No. Person sounds like an idiot

People are emotionally invested in meat and that often shuts down any conversation

On the one hand, fuck adams. On the other, I appreciated him splitting the idiot and asshole votes between him and cuomo.

Do you actually do work or are you one of those middle-men that add dubious value?

And, like, do you think I can read my coworker’s screen from across the room and be like “Ah yes, that is TransferProjectView.py. I should tell him that I am also planning on touching that file”?

And adults can learn to explicitly communicate. It’s not impossible. You just type into the box.

I don’t think microsoft understands shit. I think their leaders are out of touch, lying, idiots. They continue to exist based on inertia and past success.

It’s frustrating because management are so colossally, transparently, stupid but they get the big paychecks and the workers get fucked. And then like half the workers sit there going “Well this is just and fair. this is a good world. If the people actually doing the work had more of a say, that’s communism and thus axiomatically bad”

Without thinking about it too hard, the binding of Isaac. I like how when you unlock the tainted characters, when you flip to that menu the song changes to a different version. It’s the same song, but creepier.

I don’t think markdown wraps codeblocks by default, since code can be whitespace sensitive.

when I used to commute, before the pandemic, I read so many books and finished so many games during those two hours a day of transit on the train. Doing that by car would have been so much worse.

Off topic nitpick: If you use > for quotes instead of triple backticks, it wraps the text better (at least in firefox)

Yes. Driving too slow on a highway can be dangerous. This graphic is not suggesting you drive 50% of the speed limit. It’s advocating for not speeding.

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Yes. Driving too slow on a highway can be dangerous. This graphic is not suggesting you drive 50% of the speed limit. It’s advocating for not speeding.

> is typically for quotes, and the backticks for code, too.

I think some people are bad at reading through no real fault of their own. Then they feel, consciously or subconsciously, embarrassed and angry when they try.

I also think a lot about a woman I knew that was like “analysis is stupid. Sometimes a story is just a story!”, and that was very strange to me. I asked some more questions, and she said she hated how in school they were always reading and being told to find the secret meaning. I was like, your education failed you. The game isn’t find the meaning. The game is finding a meaning you can support in the text.

Like, Dracula can just be a book about a dude that bites people. But you can also look at it and be like “hmm so these women abandon their ‘motherly’ duties of raising children and staying in the home, and the only way to ‘fix’ them is for some men to hold her down and penetrate her with a big piece of wood? Hmmm”

But, also, you don’t have to think hard about everything you read. You don’t analyze every TV show, even though you could.

It’s nice not having to ever worry about car stuff. I just have to worry about this high horse instead.

Other people already gave most of the answers, but

Parks. Go for a walk. Play a game with folks (Frisbee, soccer, whatever). Ride a bike. Read.

Meetups. I go to a tabletop RPG one. That’s not unique to cities, but I can walk to this one and there are probably more people attending than you’d find in a less populous area. I also used to go to a basic neighborhood hangout one. There are many others.

The library is free. Many books and other media to enjoy.

This city has beaches. It’s $3 for the subway ride there , or if I was really broke I could ride a bike.

There are free museums. I don’t go that often but they’re interesting.

But also

And to make it worse many of them probably have a 1 bedroom apartment so its not like you can sit in there all day long (at least i cant).

I realize im still spending money by being in my house out of town, but still, at least things I buy are owned by me, and im not paying someone else every time I want to do anything. If I want to stay at home all day I have tons of stuff to occupy my mind without going nuts.

I don’t think I accept this premise. I stay home in my one bedroom without any more trouble than when I lived in the suburbs. A computer full of games doesn’t need a lot of rooms. I have plenty of entertainment here. I don’t see what’s stifling about a one bedroom. Maybe a tiny studio I could see. But even so, when I lived in a whole house it’s not like I went skipping from room to room.

I memorized my friend’s phone number. It’s because she’s a lawyer, and that seems like a good number to have memorized.

Pretty much every conservative idea is bad.

Watters is a piece of shit and he doesn’t deserve his wealth and peace.

“divisive” is such a weird complaint. It ignores the value of whatever people disagree on. As if being divided on “pizza or burritos” is just as bad as “should women be allowed outside”.

Conservatives say stuff for effect, not because they believe in truth or consistency. They are dishonest, broken, people. They should not be trusted.

Poor emotional regulation. Poor long term planning. Disregarding facts for emotions.

Conservatives would hate it so it’s probably a good idea