I don’t think I’ve ever gone much out of my way for achievements for their own sake. Games where they also unlock stuff (eg: binding of isaac), sure, but that’s for the unlock.

I may have done some challenge stuff that I learned about for the achievement, but only because it seemed fun. I wouldn’t go very far into anti-fun just for an digital badge on my profile.

I think I had a small amount of alcohol at weddings and new years celebrations when I was a teenager.

My parents don’t have the healthiest relationship with alcohol. it’s not the worst, but it never seemed cool or fun. It was just dad having a few cheap beers while watching the game. They never told me not to drink, either. No “forbidden fruit” allure.

Fare changes usually are slower to change than gas prices for customers at the gas station. Bus fare in NYC is $3, and they can’t just change that day by day. (Unless our new mayor makes the buses free to ride!)

It might be more expensive as energy costs go up, but services aren’t supposed to be run at a profit. The value in a mass transit system is very high.

But there is probably an impact. Now I’m curious about how they decide the fares

I don’t intentionally consume caffeine. No coffee. Only herbal tea. No energy drinks. There might be some in chocolate, but I don’t eat much chocolate.

When I was a kid my whole family were like coffee fiends. Couldn’t get going without a cup. I never wanted to be like that.

NYC. $0. Walk and take transit. Sorry, I’m insufferable about this but it’s really nice.

In America, we resolve our political differences at the ballot box,

Do we though?

I really would like less news coverage of trump supporters. Their opinions are bad. I’d like the news media to focus on humanizing everyone else.

Without doing any research, I feel like I hear about fewer hate crimes targeting trans men than trans women? I’d guess because our society is obsessive with policing women’s bodies. A guy with no beard is whatever, but a woman with some fuzz or stubble is a crime.

(Not to say that trans men don’t have their own struggles)

That doesn’t really address people betting on horrible things and then making them happen.

Also “it will just go underground” is still kind of a win? The average person isn’t going to navigate sketchy underground arrangements, but they’ll find a slick website with good SEO.

I don’t think people buying consoles are doing that kind of long term thinking

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it’s hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don’t give chainsaws out to children. We don’t use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that’s not a big reveal.

Revoke their license. Scale fines with wealth. Mandate thousands of hours of community service for speeders. Don’t just do nothing and hope it sorts itself out.

Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I’m not mad about this.

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like “MUST KNOW POSTMAN”. Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn’t the only tool for that.

Furthermore, if I’m doing automated tests to run on PR I’m not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has.

I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words

Many of them know they are using words dishonestly. They don’t care. They will say whatever in the pursuit of power.

Some are just legitimately stupid and have no internal consistency beyond emotions.

The insurance companies want to make money.

There are no (enforced) laws prohibiting this behavior.

Very few insurance company decision makers are murdered in the street.

Change one or more of these, and you’ll get better results.

You guys fell for the ragebait embarrassingly easily

Microsoft should maybe evaluate why so many people read about the alleged horrible AI+Subscription model and went “yeah that sounds like something microsoft would do.” Their brand is in the shitter.

Pretty much every decision Microsoft has made for years has been bad. Why not one more?

If someone posted that Valve is moving to a subscription model, much of the response would probably contain “This seems out of character for them”

Surely we’ve all seen the relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1217/

I don’t know why someone down voted this.

I’ve had several friends block off time on their calendar for i-dont-know-what. It was marked as busy and it could’ve been anything from napping to elden ring. It’s their time.

Though I think a lot of people don’t use a calendar for their personal life and I can’t relate to that level of chaos. I can’t remember my plans and everyone’s birthdays in my head.