marketers are some of the worst people on the planet and the world would be universally better off if they were all jettisoned into the sun.

So we can officially declare social media a mistake now, right? Like the verdict is in?

They did the chef dirty in the newest Muppets show.

You know the saying: There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters but there are no old, bold, mushroom hunters.

Patton Oswalt has his share of “Funny costar on an innocuous CBS sitcom draws wrong crowd at comedy show” stories as well.

That is why my next big investment might actually be in land, I own property, but not the kind that you can live on.

I realize I was borderline using it as an insult, and won’t do that again.  because it’s not. 

I hadn’t heard of that, so I googled them. The beginning of their Wikipedia article:

My first thought was very much “Aww, poor guy has been in the house so long he’s begun designing chocolate chips.”

I think I the reaction is because this is yet another tech bro who thinks he’s a “genius” because he came up with a “perfect” solution to a problem which doesn’t exist.

I was already irrationally angry, fully on principle, with a person I have never heard of and then came this; “we’re proud to have optimized the chocolate chip eating experience” and now I’m willing to do jail time in advance so I’m given the opportunity to deliver an unannounced kick to this guy’s groin with a steel-t…

And, EVEN worse, the food that is provided is just more of the same food responsible for our obesity epidemic. Every time someone proposes making healthier, non-processed alternatives on-site, the administrators just throw their hands up in the air and say it can’t be done. And maybe it can’t for what the government…

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Worse - a society that *can* but chooses not to. The U.S. has fallen out of the first world by choice.

Oh man, Fallout 4... You forgot “write the great novel of mankind” in there.

I read an interview with Miyamoto in a 90's issue of a Swedish gaming magazine and I clearly remember the reporter being shown an early alpha build featuring Luigi.

this lands like a normal news post, a load of stuff in a single article, but every single tweet and mention in this post would have been its own news story if leaked individually.

Nope, not good. Poke bowl experiment is a failure

Oftentimes I think this timeline isn’t the one wherein the Cold War didn’t trigger nuclear armageddon. It is and we’re in purgatory.

30,000 words per month at 5 cents per word comes out to $18,000 per year. That’s meager no matter where you live in the US. And that of course is assuming a consistent 30,000 words per month with no breaks at all.