Sadly, it only works if you’re selling hate and fear.

I think of Sanders as like a well-meaning version of Trump. He tells people simple, good-sounding things they want to hear. I trust that he truly cares about the working class, but his ideas are probably too big and vague for there to be a path to actually implement them in any Congress of this era. He’s aware of his recent popularity and maybe a little bitter that he hasn’t gotten much out of it. He’s only a Democrat himself to the extent he can gain more from calling himself that than an independent, so with little to lose at this point in his career he’s lashing out while he can win points kicking the Democrats.

I’ll use it for now while it’s good and ditch it if/when it enshittifies just as I ditched Reddit and Twitter. The mistake I won’t repeat is relying on it. If I have to bail, it won’t be difficult this time.

I think they’re implying that it can be rude to broadcast someone’s age, since some people like to be private about it.

I’m not going to start being an asshole out of nowhere but I will go after an asshole and tear them apart. I will never be mean or rude to someone who seems nice. And of course I won’t make fun of someone’s looks or weight or gender or race. But I do make a lot of jokes on other topics and people probably perceive me as rude sometimes when I don’t intend it. I don’t think it’s wrong to be a looser version of yourself here than in real life. Within reason.

It was 13 years ago but I still can’t forget the typo.

A friend posted a link to something and mentioned me saying “you’re hyper literal brain will like this” and when I got done being annoyed about the typo I realized for the first time I am excessively literal.

Another time at lunch with a friend she mentioned in an offhand way that I have anxiety and that was when I first realized what anxiety is and that it’s not normal to feel the way I do all the time.

Oh word?

What’s even the best case scenario of eating McDonald’s food?

Nothing is strictly necessary, you can tell instead of show any aspect of a relationship. But if drama is going to show a representative cross section of what human relationships are like, sex will be a part of that like romance and friendship aspects are.

They’re more biologically necessary. They are less important to storytelling.

Drama is largely about character relationships and sex is a part of that. There’s rarely any drama to our necessary biological functions. Pooping can be part of a story’s plot like sex, just much less often.

The sex scenes that most mainstream dramas have traditionally had are brief and not explicit.

Sex is an important part of one’s life, bowel movements aren’t. (Hopefully)

Writing a story and having to make my characters not want to have sex because of the existence of an unrelated industry outside the context of their universe.

Striking out any gambling references in my stories because of the rise of online gambling.

Then I realize I’ve stupidly written scenes where my characters eat, having forgotten like a stupid hack how many restaurants there are in the real world.

Election Day is traditionally the day to vote, campaigns are still running before that point. Anyone who votes earlier does so with less information than later voters. Trump could say something stupid between now and Election Day, and wouldn’t you feel bad if you’d already voted for him and couldn’t take it back?

Same reason morning is earlier in the day than night. This is just how linear time works.

We need to communicate our sexual identity clearly at a high level because we all need to work out with each other who can date or fuck who.

We don’t have as much practical reason to know each other’s specific experience with autism right away. And if you are close to someone and need to understand their autism at a lower level, their personal situation is more complicated than being one of five or six types.

And if you do need to understand someone’s sexuality at a low level, it could also be more complicated and individualized than just being one letter. But knowing that one letter with sexuality helps as a start.

Fuck you, I’m not wading through your fuckass prompts when I could toggle one simple switch.

The elephant in the room is that “data” is not a solution to this in any meaningful way.

It’s easy to use data to recommend products that are similar to the ones you’ve enjoyed. But we don’t need algorithms for that. We don’t even need computers for that. Follow the genres/categories you know you like.

The subtle and mysterious things that are unique to each of us that cause us to like one game but hate another game that’s objectively similar to it, data won’t solve that because we don’t even understand it well.

Another reason recommendation algorithms don’t work well is because they’re designed to maximize profit, not satisfaction.