Yeah that’s a stupid way to build towns and cities, and should change. But the south tends to vote Republican, so that’s just going to make everything worse. (Not that Democrats are amazing, but it’s like squares and rectangles.)

Most people here have probably stopped using reddit. Getting most people to stop is so difficult. Not even this would move the needle.

Only if you’re still browsing fridge websites!

I feel like contextual ads, where you serve ads based on the surrounding content instead of who the individual user is would be about as effective and tremendously less expensive, complicated, and invasive.

Run football ads on football websites. Run music ads on music websites. That’s how it works in TV, radio, and so on and has for years.

Sometimes the word “Interesting” causes my brain to recall the character generation in Morrowind. The guy says something like ““Interesting. Now before I stamp these papers, make sure this information is correct.””

Conservatism, mostly.

Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.

Just remove all violent people first

There are state sanctioned kidnappings in the middle of the day. It’s not safe here.

Plus, something like 20-40% of people are proudly pro trump. That’s a lot of idiots and selfish turds. They’re not all concentrated in Texas and Florida, either. I see a trump flag on one of my regular walks in Brooklyn

Gop is like a clock where only the minute hand is stopped and the hour hand is flapping all over. Sometimes it’s kind of correct, but not for the bigger picture.

Reminds me of the “Last Call Cats” art set that I really like.

Not finding the original but here they are in coaster form https://arnamiller.com/products/drunk-cat-coasters

Is this the latest form of a passive-aggressive insult to “win” an grammar argument?

Ok, I apologize because reading that back that sounded extremely passive aggressive but I did mean it sincerely. The sentence quoted seemed natural to me, but I could imagine someone whose native language was something else might find it odd. I butcher pronouns in French all the time (though I’m nowhere near fluent).

Did you reply to the wrong message?

So you mean this section?

I taught at a place called Bowdoin College for 16 years, and during the last of those there was a student in attendance you’ve perhaps heard of.

This didn’t even register as unclear or unusual. Obviously “those” refers to years. Are you a native English speaker?

By contrast I found it refreshing compared to the usual 6th grade level found online and in the news.

And the ultra rich would deserve to lose everything

Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they’re gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.

One time in a game of DND the players were exploring a strange cave system, and found a strange thick goo collecting in a pool. Players being players, one of them decided to eat some.

It was, in my notes, some sort of celestial honey made by these extra planar insects that were causing some of the region’s problems. It was supposed to taste amazing, but with some drawbacks. I started to blank when trying to describe how good it was, and the phrase that came out was “it’s like… It’s like … it’s like seven pizzas!”

The player eating it, his eyes lit up and was like “AMAZING”

The other players were like “wat”

I think that adequately captured how delicious it is but also maybe you shouldn’t be eating it.

There was an article on a tech news site recently about how to unshittify windows. Just like 4 pages of stuff to turn off and uninstall.

People in the comments unsurprisingly were like “Linux is free and getting better all the time”. People were mad. So mad.

If you are using sudo all the time something has gone wrong

I briefly toyed with some of the early image generation stuff. It was a fun toy for making NPCs for RPGs.

But now it’s everywhere and being used as an excuse to squeeze labor harder and deliver dubious value. If it just stayed as a toy I wouldn’t mind it much. I get annoyed at the aggressive “do you want me to rewrite that for you??” shit that pops up now.