Somebody on Twitter, in discussing Bean Dad, told a story about how their teacher spent most of a math class writing the measurements of the sides of right triangles on the board and saying, “Notice anything? Notice anything?” and became very upset when it turned out none of the children in the class were able to…

Class solidarity > any other kind of solidarity.

A friend’s mother is a (former) nurse and is spouting the exact same line of crap. “Covid is fake so hospitals and so on can profit.” She’s still blithely riding around the countryside refusing to wear a mask or distance. How she hasn’t gotten it yet is anyone’s guess.

And, per NPR, knowingly injected 57 patients with spoiled, useless vaccine.

Around here (small city/large town, upper midwest, limited job prospects, not close to anything) a $50,000/yr. salary will put you in a two bedroom apartment and might let you rent but not buy a small house. It would take you a long, long time on that salary to save up the $40k-50k expected down payment for a modest…

This is minor, but it was also strange to me that after all the hype they built up about how much style and appearance matter in Night City, it turns out that in-game it actually a) doesn’t matter at all and b) is very hard to exert any control over for any amount of time. What you’re wearing only has stats that…

Yeah, this. It has “Fallout 4 Disease” where the way the game is actually played and best enjoyed is completely at odds with the ‘omg go as fast as you can!!!’ tone of the main plot.

It’s wild to me how it apparently never occurred to corporations or policymakers that by creating such severe wage stagnation that just maintaining a modest household nowadays absolutely requires both adult partners to be working at least one job simply to survive, they were making it nearly impossible for people to…

I wrote this and got an email like four hours later saying they’ve jettisoned a bunch of upper-middle management types and are hiring new ones for a new! Exciting! Pivot! To sales! The jokes write themselves.

“I never saw substantive raises or promotions unless I changed jobs.”

I don’t believe in the death penalty for anyone because I don’t believe there is a possible standard of review that is high enough for the government to be able to take a citizen’s life via execution. However, regardless of how terrible this woman’s life was prior to the murder she committed, if she understood what…

She’s like a T-rex, but with giant boobs instead of a giant head. I admire a lot of his other artwork, but this looks like something a teenager drew, complete with iffy fabric physics, scritchy-scratchy lines, and a too-short forearm. The emperor, in this case, has no clothes.

Our master bath came with a single occupant tub with jets, and I long to rip it out and just have a shower. All it does (no matter how many awful chemicals I run through it to clean it) is grow and then spit out rust-colored stuff and other mysterious crap from the jets. I would never consider taking a bath in the…

Our house technically has four “bedrooms,” three on the first floor and one in the basement, although the third one upstairs is barely large enough to theoretically accommodate a single bed and a dresser and definitely wants to be an office. The fourth “bedroom” is in the very back of the finished basement (why the…

If nothing else, I wish we had the opportunity to go back in and make at least cosmetic changes (hair cut/color, tattoos, piercings, add some scars, etc.) over the course of the game. If they could do it for freaking Skyrim, they can do it a decade later for this. Also, what do you mean I can’t even get a new tattoo…

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Our house was built about 17 years ago and our mudroom is trash. It connects to the garage, the basement stairs, and the kitchen hallway, so there’s only room for a tiny bench for shoes, a teeny closet that holds about three pairs of winter boots and maybe four coats (it is seriously small, squashed in between the…

Finding out that video games are made and calibrated for a situation where the screen is the only light source in the room suddenly makes impossibly dark games make a lot more sense. Me, I get a headache if I game like that. There’s always going to be at least one other light on somewhere in the room, and if I have to…

Any crime or ordinance violation punishable only by a fine is constructively legal for the rich.