Would it be so bad if it follows the same path as Twitter? If it connects people and organizations in an honest and helpful way for fifteen years?

Or we could all just keep shitting on it while it facilitates social and political movements and enables rapid communication across the planet. Then more than a decade from now when some Ultra-Nazi trillionaire buys it, we can all say “I told you so,” and be real smug about it.

The HOA hate is completely overblown online. It’s practically clickbait at this point. Just a framework for petty neighbour stories to entertain reddit teenagers with no real world experience.

I fell for it at first, and when my wife and I started looking for houses, I specified no HOAs. We saw a couple of houses that didn’t have HOAs, and then I realized that while I personally would prefer not to be in an HOA, I really, really want my neighbors to be in one.

So we got a house with an HOA. It was a gated community of small houses in a bad neighborhood. The HOA handled trash pickup, maintenance of common areas, what little landscaping we had, and a couple other things that we wouldn’t want to deal with on our own. Sometimes they’d hire a security guard to deter package theft. They charged a little more than I’d like to pay, but overall it was a positive experience. They sent us a letter once saying we had to replace our door. We didn’t. Nothing ever came of it. And to be fair, they were right; that door is in terrible shape.

Now I live in a different neighborhood with a different HOA. Sometimes they send us an annoying letter saying I can’t leave my trash cans out. It’s a minor inconvenience. Overall another positive experience.

The vast majority of HOAs are fine. You don’t hear about those because that’s not entertaining. It’s silly to think that the stories about petty old busybodies would be the norm.

You’ve never seen a cockroach in a restaurant? I’m guessing you live somewhere cold, because in warm places cockroaches are just a part of life. I’ll still avoid anyplace I’ve seen a cockroach, but it’s not like those places get shut down. They just need to up their pest control.

The joy of working from home is that my work time becomes shitpost time, and my shitpost time becomes leisure time.

Does the drug cost me two hours that I could be using to do something fun or productive?

Makes sense. It seems like Motorola is always trying to innovate and then it just doesn’t catch on. I still say it’ll be standard one day.

Invention that will seem obvious after it’s introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.

Invention that’s not obvious but I’m sure it’s a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!

That’s why he said start with Google Translate. Because Google Translate isn’t giving gibberish like vegetative electron microscopy.

Say what you will about Biden

I held my nose voting for him, but Biden was the best president of my lifetime.

You’re right, but there’s value in saying it.

I agree with what you’re saying, philosophically. A group is just a framework we put around individuals. That’s how it works in the real world.

But the idea of being able to have an impact on my own has a special appeal for me personally. It’s not a practical thing, which is why it’s escapism.

Super heroes are an individualist power fantasy. In the real world , real power comes from groups and collective action. Super hero stories imagine a world where the power to do good resides in the individual.

I believe it’s a reaction to our powerlessness in the face of things like this.

YES. Even just waiting for my flight, there’s this pleasant mix of tension and purpose. And I’m not relaxed, per se, but it’s one of the few times in my life when I don’t have a nagging feeling that there’s something else I should be doing.

I’ve just got everything I need, and I’m waiting for something amazing. It’s perfect.

Good for it. Those are both fantastic songs.

Even 30 years later, Black Hole Sun blows my mind. Chris Cornell’s voice walks this impossible line between sounding so full of emotion that it’s about to burst, and sounding somehow soothing and precise.

That’s not even a line that exists to walk; he creates a line that cannot logically exist, just so his voice can walk it.

I never understand when people complain about work travel, because hotels are so enjoyable to me. Like I get wanting to stay home because you’ve got things going on there that make you happy. But if you have to be away, why not go to a magical place that has none of your stuff. What color will the walls be? What will be the pattern on the bedspread? What will it smell like?

All of these answers will be surprises, and none of them will be unpleasant. You were consulted on none of this. It’s all new. I love it.

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.

When people “speak to” a topic. Just say “about”.

It’s the internet hate machine. Everyone has hobbies, and some people’s hobby is to hate things. All kinds of things. Celebrities, sitcoms, children’s movies, but especially video games.

It doesn’t matter what you put into the internet hate machine; the only thing that comes out the other end is hatred. It’s not fact-based or even experience-based. It’s just pure negativity, perpetuated through shitty memes and circle jerk forum comments.

The claim in this meme isn’t even true. It was debunked days ago. Doesn’t matter. It’ll keep getting repeated by people on the internet who copied it from other people on the internet. The definition of a circle jerk.

The internet hate machine has killed lots of good media. It’s a shame to see Nintendo get caught up in it. I hope it doesn’t stick.

It’s not even way too much. Plenty of big games cost that much in the 90s. Accounting for inflation and the fact that games are way more expensive to produce nowadays, $70 is extremely reasonable.

Robot Unicorn Attack was my shit.