There’s a Star Trek novel where Uhura has to work on an alien spaceship with touchpads and she’s like “Ugh, touchpads are the WORST. I miss my keys and switches and clicky stuff.”
I think about that a lot.
Everything needs to stop being a touchscreen. Everything needs to stop having a touchscreen on it. They are my personal enemies and I hate them. I demand the return of buttons, switches, dials, and things that only go click-clack or toc toc toc.
i just want zoomers to know that computers were actually useful once. before the iphone/ipad/android/chromebook, computers ran software that was just like a program that did what it was supposed to do. also the internet used to have a lot of cool stuff on it that didn't give you an anxiety disorder
While we're talking about how everyone should be able to marry the person they love, here's a reminder that disabled people still can't get married legally because they will have their benefits taken away. In many places, they can't even -live- with their partner unmarried without losing benefits.
I genuinely miss when TV seasons were so long they were allowed to have "filler," like yes let's spend 11 and a half minutes playing poker with the Klingon ambassador, let's have an entire episode where Giles dreams Buffy is a cat
Just remembered Superdickery, the website that was just an archive of comic book covers with Superman being a dick. My most sincerely millennial position is that online was the closest it’s ever been to perfect when there were just a zillion timesucks like that.
