This seems like an obvious improvement and I kind of want everyone who thought otherwise to be banned from working in decision making roles.

Mark is a good, kind person

No he’s not.

He has done tremendous, incalculable, harm to countless people. All of our lives are worse because Zuckerberg is an asshole.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask but maybe this comic will be interesting anyway

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

He now commutes weekly via plane to London.

That’s a climate criminal right there.

Microsoft 365 is a worse name than Microsoft Office.

People are idiots. They believe things that feel good.

Cis male. Often yes, but there’s always room for improvement. I lean on metaphor a little hard sometimes.

I had a relationship where the other person was very Guess Culture (as opposed to Ask) and that didn’t work very well at all.

I think most people are kind of bad with money, and I think that scales with income.

I think a lot about some old coworkers (six figure salary). We all wanted to go out for a party after work. A bunch of then paid like $80 for a car. I paid $3 for a subway ride. Got there at the same time.

Maybe that’s not so much “bad at money” exactly as have incomprehensible to me values.

When making small talk I usually explicitly differentiate between “what do you do for money?” and “what do you do for fun?”

Sometimes people are surprised by the latter, but it’s usually a more fun topic.

Saw the comic and knew the thread would be a train wreck. So many dudes take this kind of thing deeply personally and throw up colored flags about themselves.

Maybe there’s regional pricing but usually albums are like $5 - $10, which is less than Spotify’s $12/mo. But then there are discounts and family plans and whatnot. Plus if you want a lot of albums in a month, that’ll be more up front.

I tend to only buy a new album every month or so, so I feel like I’m spending about the same. But more importantly I get to keep the music, so some months I buy nothing and still have music.

Been pretty happy with Linux for the past year or two.

A few minor problems here and there. I was struggling to figure out how to adjust the screen brightness (pop!_os defaults). Found a command line tool to adjust gamma - my girlfriend was a little baffled. Then I realized I should just adjust the brightness on the display itself, on the hardware.

I (cis man) always fully close the toilet when it’s not in use. Never would occur to me to do otherwise.

Some of my women friends leave the seat down lid open, but then their cats drink out of the toilet.

Excellent. I love walking places. I’d ride a bike more but it’s just not safe.

Walking around park slope is so much more fun than driving. And then I stop in to shops because it’s easy, and I don’t have to worry about parking.

I make a list between shopping of stuff I realize I should get (eg: peanut butter). When I go, I sometimes just grab stuff that’s cheap or appealing.

I also live like 5 minutes away on foot from several grocery stores, so it’s not a big deal to go.

Maybe I should check out their grocery options. I’ve mostly been using Too Good to Go for like a pizza @ $4.

People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I just buy music (usually from Bandcamp). It’s not always more expensive, I get to keep the files drm free, and the people making music get paid

Car free is pretty great. Was out until 3am for new years eve. Took the train home. Waited about 5 minutes on the platform for it.

Other passengers in the train car? A disgustingly cute couple in their early 20s sharing headphones. A late 20s lady playing phone games. A mid 30s lady who was falling down drunk and her man, eating pizza, helping her stay awake.

That last couple especially benefitted from taking the train. They were in no shape to drive.

s it possible for Chic-fil-a to ever redeem itself in your eyes?

I honestly haven’t been following them.

Did they ever admit fault? That’s big for me. An explicit “we were wrong”

I call my cat by his name. Not his full name, just the first name unless he’s being formally introduced or in a lot of trouble.