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It was a singular scene where Moss was fixing someone’s computer and actually hitting it off with her. But he’s so dense, he didn’t realize she was flirting with him.

She’s a nameless extra for this one scene. The show is The IT Crowd, a British comedy show about members of an IT office in the basement of a large corporation.

*Sync for Lemmy* has a paid version that gets rid of ads. Its developer was one of the most vocal when Reddit started charging developers for access to their API. *Sync for Reddit* was one of the most popular third-party Reddit apps before then. Its developer is also absent all the time. They poke their head in every few months, fix a bunch of problems, then disappear into the nether for an indeterminate amount of time. I actually switched to Voyager because I was annoyed at how difficult it was to get anything fixed on Sync. And of course, Voyager is free.

There's a popular brand here in Minnesota called Kemps Ice Cream that makes a "Peppermint Bon Bon" flavor. It's my absolute favorite ice cream of all time. Despite the name, it's the good "creme de menthe" mint, not the strong York peppermint patties kind. And the chocolate is just fine shavings, so they melt in your mouth without any hard or chunky texture in your smooth ice cream. The brand was bought by some ice cream company in Kansas City, but it's still headquartered here in Minnesota, so I believe the brand has spread out across the Midwest a bit. If you're in the region, you should seek it out.

I used to… until I heard someone read it aloud one day.

You’re looking for Umamusume: Pretty Derby. It’s a Japanese video game franchise that has expanded into anime and manga as well. The games are all gacha games (collect items through gameplay or in-game currency). In this case, you collect and train tons of horse girls to compete in races. The original game is a mobile game, but there’s a free version on Steam that lets you play on your PC. All the anthropomorphic horse girls are based on real-life Japanese race horses (same name and hair coloring), and some of the game’s stories are based on real races too. It’s not an adult game series, if that’s what your curious about, but I’m sure there’s plenty of “fan art” in the darker corners of the Internet, if you know where to look.

I think that's the one thing that truly drew my interest with Umamusume. Every "horse girl" is named and styled after a real-life Japanese racing horse. If it was just an anime show/video game about anthropomorphic horse girls, I wouldn't really care. But now I'm interested in comparing them to their real-life counterparts.

That’s Google. Their motto was, “Don’t be evil.” That was the two original founders’ motto, which was silently changed sometime after the company was sold.

I gave up Reddit the day I moved here. Haven’t been back to Reddit since. I much prefer it here.

Interestingly enough, the reason Brad Pitt is advertised so heavily is the reason I still haven’t watched it. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s an excellent actor and I enjoy seeing him on screen. I just don’t understand why an F1 movie needed Brad Pitt. I’m here to watch race cars, not some famous actor behind the wheel! If they cast an unknown in the lead, I’d be more intrigued because I’m interested in Formula 1 racing. But putting a famous guy in the lead makes me feel like this is gonna be some dramatic feel-good fantasy story, not something more grounded in reality. And yes, I know this movie is just a giant advertisement for Formula 1. But that’s a real motorsport race, so I’d be more invested if the movie felt like watching a real person’s story, not an actor telling a fictional story in the setting of F1 racing.

[…] we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant. Yeah, this has been my fear lately. As a kid in the '80s/'90s, I had high hopes for humanity. I loved space travel stories; read so many science fiction books, watched Star Trek/Star Wars, loved space films of all genres… But lately, I’ll be happy if we ever make it to Mars. The one person who had a dedicated mission to get a man on Mars turned out to be a self-destructing billionaire sociopath who seems to have abandoned that dream for political meddling aspirations instead. If we can get capitalism out of the way, humanity might have a chance at bouncing back. But as long as a few powerful elites maintain control over society, our hopes and dreams will forever be redirected toward financial gains until the collapse of society. On the plus side, even Rome, the most stable and advanced civilization outside of our own, eventually collapsed. Humanity survived and eventually went on to thrive once again, doing even better this time. By the historical timeline of the birth and death of civilizations, America is long overdue for a collapse. Maybe we’re about to see a global change that will reset our predicament and give us another chance to succeed. If we can learn from our past.

I just wish I could see how life goes on without me. How our world changes in the future beyond my limited time on this planet. I think about people who lived hundreds of years ago. How they couldn’t even imagine the scientific and technological advancements that we have. And then I think about hundreds of years into the future. What changes will be so extreme and advanced that I can’t even imagine it today? I wish there was some way for me to glimpse into that future and see where society is heading. Will we expand out to the stars? Will we be extinct long before we leave this planet? What’s the ultimate future for humanity? These are questions I want to know, but will never get a chance to find out, unless everyone but me dies out in the next 30-40 years. And I highly doubt that’s gonna happen.