@RickiTarr This is somewhat the premise of Thomas M. Disch's The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (no joke)

@RickiTarr Good follow-up to https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/things-used-to-work-in-this-country

@RickiTarr The jet never even exploded in a fireball. 75% survival rate. Another corporate fail.

@RickiTarr SpaceX, Tesla and Boeing…

@RickiTarr I would not refer 1984 as it will be cheap an even incorrect but this definitively comes in my mind from the same author.

@RickiTarr Paperback Paradise is hilarious and so very wrong. 😸 (Folks can find more of Domi’s mock covers on Bluesky among other places, but not as far as I know on Mastodon. A quick Web search should turn up those accounts, interviews and other articles, and the Paperback Paradise Web store.)

@RickiTarr It would be a laugh if the cover art included a man staring at his crotch and his doctor shrugging...

@RickiTarr you should read lighter things, maybe young adult stories.

@RickiTarr Welcome to the cyberpunk dystopia. where you don't get cool things, just corporate autocracy.

@RickiTarr I think the planned obsolescence people deserve special thoughts and prayers against them.

@RickiTarr it all started with printers

@RickiTarr I've said that several times in the past few weeks 

@RickiTarr great work of art.

@RickiTarr The prequel to Don't Build the Torment Nexus

@RickiTarr That's one for the meme folder, lovely!

@RickiTarr @catsalad Fake News! My computer works fi