The thing is, if this were actually true in practice, all the medium earners (say 50k to 10 million) in NYC would leave and go back to small towns and cities. People may say they want to be the big fish in a small pond, but in practice, they stay here.

I feel exactly like this, as a writer in a different field. Your problem (and mine) is, you got near the top of the ladder with your friends... but then you moved to a different ladder.

I'm a little like that. But I do think that it's important to feel in control - even if you're only doing superfluous tasks. You have to BOTH be in control and feel in control, and the latter may not necessarily result from the former. It took doing a bunch of stupid busywork (checking my accounts way more often than…

I've never looked at the impostor syndrome that way before! I thought of it as almost purely a negative thing, which I think it is for me. Maybe I can channel it in another direction..

I like this, and I've done it for years. Give everybody a second chance, and then a third, and don't stop. And be very tolerant, because usually someone is just having a bad day, or year.

I am very pleased to see that Classical Languages wasn't on the list. Greek and Latin, keep passively earning me income!

Second Amendment Hedgehog

Unless Steampunk Lincoln is a secret character!

Wow. I love this. I'm going to follow it. Follow it with my fingers and read it with my eyes.

My favorite part of this is that Luke clearly spends a lot of time on Miiverse. As one should.

Concept art for Guns of the Patriots?

I agree that's the way the world works. But I think we should struggle to change that, at least starting with ourselves. That's why I try not to judge people for what they wear (in this case, I actually don't care, but sometimes it's harder) as best I can... but yea, it's still a very powerful influence on our…

I agree, the union provides a lot of value. It just has some big problems too. But it is very much still necessary, as unions will always be.

That is definitely the union's reasoning, and it is sound in theory.. but in practice, it benefits established union members and established employers at the cost of two groups that I care about a lot more:

Humans groom themselves for exactly two reasons:

I can back them up. You are projecting heteronormative standards for how "men" should dress. You seem pretty hung up on people looking "normal." Who are you to set such standards?

This really made me afraid that Bobsplosion is that computer program that passed the Turing Test in that article that I certainly didn't read.

There is no way in hell that was up to them.

Picture this. Master Chief in Mario Kart. On the Yoshi Bike.

I think it's only a matter of time until they get a legit platformer together.