You could do a lot of good with that money. Like, build a ton of housing. Replace some lead pipes or other hazardous infrastructure. Pay some medical debt.

Instead he does this.

I won’t be mad if Musk meets a sudden end. I just hope it’s a really embarrassing one.

(not op) The strongest argument I could make is that DND 5e is not a good system and holds the game back, but even that doesn’t really make it “fundamentally a bad game”.

I thankfully don’t drive much anymore, but I’d get annoyed when I’d wait before the intersection, and people would be honking at me. Like, do you want me to block the intersection? Maybe they just can’t see and assume I’m a moron

A lot of those people are probably the same sort that hold the subway doors open and make thousands of people late just so they can cram in.

And if you lose the vote to not go to the concentration camp?

how bad does it have to get before violence is acceptable? Before or after one is in the concentration camp?

He was bleeding.

If it bleeds…

The whole of conservatism is “there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in groups for the law to protect but not bind”

That’s it.

They’re trash people.

Don’t assume you have to get on the relationship escalator of “dating - exclusive - engaged - married”. There are other kinds of relationships, including no romantic/sexual relationships at all. Don’t stick with someone who’s not making you happy out of inertia or a sense of obligation.

Be social. Don’t burn yourself out socializing every night of the week, but if people are inviting you to be a part of their life make a good effort to show up. Video games or YouTube or whatever will always be there. Friends won’t. (This assumes the social stuff they’re inviting you to isn’t , like, insane. Skip on someone inviting you to do heroin or whatever.)

Pay attention to your spending. Some people like a dedicated program for budgeting, or their bank provides something. I’m a particular kind of nerd so I used Google sheets. Whatever you use, adding up what you’re actually spending every month can be illuminating. I don’t expect anyone to discover “if I stop getting avocado toast I can afford a house”, but knowing where your money is going is an important prerequisite for controlling it.

Don’t fall into lifestyle inflation. Like, a friend of mine started making good money and his budget grew. He was spending $1000/month on food because he’d just gotten used to dining out and such. His paycheck was bigger but he wasn’t saving any more. Another guy I used to work with told me his family “struggled too” despite a $500k family income. They had a big house, new cars, expensive memberships, extravagant vacations, designer clothes. You can just not do a lot of that and be happy, too.

I have enough money, so I almost always give some to people who ask. I don’t ask questions. If they start telling me an excuse I say it’s alright, they don’t have to justify themselves to me.

I don’t give a lot of money because I’m not that rich and not that nice, but $1 to $5. I started carrying more cash for this.

Anyone who’s somewhat rich, in the like six figures of excess cash, is likely making several hundred dollars a month on fully insured interest. People like that can certainly spare a few bucks.

So far no one’s given me much trouble.

The deciding factor for me on the steam deck is I can plug it into the tv, and now I can kind of do couch co-op for games that don’t do split screen

Like I can be on my desktop and they can be on the docked deck, and we can play path of exile together.

I mean, you’re probably not wrong. Getting more money in the hands of poor people would likely be good for everyone.

But i would rather have people live in denser, more walkable, more human spaces. We don’t really need to have our living spaces where the nearest grocery is 5 miles away.

Why would we want to keep the sprawl and low density as a first class option? We don’t need to keep people living in Podunk, AR just because that’s where they are. It’s expensive for society. We should be discouraging low density.

I don’t have kids but I’m close to someone who does. I play Legos with the kid and don’t have to change diapers. It’s great. We’re in Brooklyn.

I’m not sure I know what you mean by breathing room. I’m not far from prospect Park.

The idea of privacy is kind of counter intuitive. In the city people see you but they don’t typically care. It’s like being invisible. But better, actually, because when you get in a bike accident then people do see you and help.

I don’t know about less friendly. Differently friendly, maybe. I don’t talk to people on the street or subway. I talk to people at bars or meetups or shows.

I would never ever want to subject my hypothetical kids to a suburban life. That’s what I had. Couldn’t do shit. Everything’s too far away, and the roads are too dangerous to walk or bike on.

I was so jealous of the kids I knew that grew up in the city. They’d tell me about how they’d gone ice skating or to a punk show or to a board game shop, and I’d be like wow I can’t do any of that. It’s either just not here (music), or I can’t get there because walking for miles/down a highway is dangerous.

All of this is written specifically from the experience of NYC and its suburbs. I haven’t lived anywhere else long enough to speak to it.

Many apartments are in fact larger than a closet.

Walkable areas are probably the most important thing. The way most suburbs are set up so you have to drive everywhere is just a bad idea on every metric.

This come up sometimes and I can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t live in a city just because that’s where work is. I live here because it’s dense, walkable, has a lot of stuff happening every day, and many different people.

Moving out to a rural or suburban space is a huge downgrade on most metrics I care about.

I still want to work from home.

People aren’t rational. We’re bags of meat with feelings.

A large chunk of the US is deeply sexist on top of other intellectual and moral failings.

This is aggravated by the right wing fighting against education, especially when it benefits the general public.

They don’t use words to try to find or describe truth. They use words for effect. If saying (or believing) A gets what they want today, and Not-A gets it tomorrow, they will happily switch without any hesitation. Sometimes without any awareness.

We all are at risk of doing this. But the Republicans have it turned up to 11.

And because of that, on some fundamental level, they are bad people.

the creator cracked it open and stuck some extra hardware inside to help the device run Doom.

Wait what. What hardware? I feel like that doesn’t really count? Like I can run doom on my guitar if I stick a computer in there.

allow me to remind you about ✨opportunity costs ✨

You would hope, but I think a lot of people would disappoint.