josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

I was searching the Internet for several old, probably out-of-print books, and I was appaled at the huge amounts of money US bookstores ask for them. Dudes, they are used books, not Picasso paintings! And shipping costs are never included. These alone range between $30 and whatever the fuck they feel like charging you.

Seriously, what kind of people does that? These are not stores. They are terrorists holding books hostage and asking for ransom.

Yo nunca he sido partidiario de subir impuestos a los ricos más allá de un determinado umbral, porque saben cómo esquivarlos. Me parece una mejor idea crear un impuesto a los artículos de lujo, porque eso sí que no pueden evitarlo. Un rico siempre querrá hacer ostentación de su riqueza, y para eso tiene que consumir. Un IVA del, digamos, 40% no le va a detener por la misma razón que la subida del tabaco no hace que la gente deje de fumar. El Estado ingresa y el rico no se queja (tanto), porque al cabo de un tiempo ni lo notará, como nos pasa a todos.

Now that Stadia is shutting down, it is the perfect time to go play a game there until the very moment that they pull the plug on the servers, so you can see if Overlord has any kind of basis in reality.

What happened to @mangeurdenuage? It’s been four days since he last posted something.

I may, or may not, be the only person alive (and I mean really alive) who has read Kibo’s USENET signature in its entirety, and I don’t regret missing any of the 42 minutes I wasted doing it.

¿No os resulta curioso que los periodistas deportivos o los del corazón hagan preguntas más comprometidas que los encargados de política o economía?

Y sí, sé que mi tono sentará mal a algunos y seguirán usando el anglicismo por un sentimiento de rebeldía mal digerido, pero me suda la polla porque llevo razón.

¿Por qué hay gente que usa el término gamificación, que no es más que un anglicismo de lo más ordinario y ramplón, en lugar del mucho más elegante ludificación?

I’m learning MSX-BASIC and I’m finding it so stupid and braindead that I’d much rather write in assembler.

And it’s not that I dislike assembler. I just honestly think it would be easier (both to code and debug), faster and less error-prone than BASIC.

I have to admit my least favourite instance is mastodon.social. There seems to be an 80-20 mix of hollier-than-thou individuals vs just nice people.

I just can’t stand the do-what-i-say attitude of most users there.

Today I finally watched the last Evangelion movie. I’m satisfied and disappointed at the same time.