Oh trust, I’m not embarrassed. I just recognize a B-list troll of less-than-average intelligence when I see one.

Nah, I’ll pass.

Given how strong the dumb is in your assertion of “if you vote for someone and they win, you can’t complain about anything they do!” above, I’m pretty confident in assuming I’m not the one who can’t draw conclusions.

Probably because the only people who actually talk about how they don’t vote are doing it because they’re proud of it—they think it’s edgy/contrarian/special.

I think you’re having trouble parsing out when people are actually claiming you said something, verbatim, in the first place. I’m not claiming you SAID anything—I’m claiming you wrote something that implied something different than what you apparently meant.

My point was that if you wanted to disagree you could have actually done so, rather than posting what was essentially the vote/don’t vote equivalent of “but freedom of speech!”

I was confused as to why you would have left a comment reminding people that “the right to vote includes the right not to,” if you didn’t think people crapping on not voting was somehow in violation of or infringing upon that right. It’s very, very clear I wasn’t implying you said that—I was inferring you thought…

Point to the part where it says “without other people criticizing that choice,” please? I’m having trouble finding it.

You refuse to go on any foreign airline because there have been several plane crashes on non-US carriers? What?

Maybe stop trying to hang out in Manhattan, or at least stop seeing it as representative of the rest of the city? It’s supremely gross to listen to people whine about how awful the whole city is—and how terrible/spoiled/washed up the people are—when really they’re talking about a tiny sliver of it. It’s like people…

Kocian only did 3 events.

If you think New Yorkers have any sort of monopoly on thinking their “little world” is all that matters and knowing precious little about what goes on outside of it, I’m not sure what to tell you.

This is me so hard. Given that I currently live in a place where maybe 2 months of the year is 90+, but at least 7 of them involve regular temperatures below 55, I don’t feel bad about it, either.

Comments like this are a perfect example of the fact that people who don’t live in New York/[insert xyz city] are often ones obsessing. I’ve never heard more talk about New York (or coastal/city folks in general) than I did/do living in the Midwest and the South. People legitimately think, despite our infrastructure…

According to half the comments on this article, this is impossible! There’s literally no way you didn’t die of heat stroke, which is what happens to everyone without AC in the South, and why there’s nobody there who doesn’t have it!

Maybe, but it’s a huge part of what shaped and keeps modern civilization running, as are most of the “unnatural” things we do/places we live.

It was a purposely over-the-top article about air conditioning, not a politician with voting power changing their stance on gay marriage because they found out their own kid is gay. Her opinion wasn’t “uninformed,” it was just...an opinion on an issue that is pretty much solely shaped by personal preference, presented…

Eh, it’s a little different, if only because he’s a professional talking about the limits of an inanimate machine.

OK, while it’s true that people in the South are much less likely be actively anti-AC, these kinds of comments confuse me. I’ve lived all over the South, and plenty of people don’t have AC because they can’t afford it. I’m not saying it’s not miserable, but this whole “you NEED it or you’re in severe and immediate…

That totally makes sense. I’m always fascinated by people’s winter temperatures because I abhor—like, hate more than almost anything—when spaces are actively “warm” in the winter. I think it probably stems from growing up in the Great Lakes region with weirdos who loved the cold and hated spending money. My parents…