"First World Problems," as a trope, is meant to put into the crosshairs when someone's being petty about something stupid.

This, on the other hand, is addressing a real problem in our society that's more severe than you're giving it credit for. Women are disproportionately represented in aviation for no reason other…

If you promise to keep it quiet so it doesn't get taken down... QI XL is pretty easy to find full episodes of on YouTube. There're something like 10 series (seasons) of it. It's one of the best television shows on the planet, as far as I'm concerned.

I've been to Africa, and I was fine, but that's neither here nor there. I live in the US; there's no reason at all I need to pay for the privilege of riding around in a shitty car in my own city when there're better options available to me here.

I mean, y'know... suit yourself. Given the choice? I'd rather be in a car that's a year or two old than be in a retired police cruiser with more than 100000 on the clock and a torn off piece of a candy box covering the veritable christmas tree of flashing idiot lights on the dash.

The Midwest. Ohioans and Indianans have no right to calling themselves Midwesterners, and must stop it immediately. I dunno what they are, and I don't care. They're not Midwest. The Midwest is Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, the Dakotas, and sometimes Michigan (mostly the U.P.). Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska can…

I have had to say "I don't have cash" any number of times. I've had cabbies say they'll drive me to ATMs, then. I'm like... "No, you advertise that you take credit cards. If you have to get out the little impression machine and do it that way, then that's what you're gonna do, or you're gonna not get paid. You have…

The problem with taxis is not that they don't have an app. Why is it that these idiots think that if they just "got an app" they'd be set? The problem with taxis is that they suck, and they *have* sucked for decades and people are sick of dealing with it and Uber fixes all or very damn nearly all of the reasons they…

The thing is... "Top Stories" aren't really "Top Stories" (or even all that interesting) if they're 24 hours out of date. Timeliness, inherently, has a *HUGE* influence on relevance. Why don't they get that?

No one does fawning, pearl-clutching, mawkishness quite like local news. But, it keeps all those mediocre people in the 'burbs happy, and that's their audience, so I guess we know why.

The M5 of the skies is the Triple 7. Enormous engines, gorgeous to watch it fly, spacious and comfortable inside.

I just flew in a '57 on my way home from Minneapolis the other day. It depends entirely on the airline as to how "nice" they are inside. They do the job, and they do it well. But there's nothing else about…

I wasn't talking horsepower. I was talking style.

I didn't say design had to be ambitious. I said it had to be good. There's a difference. Windows XP was far from ambitious in terms of its interface design (Win95 and Win98 had functionally identical user models), but it remains to this day one of the easiest operating systems to use. Not just because it's familiar,…

"Getting technology into the hands of users" doesn't happen if users don't want what you're selling because they can't figure out how to make it work the way they want it to. You get one chance. If they like you, they'll rapidly polarize and you'll have people who stand anxiously outside on cold nights waiting for the…

Which character to dislike more... Bob Corker, or the UAW? I'm torn.

Bob Corker: asshole Republican fuckface.

UAW: A relic from a different era desperately working to create a narrative of acrimony between workers and their employer in order to retain a semblance of relevance.

The problem is that updates don't mean squat if you've already pissed off your users with a product they can't use. They won't be back.

You seem to think like an engineer. So does Microsoft... and that's why they're releasing shitty products no one wants. The ability to iterate is great if what you're iterating on are…

Their behavior would seem to indicate that the videos are worthwhile, if they keep coming back to watch them. Just because *you* don't think so, doesn't make it objectively so.

The millions of people who watch videos produced by the original content creators on YouTube every day seem to disagree with you.

Very little of what you said just there even bears responding to in any detail. The heat with which it was delivered goes to make my point for me with respect to the emotional dents you appear to have suffered at the hands of a non-representative sample of gay men you seem incapable of recognizing as other than a part…

Seems like you've been injured by some interactions you've had with some gay men. Sorry that that happened to you. I'd encourage you, though, not to paint with so broad a brush when you say things like "gay men ... think she is disgusting simply for being female". Not all gay men think women are disgusting. I am not…

I didn't claim it was about a failing of the article. I claimed that the ridiculous meta-conversation that always happens (and that I'm now participating in... damn) about what is and is not permissible in the comments is stupid. People can say whatever they want.