We all have a reality translator in our heads.

It’s called our own perception and biases.

If it paid $30/hr a lot of people would be able to overlook the downsides.

The business was only viable because it could get people to break their backs for peanuts.

First quote is the old lie:

“Most Americans don’t want to do this work“ ( at the wages we want to pay)

Your argument is shit. It’s basically “some tourists bad, therefore all tourism bad.”

Like how dare people want to see the world?

Putting it in a DB is the easy part.

It’s support in a thousand other systems that deal with addresses that’s the real problem.

For something like a street address, interoperability is a hell of a lot more important than culturally preferred spelling.

I never minded studying, but always hated writing essays, even though pretty good at it.

How do we train people to think, and validate that they learned, when they can outsource it to a computer?

The author alludes to oral exams, though they have a whole host of other issues.

Losing your sanity is much worse than losing your money.

The YouTube engineers working on advertising are tasked with maximizing revenue, not making the user experience better.

It’s a de-facto monopoly and the only way to get better user experience is through adblock.

Why do we keep electing sellout Democrats who won’t even do their jobs? We haven’t even had a real primary in 17 years.

They didn’t copy the gods, they just said it’s the same guy under a different name and we worship them too.

It’s like foreign fans of a domestic TV show.

They require ID for pickup at locations that experience a lot of theft.

Cost of remaking stolen orders has to exceed staff cost of checking IDs.

Wouldn’t want any 60 years olds creeping on 54s.

Yeah I don’t need to refill my battery in 2 hours, but it’s nice to be able to meaningfully top off between errands to make the most of a small PHEV battery.

Careful, telling people that Dessalines bans people for wrongthink is a good way to get banned for wrongthink.

It’s a passenger plane. I don’t think 200 people slid to the back of the plane after rotation.

Sounds like the planes Boeing sent to India had foreign object debris rattling around inside conduits.

That’s a ticking time bomb for random electrical failures, such as both engines shutting down right after takeoff.

Looks like it stalled due to lack of thrust. What could have killed both engines right after takeoff?

It wasn’t originally named the Countach, that’s just what someone said when they saw it, which is sort of like naming it the “Daaayum!”

That’s right up there with “Cake is bread for poors”

Avast, ye matey!