I never understand somebody just simping for a corporation like that. You can be a fan of their stuff and dislike how they run the company. Being a Mario or Zelda fan doesn’t mean you have to stick up for terrible decisions made by suits.

Nintendo: great games, terrible company. So yeah, I play their shit, but I don’t give them any money.

Bitter foods are an acquired taste. Sweet foods are not. I remember reading somewhere that sweet foods become less attractive once you’ve grown up, but nothing about bitter foods becoming more attractive.

I always thought that people acquire a taste for coffee for the same reason they acquire a taste for beer: repeated exposure. Coffee is the cheapest caffeinated drink (at least in the US), and beer is the cheapest alcoholic drink. Both taste like ass the first time you drink them, but you put up with the taste because you want to get wired or drunk. After repeated exposure, some people grow to like the taste.

Because black coffee tastes even worse than Monster does. (And has a lot less caffeine.)

It’s a website where you can buy music. I prefer having music in OGG or Opus format, and most of the time you can only get MP3. Bandcamp gives you the option to download your music in several formats, and one of them is OGG.

That’s starting to change, because I can find more file-sharers who are using FLAC as storage becomes cheaper. Then I can convert FLAC to Opus. However, Bandcamp also gives you the option to stream music from their app, and it’s nice to have access to so much music on my phone.

You can’t be both the underdog and the king at the same time

So, you hate the New Testament, too?

“Hiccough” is a good one. I always hated that spelling and prefer “hiccup” for that reason.

TIL those are both pronounced the same way. (Gaol/jail is worse, though.)

Yes, English is weird, but this word still breaks rules. “Gh” (pronounced “f”) is never at the beginning of a word, and “ti” (pronounced “sh”) is never at the end.

Yes. I find them on Bandcamp.

Why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway? What is the deal?

Oh, I used to do this all the time. You see a word in print, but you never hear anybody say it, so you wind up pronouncing it wrong.

I think the best was when I pronounced “misled” as my-seld because I thought it was the past tense of “misle”.

This reminds me of the time I had a co-worker tell me “That’s why they call it ‘work’. 'Cause you’re working!”

Chiasmus…A B B A

Is this where ABBA got their name from? Mind blown.

hhhuuuuggggssss

That’s what I heard, too. He has a habit of naming his software projects after himself: Linux, git.

For them, I guess. I can imagine some folks would be embarrassed to tell people that they use GIMP for the same reason.

I was part of a coding bootcamp, and one day the class was talking about git. Somebody mentioned that “git” is also a word used as an insult, like “That guy is a total git”. When I revealed that was where the name came from, several students audibly gasped, and a couple said something like “Oh, how embarrassing!” I had the weirdest sense of culture shock, and I had no doubt those students would make very good corporate drones.

Fascists can act out their power fantasies in a healthy, consensual way in the bedroom. Not in my government!

Voting for the Green Party is the bare minimum. Voting for Democrats or Republicans is capitulation.

I don’t think that voting for the same two parties is going to change that. Those two parties got us into this; they aren’t going to get us out.