part of being an adult is doing the work in front of you that needs doing, regardless of "ought"s "supposed to"s

we all benefit from the next generation learning to treat others properly, regardless of our own parental status

I thin this is mostly for games like Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077, which are too big to actually fit on a cartridge.

We cut them out of the SWIFT payment system. All our economists were saying they wouldn’t last more than a few months. That was four years ago.

general anesthetics are so neat

like, you can just switch me off with a drug, and after a while I come back? weird, bizzar, and yet also practical. and (as far as I understand) it’s universal. Works on every living thing. They’ve anesthetized plants

I think (though i’m not certain) it was hyperbole. Emphasizing that the median resume would look unemployable to, like, a high paying consulting firm, like the sort that does work in DC.

nearly unemployable like the rest of us

i think they meant she was just another interchangeable employee “like the rest of us” rather than that she’s particularly unemployable for whatever reason

you can fix the online problems with a USB-to-ethernet adapter on the dock

May you live in exactly the kind of society you ask for.