famousringo

@famousringo@sh.itjust.works
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We’ll there was that time Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan with the largest amphibious assault in history (until D-day) and got absolutely wrecked by a typhoon.

Then tried again a few years later, with an even larger force, and got wrecked by another typhoon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan

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Windows is nagware now. Microsoft dared to imagine an entire OS on the Winrar model.

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“You can’t trust me to behave like an adult in a room with just one other person, but you can trust me with the power of the state.”

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The zoomers were never on Twitter. Too busy with their Snappychats and Tikkytalks.

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Crap, you’re right.

Better not vote for them and just accept having no abortion rights until a viable third party shows up.

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JFC, you know Trump’s IT guy has seen some shit. Probably has a 1000 yard stare.

Transphobia was a punchline in basically every 90s comedy.

Now you and me battle for the supremacy of our respective generations on the fields of Usenet, to honour our ancestors.

They even padded up her shoulders. She got unironically balenciaga’d by the fashion industry.

I’m all about enlightened self-interest.

Like, altruism is rad and all, but some people are only ever going to be helpful if they stand to gain something, and it’s best we remind them of what they stand to gain at every opportunity.

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If you build enough solar and wind to kick fossils off the grid, they’re going to overproduce at times of peak operation. Rather than wasting that peak production, use it to process CO2.

Also, Canada’s forests burned so hard, they were a net emitter this year. I’m not sure how reliable a carbon sink trees really are as the warming gets worse…

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“Close enough, fuck it.” — National motto of Ancient Greece

It’s just a widdle baby star.

Jokes on you, I’m into that sweet and spicy shit!

Russian cruisers upgrade to submarines.

Russian submarines upgrade to aircraft.

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Is it true that all these parliament buildings are so spiky so giant hobos won’t nap on them?

You’re right. They should’ve called apps web 3.0, but then the web guys might have to admit that a big reason why people flocked to apps is because of how much they’d already enshittified the web at that point.

They won the orca war without firing a shot.

It pries, it scrapes, it can do anything!

We’re walking about Windows, here. If 32-bit ever dies on Windows, it will be lovingly stuffed and placed on the mantle like a pet whose owner can’t admit it’s gone.

Milk moustache.

Ah, the superior siege utensil.

I was thinking Alien.

And so this is Christmas And what have you done?

Gotta link to the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg