I don’t doubt the damage EM:HE did by way of property taxes and utilities, but I wondered how they caused someone’s mortgage to go up, as you claimed in the third paragraph.

FWIW, it seems like William Murray Golf has ceased and desisted, because I can’t find the ad anywhere.

Wait, can’t you also race Nascar with a beer in one hand?

Oh man, I legit forgot what Michelob even was. I was thinking it was Marlboro and was like “Ew, no, I don’t want to work for a cigarette company, even if it’s something cool.”

I basically agree with everything you’ve said, except that I’d caution against assuming the next-gen games will run “just as well” on old hardware. Of course, that depends on your standards and expectations for performance, but...

I mean, the games will come to PC. Sony just doesn’t want you to know it yet. It’s highly doubtful they actually pulled the plug on the ports, which may already be underway already. It makes much more sense to call it an exclusive so the games will drive console sales, then when they feel that they’ve saturated that…

Are you implying that Justin is on a mission from God? If so, I concur.

I suspect that’s not really the reason you do it. That’s just something you thought of to justify your behavior to yourself.

I once “yelled at” a man for not collecting his dog shit outside of my apartment building (quotes there because it was really just speaking firmly and confidently, not with added volume). And I didn’t just randomly pick the issue because I was looking for a fight. Just the week prior I had stepped in shit getting into…

Perhaps, but most people who are aware of the Wondermark comic do seem to be tracing it back to there. And without a doubt, the concept and practice has spread exponentially since its publication in 2010.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you got this idea from your friend, but to be clear and give due credit, the idea started here:

Yeah, it’s a big thing in the US. Multiple spam calls per day. Most people don’t answer unfamiliar numbers at all anymore, which can be a problem if you’re, say, job hunting.

Actually, it’s relying on one rigorless study that empowers the antivaxxers, which is, incidentally, exactly what Beth is advising against doing in this article.

January 1st of the first or fifth year of your actual birthdate are pretty easy to remember, and as a bonus it’s easier to enter on the ones that use a drop-down list to select the month and day. Just remember to round down on the year, not up, if you’re young enough that it affects whether or not you’re considered an…

Your points about ads and tracking are all valid, but on the point about Google setting the Segment Heap fix to disabled by default, I’m not with you. For one, it’s just a flag, which is easy enough to change yourself by going to chrome://flags and searching for “segment heap,” if that is the best option for you.

That’s fine enough in principle, but some of us rescue our pets rather than strictly buying inbred puppies and kittens from breeders. My first dog had both a fear of people and food aggression issues when adopted. He’s learned to trust us and knows when to expect meals, but we still have issues with him trying to…

I’m sad to say I had basically the same thought on reading this article. I know it’s the right thing to communicate the facts of what research is telling us, but my instinct is that publicly saying anything about how cloth masks may be less effective than we thought is going to cause such a shitstorm that I’d almost…

Oh man, I feel for the person who wrote in on this one. They sound like someone who doesn’t much understand computers, like many of the people I help at work and in my personal life, but that doesn’t mean they should suffer the loss of old family photos.

Agree. I tried to get therapy for my OCD, which is severe and includes incidental self-harm, and on my very first visit they tried to put me on a strong antidepressant. I opted against it, but the cost of in-person therapy was so much higher than the drugs would have been, I’ve had to resort to trying to manage it on…

You’re not fooling anyone, Craig Ferguson. We know that’s you!