That only works if you didn’t start in a messy kitchen. I’ll pour the eggs into the frying pan, but I can’t clean the bowl until the sink is empty. I can’t clear the sink until the dishwasher is empty. I can’t unload the dishwasher until my kids stop hugging my legs.

Damage done. It’s not even good news at this point.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Robot Unicorn Attack was my shit.

He’d be disappointed that he doesn’t end up doing anything epic and world-changing, but then he’d immediately be relieved that he’s mostly got shit figured out. Wife, home, job, driving, cooking, all the basic stuff.

Then he’d realize he only thought he needed to do something epic because he couldn’t picture himself having those basic things figured out. This would take him a few minutes to process, so he wouldn’t say anything.