Yeah, the bros are the guys running the startups, not the ones working for them.

Yeah, it got crazier as it went on. About the first third read like one of those well-meaning but clueless "well actually, what's wrong with meritocracy?" blog comments you find on tech sites all the time. The second third (when it starts proposing "solutions") quickly did away with any assumption of "well-meaning".…

Not so bad that he couldn't steal millions of dollars.

"Securities" refers to stock and other investment instruments. Insider trading is a type of securities fraud, for instance. He's specifically accused of lying to investors about the financial position of investment funds he operated, as well as using money invested in one of his pharmaceutical companies to pay for his…

It's one of the more elaborate examples of this type of LP gimmick, but it's common for threads with strategy games to be written as faux histories. (There's actually forums for various grand strategy and war games entirely dedicated to narrative/historical writing about gameplay.)

I have that disc somewhere. Didn't know it was rare.

2006's Superman Returns (the tie-in game for the movie) actually had an invulnerable Superman, and it's Metropolis itself that has a damage meter. It can be damaged either by the enemies you're fighting or by Superman himself if you use his powers carelessly. I think Zack Snyder must have played that game and was so…

Nice.

I was trying to head off the "is this a joke?" routine.

There has been at least one time in my life where I was eating a hamburger, watching a football game, drinking cheap beer, and having an animated conversation about universal health care. I'm not even a big sports fan myself, but I know tons of liberal-to-left people who are. I know a number of left-wing vegans but I…

I love that two minutes later an actual Trumpie wrote essentially this same comment.

Even the times in my life where someone who had seen my penis in person asked me to send a picture of it to them I was like… "really? are you sure?"

We've got a live one here:

In some areas you have to be an NRA member to use shooting ranges, too. It's a holdover from the era where the NRA provided gun safety training materials and the like, as opposed to being a lobbying organ for the gun industry.

It's an old "warblogger" term that referred to the tendency of certain people to write line-by-line refutations of articles by the journalist Robert Fisk, who opposed the Iraq War. It used to be fairly common in the liberal blogosphere as well but the term's mostly fallen into disuse, and it was always a thing of…

I never fail to be amused by people who write big right-wing think pieces where one of the central assumptions is that liberals hate football and hamburgers and such.

As someone who has fired guns but doesn't really like them, and who believes in reasonable gun control, I have absolutely no problem with people like you. And I think people that range from somewhere around me to somewhere around you are the majority of Americans. There's a tiny handful of people who want to ban all…

Shit, unless Red Dawn happened while I wasn't paying attention, that is your prerogative as a free person.

Yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Really? That's a shame. I'm not going to be one of those people who are all "pssh, real Portlanders don't like Voodoo, only tourists go there", because they have two locations that are constantly busy and it's not all tourists. But they really are more of a tourist destination than a serious donut shop; everything…