*vital aid

You don't wanna get support that somehow kills you. :)

board room filled with parasites

"Ssssss, the humanssss are coming for our jobssssss!"

Russia is doing what no other country could do - Westernizing Ukraine.

"Caribbean pirates are BACK on the menu, boys!"

The Roku box was one of the good ones... about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.

In the past few years especially, I've seen so many unshakable "good ones" go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.

A part of me thinks he knows what he's doing.

Restarted, the Star Wars have.

Oil rig drillers?

"Your tactics confuse and frighten me, Sir."

cups side of face in my hand

Say it ain't so!

I still have my original Happy Fun Ball. I ignored their stupid recall, I don't care that it's almost completely melted through its original lead carrying case.

Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone's hardware.

That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren't just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

And then they went from "should not even be working" test units to fully functional production units in six months!

Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.