This is definitely true. There are always millions of people who have it in some way “better” than you (unless maybe you’re Jeff Bezos, but then I have his hair beat). There are also millions of people who have it in some way worse than you. Which set you choose to focus on, whether to be envious or thankful, is up to…

“her looks do as well” - this is the main reason she gets coverage. Bad things that happen to young attractive women who have nice looking photos ALWAYS lead on news stories. For the same reason as the headline of this article: they are attention getters for TV news channels. Call it sick, but it’s true. I’m not even…

Meanwhile this guy is freely allowed in. Patriarchy!

I’ll take praying over screaming any day, whether it be to existential nothingness, flying pasta monsters, or old fat dudes with long white beards.

I am a night person and HATE mornings and getting up. I do a 30 minute cardio (used to be run, now elliptical) workout every weekday in the evenings after work. Means two showers a day. I tried an experiment 2 years ago to wake up 1 hour earlier and do my workout in the morning to only have to do one shower a day. I…

I think the most likely thing is the chauffeur model. Voice commands that modify driving destination. See a building in the distance? You start telling your car things like “take the next left” “get off at the next exit” etc. Need to go to a friend’s house up town? “Drive me up town, I’ll tell you when I recognize…

“Trump has treated the American people, broadly speaking, as shit-eating dumbasses” ... keep me posted on when this actually stops working for him. Note: Outrage, protests, “can you believe this shit?” questions, his stupid executive orders he passes to distract everyone getting blocked are not an indicator of things…

1. As non-PC as it is to say it, stereotypes are often based on a kernel of truth. There is a reason (sometimes outdated or becoming outdated) that they exist.
   

I’ve not seen this insult in common usage, but maybe it’s just the crowd I hang out with. The reality is getting insulted by idiots is a part of life, unfortunately. No matter how “normal” you are there will always be idiots who pick at the slightest thing to put you down, in order to make themselves feel better. An…

He *is* his mirror-universe counterpart!

Good job objectifying those women! I can see you have assumed they are dumb based on their looks. They are lucky to have someone like you who is smart enough to see how they’re being shamefully manipulated and controlled. Also, great work objectifying Monster as a monolithic entity, single mindedly out to suppress…

I’ve seen all 9 BP nominees from 2016 plus all the Marvel movies. Comparing an artfully done indie movie like Moonlight to a big budget Marvel movie is like comparing an orange to chocolate cake. They’re both food, the cake costs more, and you’d probably get more people saying they like cake. But really, what’s the…

OK, yeah, you’re right... I missed the expensive part. There’re plenty of crappy pay media players (on desktop and mobile), but they’re not expensive. I guess I was just thinking VLC is good free software.

How about VLC media player?

Next up: article railing about similar meaningless “often quoted” metrics in other product categories: LCD monitor contrast ratio, phone display PPI, copper cable oxygen free percentage, etc. Unfortunately marketing != meaningful information communication.

Looks like a good deal but I tried it and got the message: “Please add qualifying items to your cart for promotion ZEROG.” Clicking for details on the discount says it is good for $80 off qualifying products. The monitor linked in the article is $370, so even if the promo code worked, it would be $290, not $200.

Looks like a good deal but I tried it and got the message: “Please add qualifying items to your cart for promotion ZE…

I tried Prime Pantry. Once I filtered out products that I bought generic or store brands cheaper than Amazon, products I would use often enough to need regularly, and products that Amazon actually had, it was VERY difficult to bypass the $5/box fee. After a few months of way too much shampoo, way too little dog food,…

I tried Prime Pantry. Once I filtered out products that I bought generic or store brands cheaper than Amazon,…

Every “news” story (including this one) has a bias in it, all the way down to the words used by it. The biases run from < 1% (“Armstrong Walks on Moon”) to > 99% (“Election is Rigged”) but none are 0% and none are 100%. Claiming some news is “fake” means you’re picking an arbitrary bias percentage above which news is…

I agree with your assessment of unbridled maximizing profits being the cause of a lot of the inequities we have today. Unfortunately it’s not just the 1% fat cats benefiting from that, but everyone with a stock portfolio or retirement fund. And, if the government forces corporations not to maximize profits, foreign…