Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

A thing I love is USAians trying to justify all prices in a store being shown without tax with "well, you'd need different shelf labels in every store because the taxes are so different everywhere! that would be impossible!"

Mate, I worked in a supermarket in the department that handled shelf labels

There was a printer in every store

When anyone needs a shelf label, they go and print one out

It's not hard

alternative marketing campaign for a scheme based near the sea: "serfs up!"

at some point people will try to sell us on some neo-feudalist thing with the promise that we'll all be "chillen like villeins"

Here's a watch that came out recently that's not got much attention, the Elliot Brown Holton Professional

Designed with the help of, and issued to, a military unit who the rumour mill says may or may not be based in Poole and may or may not spend a lot of time in canoes

"Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime retires, Bowser named new president" is a much more fun headline if you don't know there's a bloke called "Doug Bowser"

I've been told that I could run a modestly successful stall at a craft fair selling these and various other things wot I make out of dead tree

ironically I really don't have the spoons for such an endeavour

makin more spoons

@maple HAPPY BIRFDAY!

🎉 🎉

One month until Baselworld!

(big watch industry event, basically christmas for watch nerds)

Apparently Putin is now threatening the US with new ultra high tech "underwater nuclear drones"

Torpedoes

Underwater drones are torpedoes

Those have been about for a while

account sign-ups only available once every 29.5 days

with all the planned manned missions to the moon have someone sneak a little server up there

MOON TOOTS

Project idea: fediverse instance in a cubesat

TOOT IN SPACE

Oh, apparently Kellogs are stockpiling Pringles in case of a no-deal brexit

https://uk.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-kellogg/kellogg-stocks-up-on-pringles-cereals-for-fear-of-hard-brexit-idUKL3N2095GN

we won't have any medical supplies but we'll still be able to buy Pringles, how fucking comforting

Oh god, I reminded myself of this

http://nomoreteabags.com/

*angry british octopus grumblings*

A time traveller from the 2000's visits a modern software company

traveller: all your laptops have 32 GB of RAM in them?! Your devs must be doing some really heavy stuff, what the hell do they need all that memory for?

guide: web browsing.

traveller: ...you fukken wat mate?

the spam bots promoting gentlemen's clubs that turn up round here always seem to be promoting gentlemen's clubs in perth

why are they always in perth?

mastodon: the only place I've ever found where you can shit-talk early 20th-century aviation enthusiasts and people know what the hell you're on about