psivchaz

For a long time, I've just assumed this was a weird way that my bipolar and my bisexuality interacted. Is this just a normal human thing?!

Please don't say Trump is in decline. Plenty of people thought Trump had no chance of winning in 2016. He is a serious threat and should be treated like one until at least 10 years after his death.

The idea of being able to make tunnels faster and cheaper is super exciting, though there's some serious doubt that is actually what was accomplished. Still, maybe if it works out a better company can mimic it more efficiently.

I think a lot about this sci-fi race in an Anne McCaffrey book that put most of their infrastructure underground to preserve the natural beauty of their planet. I want that for us so bad. I mean, we can still have buildings and such above ground but imagine if transport was almost exclusively underground, the amount of space we'd save for building things we actually use and the amount of wildlife we'd preserve.

This feels like bad data to me. Don't get me wrong, I support it. It's just that if you're going to determine if the raise in wages "took" jobs, it's not whether there was a gain at all but rather how California fares compared to other states, right?

That is, if restaurants went on a massive hiring frenzy country-wide due to an increase in fast food consumption everywhere, but other states had a much larger increase, it would suggest though not prove that the increase in wages caused fast food restaurants to hire less actively in California.

I suspect that's not the case, but I just don't like passing off incomplete data as proof of something.

I like async but dislike await. I spend entirely too much time on everything I build trying to maximize how much I can do in parallel because I find it tremendously satisfying.

I'm more irritated that so many people use his disability as an "excuse." If he were the most average, neurotypical boy in the world, it would still be perfectly normal and acceptable to get excited and emotional about his father potentially being the next vice president.

I was a Sega kid in the Genesis generation. A friend of mine got a Saturn and I so desperately wanted to like Nights because it was the thing for Saturn. I didn't like it at all. It felt hard to control, hard to understand, and was just not pleasant for me.

Meanwhile, a different friend and I had a blast trading off playing Mario 64. Hands down, way better for a 9 year old me.

Nah, this one has a margin of error. It's just that "take down a large percentage of all computers in the world simultaneously" is quite a bit outside of that margin for a security software.

Overconfident is an understatement. I remember people thinking that Trump was the end of the Republican party, some people actually said that the party would be forced to disband after their crushing defeat in 2016.

Even many Democrats didn't like Hillary, but the idea of Trump winning was outright laughable to many. I think that combination of "I don't want to vote for her" and "there's no way she can lose" left a lot of people at home twiddling their thumbs instead of going out to vote.

We totally did try pure capitalism. It mostly led to naked children in coal mines (because their clothes would get stuck on the sides of the super narrow mining shafts, you see) and pepper with iron fillings (because scrap iron was cheaper than actual pepper). Also a lot of other horrifying stuff, but those two have always stuck out to me.

I keep arguing this and people don't like it. The pain is necessary, we need people to be inconvenienced so they demand we solve the problem. Our greatest enemy is little stopgap solutions that kind of help people now at the cost of their future, like subsidizing oil to make gas prices cheaper.

It really sucks that people who are already having a hard time, people who don't have money or time, are going to be the first to feel the pain. There's definitely things we can do to help, but we all know that at least America isn't going to do those things. I just don't see a better way. Kicking the can down the road isn't going to help them either, it's just going to put them in a worse spot later.

I'm so sorry to have to be the one to tell you but, based on your positions, you're absolutely the crazy uncle. And I wouldn't be surprised if you were drunk when you watched the 93 Super Mario.