Literally nobody ever. It’s just a dog whistle to get around the fact that if you straight-up advocate lynching, Twitter might someday eventually possibly get around to banning you maybe (if enough people flag it and it gets covered by a few influential blogs).

My boss used a great one today: crafting an email. Get over yourself, dude. You’re a middle manager, not a craftsman.

How is “open the kimono” not immediately flagged by HR in this day & age?

Ohhh, you’re an AnCap. No, anarcho-capitalism cannot ever work. You need the state (or a nonstate force sufficiently statelike to eliminate any meaningful difference) to enforce private property rights.

Anarchism does work in practice. It just doesn’t work for very long because the conservatives and/or Marxist-Leninist-Maoists murder all the anarchists. Without counterrevolutionaries and authoritarian communists mucking it up, it’d work just fine. (A bit like communism in general: we have no models for how well it…

Did somebody say police?

The internet as we know it evolved on phone lines on which ISPs leased bandwidth from the telecoms. They had competitors, so they had to innovate service and lower prices. Those ISPs are now extinct. The new ISPs have their own infrastructure and no competitors, with a multibillion-dollar infrastructure moat (along…

Companies don’t care about bad press unless it can affect them. Since there is no competition among ISPs, you can complain until the cows come home and it won’t make any difference. And thanks to the multibillion-dollar infrastructure moat, I wouldn’t hold my breath on this new player ever coming to town.

Yes, companies often spend millions of dollars lobbying for rule changes they don’t intend to take advantage of.

Pity it isn’t fatal.

It’s OK. This article is obviously a liberal conspiracy to wussify American Nazis, so we can safely assume they will continue to drink it regardless.

Thanks to my company’s constant pursuit of the new next new now new exciting new productivity/culture/branding exercise, this is almost my literal job description.

So it’ll be even more of an open-world inventory management simulator. How exciting.

But will the produce be counterfeit?

This is the best advice. Things change, generational differences exist (you will not find anyone under 40 in Seoul who gives a shit whether your hands are in your pockets), and English-speaking writers miss or misinterpret things. Do your best and learn how to at least say “hello,” “please,” “thank you,” and “I’m…

As someone with a diagnosed, oh-god-I’m-gonna-die anxiety disorder (along with bipolar II and some other fun stuff), I’m on the fence to an extent. I think it’s instructive to people who want to help if you tell them how they can help, and there’s a certain community/dark humor aspect to that type of post. But I’m…

Gotta do something to keep the sheep in line. Nobody’s scared of Zika anymore so we needed something new (old, actually: the DPRK has been doing this for literally its entire existence, but luckily for TPTB Americans can’t remember anything farther back than 4 years). I HATE Trump but I’m also not dumb enough to buy…

It’s “selfish” for me to use the seat the way it was designed, but it is somehow not selfish for the asshole behind me to insist that I don’t use it that way because he (but not I) will be more comfortable if I don’t.

This is interesting because in my company I’ve experienced the exact opposite thing. I don’t like being touched in any intimate manner by any except my very closest friends and family (handshakes are fine) and my coworkers are well aware of this. But three of my female coworkers, two of whom outrank me and one of whom…

Counterpoint: Don’t listen to fuddy-duddys who are stuck in the 1950s. Wear those shorts and wear them proudly.