I call everyone dude, or man, especially when I’m excited. Idc what your gender is, you’re still my dude.

How is a piss poor documentary with zero marketing making it into so many theaters?

My condolences for your lost time and brain cells.

2 sounds rad, but really expensive, hard to pull off, and might scare some potential dates away if you’re still dating.

It’s hard to go wrong with 3.

Riding a motorcycle has always been pretty intuitive to me, but I grew up glued to my bicycle, so it all clicked pretty fast once I learned how to manage the extra weight.

I can’t imagine not shifting a motorcycle. It’s like being part of the bike. But I’ve ridden for 30+ years.

Btw I now understand the hate towards manual cars. Automatic should be the only option

This is a big problem with people these days. You admitted you suck at driving, you’re just barely learning how to do it, but you think you’re qualified to mandate what is available to everyone else? You do not have enough experience to have an opinion that affects other people. Stick shift is completely intuitive when you know how to do it.

Yes, it’s one of the most useful keys. I haven’t used file explorers for applications in forever. Hit the Windows key, type a couple letters of the program you want, hit enter.

I don’t hate my job. As a matter of fact, I quite like it. But I promise you I would find something different to do if I had enough money to retire.

Jobs with less responsibility typically have less vacation time too, and pay a lot less money.

I train my dogs in scent/detection sports and tracking now

I’ve been training our puppy in scent work. It’s pretty fun. He gets so excited when he finds his little birch tree oil soaked cotton ball in a perforated tin.

Create a better purpose than slinging hours for dollars, my dude.

Whatever the fuck I feel like that day. Maybe some gardening, maybe some backpacking, maybe just laying on the couch and fucking around on my phone all day. The best part of this mythical retirement I’m teased with, is that I wouldn’t have any obligations on a day-to-day basis.

The Brits and the right are certainly chasing after that 1984 ideology though. Orwell is a fantastic writer, and 1984 is leagues above Fahrenheit 451 as a work of literature.

Way of Kings blew my mind when I first read it. I loved it so much. I read it again when the last book came out because I couldn’t remember everything that happened, and it’s still an amazing book on the second read. Unfortunately, each of the following books in the series is less enjoyable for me. I didn’t like the Rhythm of War at all. I know a lot of people love it, but it has become something I don’t appreciate at all. I don’t know if I’ll even finish the series, assuming Brandon ever finishes it himself.

That’s a great series. I recommended the first book to everyone I know after reading it. For another amazing story of compassion that circles around from everything from horror, to Kant, to AI intelligence, to religious extremism before it gets there, read The Hyperion Cantos.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is the most impactful book I’ve ever read. It completely changed my perspective of the system I was born into. A Farewell to Arms is the first book I read that mirrored my inner emotional state, and let me know it was okay for me to feel as I did back then. Both are top-tier books.

Gattica is a great movie, and a compelling story about the power of determination.

Most people are very opposed to eugenics and genetic modification of humans. There is infinite opportunity for unexpected disasters along the way to perfection, and it’s extremely apathetic to be okay with subjecting a sentient creature to the possible ramifications of unexpected outcomes.