BillyClark

I finished Space Chem but not Magnum Opus. I actually think it’s for the stupidest reason, that Space Chem is pretending that I’m making real molecules instead of alchemy or whatever.

For a hot second, everyone was wondering whether Starmer had miraculously grown a spine.

They also need to break up the current monopolies or oligopolies.

Is 16 minutes a long time for a walkable city? I always thought that the bar was something like 30 minutes, and 20 minutes was normal-ish.

I am a fan of city design that tries to keep total commute time, including walking and transit, under 30 minutes.

Do they actually talk? I always assumed the substitute teacher just left notes.

I think that if you post anything remotely clever, it all depends on the first vote. If the first vote is an upvote, everybody will look at it as if it might be clever, because it’s upvoted. If the first vote is a downvote, everybody expects it to be stupid.

I think that’s one of the reasons why Reddit had a feature that would hide votes for a while, because that first vote is so powerful.

You don’t need to look up any etymology because the word “ringer” is plainly a noun and so it doesn’t have a past tense. I really thought the joke was so obvious that it wouldn’t need any explanation, especially when posting to a memes community that would be expecting jokes.

Right after I got my first job out of college, I sent an email like that to a coworker, and later, when I saw him in person, I mentioned the email, and he said that he saw that stuff at the top and just deleted the email without reading further.

Now, that guy was an asshole, not just for that interaction but for many others. For example, he had a doctorate, and insisted that people call him “Dr. Clark”, rather than his first name, even though nobody else did that.

But I did start writing emails much better after that. I write the subject in order to get people to decide to read the body. The first sentence of the body is what I am asking them to do. The next few sentences are the most important points, and the rest is details. I know… It’s just like they teach you to write in English classes, but it didn’t sink in until I spent a long while writing an email and it was immediately tossed in the garbage unread.

Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.

After a power outage, my microwave absolutely refuses to do anything until I set the time. As if it’s a clock that also happens to have the ability to cook food, and not the other way around.

Many people see the word “range” inside of “ranger” and mindlessly assume that it must mean they do ranged attacks. But actually, the word ranger is originally the past tense of the word “ringer”, so they’re the guy who you temporarily brought into your party to win some bet, but then they stuck around afterwards and became a permanent member.

I realize that Gandalf was powerful, but could he have actually eaten all of the hobbits?

Pretty sure they’re referring to a Hooloovoo.

What kind of jerk plays Uno against an opponent who is completely incapable of saying the word, “Uno”?

What’s their next game? Basketball against a person with no arms? An eating competition against a person who has just had gastric bypass surgery? Tennis against a blind person?

I don’t think it is good for their sanity to allow delusional people to rant about their conspiracy theories to other people.

I don’t know what Jack Dee looked like in his 20s, but I think he was probably a grumpy old man when he was in his 20s.

You know, I have this long-standing dream of owning a sailboat and going for extended trips at sea. I haven’t done it because it’s far too expensive, and also because of my responsibilities on land. But add a new one to that. I’m somewhat concerned that a US war vessel will attack me.

You know, looking at that little scarring in the context of the vaccine, I’m reminded that I heard that there’s this famous idea that milk maids are historically seen as the very definition of pretty, and that the idea stems from the fact that they tended to get cowpox, which protected them from smallpox.

So, basically, before smallpox vaccines, the typical woman was so badly scarred somewhere visible like her face by smallpox that a woman who simply didn’t have those scars would be considered extremely pretty.

What a twist. The guy who owns a boat knows how to swim. I do enjoy the abject stupidity of the elf’s hatred for humans in this comic.

The more I think about it, the more I’m on the machines’ side in The Matrix.

There’s an old saying, “Never meet your heroes.”

But now with social media, you know every famous person’s opinions, and really just the concept of a hero is almost gone. You have a couple of honest people here and there, and then you have a litany of people who idolize celebrities with well-known despicable or ridiculously stupid views like Chuck Norris.