seemed better.

It was too noisy. My wife and I used to live in a small apartment. I’d leave my Linux box on all the time. Running Firefox, it’d periodically spin up the fan, which was loud enough to annoy my wife at night, and me during the day. Chrome didn’t spin up the fan. I switched and we stopped hearing my noisy computer.

This was a while ago. I can’t remember if it was Firefox or Mozilla at that point.

One of the many reasons I don’t want to own a pet is saying goodbye. I hope you both get to enjoy each other’s company for a long time yet.

Here in Canada we’ve been trying to keep tabs on Trump’s tariff threats. At the start, our media was publishing headlines whenever posted about Canada/tariffs/etc. They seem to have given up on that (partially because Trump’s been distracted recently), but I think readers tuned out.

Instead we’re more focused on three current Canadian reaction, and the effects of whatever the current policies are. Tracking the day-to-day threats was almost information-free because Trump’s whims are so variable.

I think that strategy makes more sense: track the long-term story, without doing constant breaking news about something that’s likely to change soon.

how do you try to discern in real time what is misleading?

That’s really hard. Unless you’re in a position where your opinion will have an influence (ie, you’re a judge, cop, or protestor who can take part in the event), you might as well wait a couple of days for more information to come out.

We’ve done ourselves a massive disservice by subjecting everything to constant, immediate analysis. Most of the time, we can afford to wait and learn more.