Maybe there’s more to it, but based on what’s written here, on a scale from 1 to “button under your desk that locks the door,” this is a 1. Words having meaning, but you also have to factor in intent when determining how egregious something is. Are we really to the point where we’re doing this middle school…

I absolutely respect why content warnings exist, but in a story like this, where it’s just mentioned as a plot point and not described in any way, doesn’t the content warning have the same amount of triggering content as the actual article? Does the warning help? 

Nothing about this story actually exhibits any toxic behavior though. I work at a small game company, and have worked at several before, and people always joke in a similar matter. If it goes too far and people recognize that then it’s stopped. The kind of “chats” listed above are out of context and could easily be…

You at least entered the DiGiorno contest, right?
You can’t win if you don’t play. I’ve won just enough contests in my life to be able to say that people actually win this stuff, and it doesn’t hurt to put your name in the hat.

This. Walk-in traffic is much higher than drive-in traffic can be. They should get bridge-loans if needed, for the meantime though.

Yup....my wife and I could probably both commute to and from work on the Indiana Interurban lines, if they still existed. It pisses me off every time I think about them.

“How dare you do something that will help me in the long-term but inconveniences me in the short-term?!?”

Let’s see...how often do street construction projects in a city affect those businesses on those streets? Oh that’s right: all of them.

This happened in cities all over the country. Most street car lines were privately owned. Companies like General Motors started buying up lines and shutting them down so they could push buses. Now a lot of people (including myself) wish the rail lines were still around. 

I came here to say something similar. Trolley and foot traffic is always better for small businesses than cars. When I am driving through town, I’m looking for pedestrians, bikes, other drivers, etc. The last thing I’m looking at is the businesses. But if I’m walking, I see them all!

We had a similar situation in Kansas City a few years ago, when we built our streetcar line right down the middle of a busy downtown street lines with high profile shop and restaurants. In the short term it was not much fun for businesses that were impacted, but in the long run it’s been a huge boon — the streetcar…

Literally no one cries more than fucking small business owners unless its farmers. Cry more newb..itll be fine. 

I bet it will work out great for the people who buy the storefronts that go under this year. I suspect that the rent on those storefronts next to the Streetcar track will go way up.

Riker: THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL, JEAN-LUC

She kept that ship going without being able to go back to spacedock. 

I’m hoping that Strange New Worlds gives us an optimistic adventure show instead of we have to save the world and only I can do it of the current live action trek shows.

I’m of two minds on the episodic nature of Voyager (and TNG). Yeah, the very format demanded that interesting plotlines be abandoned without fully exploring them, but the show did eventually settle into a semi-stable “episodic with overarching themes” season format.

You sort of have that with Prodigy now.  Granted its a kid friendly version of things, but it is fairly similar premise.

Not quite the Lifehacker of old... things are running downhill.

*sigh* I can’t believe I clicked for this crap.