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To be fair to humans, 90% of the workday is spent using bizarre internal corporate speak that has evolved for indirectness approaching meaninglessness. It’s asking a lot to recogni…

I file use of the word “entitlement” right alongside use of the word “respect.” The only people who ever use the words inflict them as asymmetrical projections of their own abusive…

I love the book on so many levels. My copy is swollen and waterlogged, and held together with packing tape. I love it for all the Latin I relearned, but I love it even more for eve…

As someone afflicted with holding on to junk that might be useful someday, myself, I often pity Trump on the matter of the “boxes.” It’s so clear that he has 1) desperately insecur…

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Inflation and rising interest rates sure seem like they can explain so much of the puzzle... especially timing. But Twitter is an especially interesting piece of that puzzle. It se…

I can’t figure out r/sports’s moderation rules. Every now and then I will accidentally reply there because something bubbles up to my front page. I discovered 90% of my comments th…

I personally contend that the official Reddit app has already hidden that knowledge. And that it is abusive. As do many others. We are overwhelmed by the urgent imminence of delibe…

Lately, I’ve seen comments copied verbatim from lower in the very same comment section. They’ll find a comment with upvotes rising above its thread neighbors, but with the entire t…

I sold my house to PE. I work for a conglomerate that was captured by a vulture capitalist and immediately flipped to PE. I’ve been thinking a lot about PE. I think PE is this deca…

I lived about 40 years under a sort of social truce with tipping culture. Tipping is inherently too transactional and too patronizing for my comfort. But the social construct, incl…