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.

Good bot

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

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

Are you okay?

Fighter pilot reflexes

We never find out exactly what happens to Benny Russell beyond this point, as after the breakdown occurs, Captain Sisko wakes up. Back on Deep Space 9, it seems as if his experiences as Benny Russell were all just a fantasy.

Yes, we do. He ends up in an asylum. He is shown briefly while Sisko approaches the Orb of the Emissary.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Orb_of_the_Emissary

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.

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

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

More like SudoExW

Not that it really matters, but the commercial is for Old El Paso.

Is that… ICQ? Why?

Powell has the power to push exactly one button.

A plate

Mass is mass

Hot Tub Time Machine

Michael Sullivan (of “delete the wife” fame) says it in Lower Decks 4x01. And a Betazoid gift box says it again in 4x03 (after similarly living an entire fabricated lifetime in a moment).