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There are apps specifically to prevent this sort of behavior. Many of them can be configured to chide the person for not repsecting boundaries. My favorite was one I had back in the Android 4.x days which took selfies of the holder, inevitably up their nose at an unflattering angle, if they kept trying to swipe. For some reason people were always ready to stop and hand the phone back in a big hurry once that was happening.

I certainly do. I store mine along with my cable tester in a Beretta pistol case because it confuses people.

That, and I dunno. The older I get the more I start to agree that maybe lots of motherfuckers really shouldn’t be trusted with technology.

The Brotherhood’s original intentions were more or less sound, it’s just that like with all religious and quasi-religious organizations the internal power structure and rituals eventually became more important than the mission, and as everyone kind of went whackadoodle as a result the whole thing rather went off the rails.

I’m not saying that other platforms, in particular Windows, are not also crap. Just that Apple users themselves act extra special about it.

Well, that and Apple is unique in the computer hardware world in having a horde of sycophants clinging to their coattails all the time, all just itching for a chance to argue with people over any perceived slight or insult to their chosen computer platform, of all the damn silly things. This makes it an awful lot of fun to razz them over it.

This is certainly down to Apple being a much more successful marketing company than computer manufacturer. For a significant portion of their customer base, the ownership of an iDevice is jewelry; a status symbol, or a token of inclusion among the “in” crowd. Its actual function is incidental.

Indeed, holding the pair of scissors from this column.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go tend to this wall in my basement. You know how it is.

Ooh! Ooh! Are we doing JTHM again? That means I get to post this picture one more time:

You should try opening my heat treating kiln when it’s been cooking at 1875° F.

Don’t stand too close if you’re wearing clothing made of synthetic fibers.

It still is, but nobody cares anymore. At 16:9 1920x1080 is considered “Full High Definition,” and 3840x2160 (at minimum) is “Ultra High Definition,” at least in terms of their official marketing speak. The latter has mutated to include both 4K and 8K content somehow, apparently because the brainworms in the marketing department ran out of superlatives after “Ultra.”

And here is someone who has absolutely at some point in history modified the source code to GORILLAS.BAS.

And 867-5309.

What, like cable television?

Ah, yes. I see you are working on an Audi.

If you believe the Mock Turtle, there certainly is.

Ok.

I like the ones we have around here waiting at the bus stops on our main boulevard which is a perfectly straight road you can see up and down for about a mile and a half in either direction, but who will stand out in the travel lanes and craaaane their necks in this ridiculous pose apparently hoping this will allow them to see the bus coming sooner.

Well, you can always give this a shot.

They very often could be, in the later years. Except when they couldn’t.