These mechanics are specifically designed to exploit unstable/impulsive people like this guy.

I do it just to irritate folks with post histories like yours—as it’s almost exclusively the “defend my right to be an asshole” types who feel the need to tone police others. ;)

Do you lecture everyone you talk to or only on the internet?

Those foosball tables in corporate headquarters aren't free!

“There can only be one contributor to problems"

As long as we have homeless, frivilous green space is theft

I prefer density with shared greenspace personally but that’s just not the American way.

“I live in a city but still prefer the trappings of the landed Gentry over housing density."

I mean I live in a city and also have a backyard and a grill but ok.

No human lives like a human being if their food options can be summed up as “Cheesecake Factory, Chili’s, or Olive Garden.”

I find it amazing that they are unable to turn a profit when they take 25% from every ride and their only overhead is—or at least could be—a fucking app.

This. Both companies are just trying to get to a point where they can cut paying people altogether. Or pivot to scooter rentals and helicopter rides. One of those things

Learn the multi-purpose word sumimasen

Counterpoint - in a race to the fucking bottom, everyone loses.  Except for those who run the show.

I think the point is that if you’re doing something useful and reasonably difficult for 40 or more hours a week it should provide a living wage.

The whole term ride “sharing” has always baffled me. Who are you sharing a ride with? The person driving is not going to your destination. Unless you are in the car with another person going the same way you are, you’re still one person taking one car to a location. How are emissions due to your trip halved, as the…

One of the things that impresses me the most is how CCP acts towards the players. For example here, not only were they happy to check and confirm she’d visited every player-accessible system, they also went and pulled her into the one non-player-accessible system in the game so that she’d really been to every system.…

you summed up so many people’s feelings with this, including my own.

Man this is great.

For the purposes of the irony, it doesn’t matter what her achievements are—she may well have stellar grades and extracurriculars that got her into USC, she may not, but crowing that your kid got into USC “all on her own” a few years after you donated $70 million to USC is in bad taste.