Eh, it might not be legally true but a lot of 22 year olds still seem like children to me.

They're only fucking it up if they're trying and failing to make a specific thing, not just because they thing they make offends you.

Because that's where society is and most people like to participate in society?

The whole point is to collectively bargain for favorable terms of employment. Supporting the worst workers is the same as applying laws equally in a country: even violent criminals have basic rights that must be respected.

That's true in every country, you should see "pizza Americana" or "American fried rice".

Dude I was simply pushing back against "The whole point of unions is to support the worst workers." Because that's not the whole point. What you're saying has nothing to do with what I was saying. I certainly wasn't implying that supporting the worst workers was a bad thing.

but really it’s the exploration that makes it soul-like

Maybe ideally but mostly it means "hard combat against bosses with predictable attacks you learn to dodge around".

"Sentinels of the Multiverse" is a fairly popular board game (within those circles) and it looks pretty rough. Pokemon S/V got rightfully dunked on for looking like shit but it still made a bunch of money. "The Case of the Golden Idol" is highly regarded. Runescape.

Sure, but that's only one portion of the deal. I don't want to minimize other benefits that unions fight for, like fair wages and medical coverage and vacation days and proper PPE supplies and training.

Not anymore, they got fired ("resigned" technically) because our new mayor isn't a big pile of garbage.

sweating profusely while counting rings

Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond "Americans using food words wrong". (Also, "wrong" is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that's fine.)

What are you even talking about. I said "Being trapped and anxious makes people miserable" in response to your "Having to drive everywhere makes people misserable." It's not the need to drive that sucks it's the circumstances of the drive that suck. Being stuck in traffic is a very different experience than an oceanside highway with nobody around. But that's only half the point because you're ignoring the context of my attention span statement, which was with respect to the "offloading cognitive costs" point. I don't think offloading cognitive costs is a good thing in most circumstances, you should be aware of what you're doing and where you are. It gets complicated with anxiety and hyperawareness and such wherein passive existence is overwhelming (and this is one of the things I was flagging as a "good reason to choose mass transit")

The unwillingness to be engaged with the task of driving a car for a few hours is not a good reason, it’s a symptom of a totally cooked attention span

If you choose a slower, more expensive way to get somewhere because you can't put your phone down and focus on the task of getting from point A to B for four hours, and it isn't due to mental fatigue or a disorder like ADHD, then I think it's wasteful and reflects poorly on your character.

A car is not freedom. And the absence of a car is not being trapped.

Here are more things you pretended I said because people in this community are so used to fighting caricatures of car culture. Calling me a bad faith commenter.

The religious people here don't actually read their book, they get told what to think.

There's a lot of really grim countries full of really cool people. That makes it worse that so many Americans are as mean and delusional as the bastards in charge.

You can own a car and still be a trapped and anxious ball of cooked nerves

I never once claimed otherwise, that's an argument you invented for me.

It's not just tiktok, I see people here (and everywhere) misuse "anymore" all the time these days. It needs to follow a negative!

a redesign of Cortana

I'm still kinda mad that they decided Cortana had to be sexy and ditched the purple/green pixie of the first design. The AI companion of an asexual super soldier doesn't need jiggly tits!

The first one is measuring BTUs and converting but the UMich information is straight carbon emissions per passenger mile and planes are only ~30% worse than commuter rail in the US by that metric. It's really not the apocalypse you're making it out to be.

People in lower positions also need to assert boundaries in the workplace.