“You have been infected with Calvinism. Cures range from education to lobotomy.”

Any two monotonically increasing or decreasing trends can be charted on two different axes to look like a near-perfect correlation.

This graph is a great example of how to present data in the most dishonest ways possible.

That game and $20 spent at Taco Bell made for many very good weekend nights.

We have been running this experiment with L and G for a long time. Come out, and now you’re homeless. Your identity is STFU until college, come out carefully on campus, and when you’re economically free, then be you. Until then, take the psych damage.

By that time, T has not only taken the mental health hit, they’ve faced real physical health consequences.

There’s no guessing what happens. We have the evidence.

“Do one thing well” isn’t a philosophy that ages out. Every time that is forgotten, you’re creating more tech debt. The effort required to retire tech debt is the biggest reason Windows is the travesty it is. Aging monolithic kernel-like monsters like systemd will be are a problem to be avoided with foresight and that simple philosophy.

Ignore it, you get C:Windows\System32\ntoskrnl.exe

That’s something Roddenberry was good at. Someone was talking to him about the grav boots, and his reply was basically “don’t explain shit, the fanboys will work it out.”

George Lucas: “MiDiChLoRiAnSSSSSSS!!!”

This isn’t “stupid, idiotic stuff.” It’s malicious. It’s to make sure trans kids get the shit kicked out of them by their intolerant parents.

This is a very accurate description of Bonk’s Adventure for the TurboGrafix 16.