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It's actually kind of hilarious to think about Steve Jobs hating Bill Gates so much that he approved multiple ads, including one that played during the Super Bowl, featuring actors that looked like Bill.

@melissasage Like, Bill Gates is obviously trash, but Apple had more than a few ads where the premise was, "Look at this ugly nerd who looks just like Bill Gates!!!!"

(apologies to John Hodgman)

@melissasage Some other endearing traits of Steve Jobs: having a weird hate boner over Bill Gates and using Apple ad campaigns to mock Billy G's appearance, specifically, even tho Steve was also a nerdlinger

@melissasage @marie_joseph@eldritch.cafe And shamelessly bragging while lying and stealing credit for others' acheivements

@melissasage According to urban legend, Steve smelled so bad they put him on the nigh shift at Atari so he would be less offensive to the nostrils of the other workers.

I will dig up a good source later.

@melissasage We also ignored everything his Atari co-workers had to say about him re: washing his stinky ass

Where is the Telegram stickerset for rotund wolf-boys?

On top of all this, the top 2 Billboard Hot 100 singles were

Believe, by Cher

and No Scrubs, by TLC

1999 was the year that the following songs were all released:

1. Mambo No. 5
2. All Star
3. Smooth
4. Nookie
5. Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)
6. Steal My Sunshine
7. Thong Song
8. All the Small Things
9. Livin' The Vida Loca
10. My Name is

I grew up being told that mambo and disco and new wave were corny music, but this was the same era that brought us fucking nu metal. I would 10000% rather listen to campy dance music than that shit

Perez Prado, the god that gifted us the riff from "Mambo No. 5" is genuinely good, tho, and you should listen to him. He does that little yell a lot.

@melissasage Great minds think alike

@melissasage Marx's Capital, one sentence at a time.

Might have to divide it up into each clause at a time, since those sentences can get pretty long, tho

That extra t is there just to remind you of Scarlett O'Hara. Her parents knew her character from birth.