I think the punchline goes multiple ways at once: “the protesters were stupid thinking this would help”, “the protesters were stupid in how they tried to protest”, and “everyone back then was stupid because it’s Waterworld now.”

While not the same, I bet lobster tacos are pretty tasty.

Thanks for the Champions of Krynn flashback. 12-year-old me used to love exploiting the item duplication save glitch; the game was practically over once I found a wand of fireball. Character classes were irrelevant after that.

Kobolds? Fireball. Zombies? Fireball. Draconians? Absolutely use fireball. Paladin death knight lich? Believe it or not, fireball.

Doesn’t matter. 30 minutes on the monkey-bars is the best upper-body workout you didn’t have to pay for.

Bonus: use your adult muscles to spin the merry-go-round while those kids hang on for everything they’re worth. Be a hero.

This is alarmingly close to my every attempt at an Assassin’s Creed mission:

1. Listen carefully to briefing
2. Go full stealth, infiltrating without incident
3. Make a stupid mistake; get discovered
4. Killdozer

That and is there enough “other stuff” going on in the game to ignore the plot completely and just go do that instead for 100 hours?

Absolutely. On the flipside: you can now scratch itches you didn’t even know you had.

I’m in the middle of a re-watch of Northern Exposure. Maurice, in his prime, more or less embodied this sentiment.

It’s clearly a conspiracy to sell charts.

but revisionism happened

The spotless translation of countless scrolls, tablets, and old books make this clear. They were all just roommates. Nothing to see here.

Get this weaksauce, lame, half-assed attempt at building divisive speech outta my house. Troll harder or go home.

It’s worse than that. When you look at the status quo through the lens of capitalism, we’re all very strongly aligned with maximum extraction of personal wealth. Everyone is at peak personal inefficiency by everyone having/owning one of everything, as we constantly bleed income to other parties. In other words: we’d all be richer if we shared more stuff and were less territorial about things that don’t matter.

TL;DR: everything we should be doing is stuff we learned in the sandbox as kids.

This was my immediate thought. For all we know he multitasks by sitting in the lotus pose on that chair.

Ah yes, the h-drop. Wikipedia says it best:

Although common in most regions of England and in some other English-speaking countries, and linguistically speaking a neutral evolution in languages, H-dropping is often stigmatized as a sign of careless or uneducated speech.

As a yank, I must protest. How dare you, I resemble that remark!

I strongly recommend reading their (utterly fascinating) Wikipedia page. I’ll just screw up the details by re-hashing it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1NN5TER

The tragic hilarity of toxic masculinity is that it strives to define “a man” by what he isn’t, in an attempt to preserve an exclusive and narrowly defined top slot of a social hierarchy. But all one has to do is claim behaviors as a different group, and the definition contracts accordingly. At the same time, the fact that said “masculine” definition is malleable to the point of sheer fiction, evades everyone in that group.

Focus and Pivot

This is also known as “stack ranking” and “rank and yank”.

It’s a super-gross way to run a business. I can see how you might want to “cut the fat” when starting out or growing. But keeping a policy like that for the long haul means selecting for employees that are good at that surviving. And that may not require one to even be all that productive, just good at working the system.

Anecdotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195136

It’s also a recipe for a toxic work environment:

https://www.cultureamp.com/blog/what-is-stack-ranking

Fan theory: The King of all Cosmos is really just the cafeteria manager for the Celestials and Katamari are just little appetizers for Galactus.

That doesn’t sound right but I don’t know enough about weaponizing paint cans and micro machines to dispute it.

Much better. Gets us out of the “if Batman had enough prep time” bikeshed.