magnetosphere

They have excellent PR and marketing. People think they’re better than they actually are.

A bunch of bots do not constitute a “community”

I think the allure of gossip is more applicable to general human nature than US culture in particular

Okay. Gatekeeping sucks. I’m with ya there. But… that doesn’t mean that you can’t make “no ai” (or something) a simple user setting, right? Does something like this already exist? If not, why? (I don’t use Steam, so I genuinely don’t know).

I’m surprised it became a noticeable problem this quickly. I was gonna give it a few more months before the failures started happening.

Yeah. I was a toddler losing my shit. My little brain couldn’t handle subtleties. Bees=sting was all I could manage.

Bumblebees don’t sting.

I have to give mom a pass for this one, though. The bumblebees in our yard were huge. It kept me from freaking out, which was probably for the best. Unfortunately, I believed it into my 40s, and repeated it a few times.

By your father’s standards, I am gay.

It may seem like no big deal to him, but he’s not the one risking prison. He could have settled this ahead of time, but simply chose not to. He’s an adult who is responsible for his own choices. You are definitely not wrong for refusing to help him.

“If the university won’t take itself seriously, I won’t take it seriously either.” Sounds fair to me.

Trump is only pissed because the “misconduct” didn’t benefit him directly. Otherwise, this wouldn’t even be a story.

Star Wars

Fast food chains destroy food rather than donate it. People get fired for taking food home that’s “supposed” to be thrown away.

On an unrelated note, your avatar is awesome!

I assume the recipe doesn’t change much. How often do they need to declare the ingredients? I don’t understand how this happened in the first place.

“Let’s send mixed messages. Be sure to include lots of healthy, well-groomed, cute pets in the ad. Also, make sure the animals are sized oddly relative to one another, to give potential buyers no sense of scale. If we don’t know how big this thing is, then neither should they.”