They’re happy to say that younger folks should be okay with it, but as soon as they’re faced with it, it’s suddenly a tragedy?

Horse shit. Fuck anyone gaslighting the value of housing security. I hope their home value turns to dust.

Two-wheel style car, or motorcycle? Sir, this is clearly a tomato pie.

I wouldn’t word it with absolutes, but yeah that sentiment is correct.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardmcgahey/2020/11/13/the-red-blue-economic-divide-cities-keep-winning/

Were you older than 12 when you first tried to play it? Because that’d do it.

I was 12 when I played it and I loved it so much that I wrote a convincing essay on why it was the greatest game ever. I then freehand drew the logo as a cover to the essay. I attach a copy on my resume.

A stranger outdoor cat just walked with me for a few blocks on my way home from a dinner party. It was fun to have a five minute feline friend. It’s sad to know they will very likely die long before my indoor cat of a similar age.

Thanks for the link. Good read so far.

While we’re throwing out Qanon dissections, Gabriel Gatehouse’s The Coming Storm is a wild listen. I heard about it when he guest interviewed on Jon Stewart’s The Problem. The stuff he said there was so interesting that I checked out the podcast. Gabriel’s moved on from BBC now, but I’m eager for more of his reporting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bc3rjy

Edit: Oh and how could I forget: HBO’s Q Into the Storm is the best piece out there on this. They’re there interviewing Qanon while at the height of them kicking shit up.

It’s because it doesn’t make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.

If you grew up on 4chan and haven’t read It Came From Something Awful, I highly recommend it. It lays out how gamergate was the inflection point. It also makes the case that counter culture is now forever dead. Makes you feel pretty bad about things, actually. It feels pretty correct though.

Also, it’s an incredible anticonsumerism piece. If you ever feel like you can no longer fight the machine, this book tells you that you’re not alone.

To work at a Denny’s for minimum wage? Get real. The jobs are where housing is expensive.

Seems to really stretch the term “humane” thin. There are a dozen simple examples that poke holes in this wide net. What about killing someone who is willing to die trying kill you? What about someone currently on a suicidal killing spree (as happens once a day at a school)? What about the millions of animals raised for slaughter everyday? All that is the same category as a painless dispatch and a torturous murder?

Being humane is about how you do something given the choice. It has nothing to do about the absolute action.

Please read Consider the Lobster.

https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/readings/lobster_dfwallace.pdf

Tungsten is very dense. It is space efficient.

There are certainly more humane ways. Would you consider drowning or burning someone equivalent to lethal injection? That doesn’t sit right with anyone.

You’re thinking about this wrong. Cops can’t pull you over for speeding if they’re stuck going 45 mph.

Palworld didn’t plagiarize them. This is what the kids call a nothingburger.

Obviously there are loads of similar designs, but in a way that indicates illegal asset stealing? That’s a different question, and so-called “lazy design” aping on other creations doesn’t qualify as actual theft unless it can be explicitly proven.

More grimly, it is a big corporation trying to squash an upstart competitor and suppress art. If they succeed then it is truly dystopian and a sign that we need more legal protections against overzealous copyright litigators.

By Freaky Friday rules you would just be giving them another identity to send in affirming reports.

This is a good idea if they only put it in public service government issue cars.

Hanging chads pt II coming this Winter

They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It’s working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google’s best efforts. It’s a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world’s richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world’s richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.

This was many years ago. The itching didn’t happen immediately. Good advice to not take medical advice in social media comments.