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This is great. The speed aspect reminds me of the old AOL chatroom word scramble games. I personally love the timer, but I also do the newspaper anagrams without a pen, so I'm cert…

I mean, no one except the 30 million or so people who are paying for it. I'm quite happy with the GamePass selection, and I consider it an excellent value for me.

I don't really buy this argument. When you buy a physical product, you are paying the entire product lifecycle, not just the marginal aspect of retail distribution. This is the sam…

The meat is alive, actually. Sentient meat, if you can believe it.

This seems really cool for people whose friend networks are physically located in the same place they are. That's not me, and hasn't been for probably 20 years. But it's a neat ide…

I don't really need a social network for the people I'm already in close proximity with. But, I'm glad they're making an attempt here, at least.

I was just in Aomori this past week (to see the sakura blossoms in Hirosaki). We literally left Sunday night, and while it seems like there really wasn't any concern in the city, I…

I know that it's just a super common distinction between pilers and filers, but I really struggle to comprehend the usefulness of just "dumping everything" in one place and hoping …

We still have "both" and it's quite commonly used. It's even used _in_ the article, and in several comments here in this very discussion.

The medium is the message. I feel like this should be more obvious in 2026 than at any other time in history. If the author does not care to take the time to craft their message, w…

I immediately suspected AI writing. Then I quickly checked a couple of their older posts, and sure enough: completely different tone, language, grammar. There may come a day when w…

More than one solution can exist for the same problem.

> "Today it's gambling advertising, tomorrow it's alcohol, then it's sugary drinks, fast food, critical minerals and who knows what else comes next," chief executive Kai Cantwell s…

I would say that it is less that DoorDash makes it worse than it is that DoorDash's model removes any incentive for making it better.

This has been common parlance in much of the US for a long time. I would hesitate to even call it slang at this point. It's a pretty commonly used term.

Not the person you asked but: ADHD is a debilitating neurological disorder, not a mild inconvenience. Believe me, I wish that just drinking coffee and "trying harder" was a solutio…

It's very presence in the list is already a drain on my attention that I didn't ask for and do not want. The fact that it requires any action on my part to remove it from the queue…

I will not hide my disappointment that this headline was not, in fact, referring to the classic adventure game.

The AI turned me into a newt!

In the long run, this makes for very interesting rhetorical analysis of the work. Your example of Braveheart, for instance, involves two views of the past through the lens of the _…

I hope so. Random accusations of "this feels like AI" don't add anything to the conversation and are genuinely harmful to those accused when there is no AI involved. AI has it's de…

I would consider it more of a necessary evil than a flaw. Both the writer and the audience need to be able to connect with the story, and you're just going to have a better connect…

It's a construct that long predates AI. And using it with such intensity and frequency is more likely a sign that this _wasn't_ AI generated, since AI writing tends to _not_ repeat…

Just a note, because I think the footer might be confusing: this essay was written by just one person. There are 24 essays each year, each one written by a different anonymous cont…