First off: congrats! My wife just gave birth to our second child, which... I mean, not like we had a say in the timing, but that was also an exceedingly weird thing to do during a pandemic. Instead of a whole bunch of people in the room meeting the little one, it was just me and her. And if I left, I couldn’t go back…

Right now, at this stage of my life, reliability is second only to safety. I’ve got two small children—one toddler, one newborn—and I’m aggressively getting rid of the remainder of my student debt and aggressively building up my retirement portfolio to make up for all the years I wasn’t contributing shit because all…

Honestly, I know that the only path forward is recognizing that we have more in common with most Trump voters than we do differences. We’re all relatively poor and powerless (compared to those who have real money, every day take more of it, and use that money as leverage for immense power). The elites that run the GOP…

Yeah, this whole pandemic is laying bare the way a certain portion of America—particularly the American right—looks at people. It’s nothing new, it’s just more explicit, more jarring. For decades we’ve put profits ahead of quality of life, now we’re just explicitly putting profits ahead of actual lives.

Damn. The only thing I’m disappointed by is the fact Jordan didn’t just own it in the documentary. I mean, personally I wouldn’t have batted an eye if he’s just said “yeah, absolutely. Fuck Zeke. I hated him, half the team hated him, his own coach didn’t want to deal with him on the team. I had leverage and I used it.…

Crack pipe only because I grew up in upstate NY, and I feel like vehicles like these were always to be found rusting out in someone’s backyard somewhere. Always with a story along the lines of “oh, yeah, dad bought that because he got a good deal and he thought it was cool, turns out it was insanely unreliable and not…

Yeah, I just spent five minutes trying to scroll down the page on my iPhone only to have it keep rubber band back up to the intro. Jesus what an insanely frustrating experience.

Man, that show was hot or cold. There were some episodes where you could tell that Seinfeld and the guest were either good friends or had a lot of respect for each other, or had strong mutual interests, and the conversation was really interesting. There were some where you could basically feel them wanting to slap the…

When you have no self awareness or sense of shame, embarrassment is a completely foreign concept.

Neutral: I work for a very large global IT and cybersecurity company, and we’re still pretty busy, between companies adjusting their infrastructures to their newly-distributed workforces, and all the hackers trying to take advantage of same.

I’m curious how much of a shitshow the post-COVID lawsuits from employees of Musk and others of his ilk are going to be. It seems to me that there are going to be a whole bunch of families of workers who will catch the disease after being basically told they can return to work or lose their jobs.

If I had to guess I’d say they’re going to split up because he’s an entitled narcissist with a history of rash decisions and fathering children then dumping the mother. And she doesn’t exactly appear to be the picture of stability herself.

Good list, and I’d suggest that if you’re the type of person for whom the items on this list are about the limit of what kinds of maintenance you’re willing to undertake, the single most important car-maintenance thing you can do is take the time to find a good, reliable, trustworthy local garage near you.

Good list, and I’d suggest that if you’re the type of person for whom the items on this list are about the limit of…

Hm. I bought The Golf Club 2019 Featuring the PGA Tour on a whim when it was on sale on Steam. I hadn’t played a golf game for about a decade, and I was pumped for something that might offer a half-hour escape here and there... but I wasn’t impressed. The physics seemed wonky... I didn’t mind the swing mechanics, but…

Yeah, I don’t think that’s tangential, it’s just a slightly different manifestation of the same problem.

And this is just a taste of what we can expect from now until November.

Ok, I bought this game on a whim after reading your review. I was bored on an end-of-day conference call that I had absolutely no reason to be on, I hadn’t bought a new video game this entire lockdown, and this looked and sounded good. I was going to play for a few minutes while my wife was getting our son to sleep,…

Totally agree that getting upset about this is a bit much, but at the same time, “rhetorical flourish” is an awfully kind euphemism for “technique designed solely to drive annoyed and outraged clicks.” Really, the headline is explicitly designed to make people come here and complain about it. And then get people to…

This is the first Ferrari in my lifetime I’ve been just completely smitten with. Even when I was a kid, I was more Countach than F-40. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always respected what Ferrari does, their pedigree, and blah blah blah. And they’ve certainly made some gorgeous cars in my lifetime, but nothing that just…