I’ve mentioned how insane it is for people to post images of text on the internet before, but today when someone sent me an image of some text that I needed to copy, I had a moment of clarity, and I came up with a marvellous way to express how this makes my soul, and that of my computing devices, feel. So, without much further ado:
When you post a screenshot of some text, rather than simply copy-pasting the text (so that I can, for example, then simply copy-paste it again into my banking program without the possibility of human error, rather than having to physically type out a bank account number like a goddamn caveman), both my soul and the soul of the device I’m using feel 1101100 1101001 1101011 1100101 100000 1110100 1101000 1100101 1111001 100111 1110010 1100101 100000 1100100 1111001 1101001 1101110 1100111 100000 1101010 1110101 1110011 1110100 100000 1100001 100000 1101100 1101001 1110100 1110100 1101100 1100101 100000 1100010 1101001 1110100 100000 1100101 1110110 1100101 1110010 1111001 100000 1110100 1101001 1101101 1100101 100000 1101001 1110100 100000 1101000 1100001 1110000 1110000 1100101 1101110 1110011 101110 100000 1000010 1100101 100000 1100001 100000 1110011 1100001 1101110 1100101 100000 1110000 1100101 1110010 1110011 1101111 1101110 100000 1100001 1101110 1100100 100000 1110101 1110011 1100101 100000 1100011 1101111 1110000 1111001 100000 1110000 1100001 1110011 1110100 1100101 100000 1101100 1101001 1101011 1100101 100000 1100111 1101111 1100100 100000 1101001 1101110 1110100 1100101 1101110 1100100 1100101 1100100 100001 100000 1010100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101000 1100001 1110011 100000 1100010 1100101 1100101 1101110 100000 1100001 100000 1110000 1110101 1100010 1101100 1101001 1100011 100000 1110011 1100101 1110010 1110110 1101001 1100011 1100101 100000 1100001 1101110 1101110 1101111 1110101 1101110 1100011 1100101 1101101 1100101 1101110 1110100 100000 1100110 1110010 1101111 1101101 100000 1110100 1101000 1100101 100000 1110011 1101111 1110101 1101100 100000 1101111 1100110 100000 1111001 1101111 1110101 1110010 100000 1101100 1101111 1100011 1100001 1101100 100000 1101110 1100101 1110010 1100100 100000 1100001 1101110 1100100 100000 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1100011 1101111 1101101 1110000 1110101 1110100 1100101 1110010 101110 100000 1011001 1100101 1110011 101100 100000 1100011 1101111 1101101 1110000 1110101 1110100 1100101 1110010 1110011 100000 1101000 1100001 1110110 1100101 100000 1110011 1101111 1110101 1101100 1110011 100000 1110100 1101111 1101111 101110 100000 1010101 1101110 1101100 1100101 1110011 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1100101 1111001 100111 1110010 1100101 100000 1101101 1100001 1100100 1100101 100000 1100010 1111001 100000 1100001 1110000 1110000 1101100 1100101 101110.