When I was a cashier they recommended we not do this kind of thing, because there are some fast-talk scams people will do to get more money. Like they’ll give you more money, say something confusing, take the money back, and then you give them the extra change, except more sophisticated than that.

Could be, but that’s immature and unattractive. You’re better off not throwing in with someone who’s unwilling to be vulnerable

I read they’re using react, the JavaScript library, for the start menu. If true that strikes me as insane

They want to emphasize certain words, but don’t really have the confidence and writing skills to do so in other ways

Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. This is haunting.

Some strikingly high percentage can’t complete complicated tasks on a computer (eg: find 3 user email addresses and add them to a spreadsheet).

Reading the manual is good advice but I think some people are just left behind

That sounds psychosomatic but I’m not a professional. You take care of yourself.

Not counting nice walks in prospect Park, I can get on the metro north train and go on a variety of hikes. It’s not 20 steps, but I also get all the other benefits of a city.

Also Manhattan isn’t known for smog, and there is a lot more to New York than Manhattan. Go look at like park slope or Astoria

They said the problem was “widespread”. I’m saying it’s not like everywhere you look, but it feels worse than it is if you only go to the high traffic areas where homeless people go to beg for help.

Cost of living is rising higher than salaries everywhere. This isn’t unique to New York.

The fact that homeless people exist is a poor reason to avoid New York, in my view. People act like you’re going to be wrestling with the homeless every day.

We should do more than ignore the homeless, but that’s a separate conversation.

I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist

If you live here you don’t really go through Penn station. That’s a major commuter hub.

I’ve lived here for years and only go there if I need to go to NJ transit for some reason (which isn’t often).

That’s like thinking all of NJ is Secaucus train station, or all of someplace else is just the airport. It’s not representative.

I’m confident whatever you are imagining is not the daily lived experience of new york city. People picture like times square in 1973 on new years eve and also classic film the warriors. Go look at like park slope on google street view (or another similar service of your choosing).

Yes, it’s very common. There are many reasons.

Sometimes I’m just excited to share something. Could be something trivial (“i saw a cat on the walk over and it looked right at me and said ‘meow’!”). Could be something bigger (“They finally fired Useless Bob at work”)

Sometimes people want to vent. Talking about something can be emotionally soothing.

Sometimes people want help or advice. “I can’t believe I’m spending $20 a day on lunch. The stupid sandwich I got wasn’t even good. What’s your strategy?”

Humans are social creatures.

Unless the conflict was like “someone close to me is giving birth” tier, he could have scheduled better.

Ah yes, the classic “these things share one property so they share all properties” argument.

Blinking closes your eyes. You can safely drive and blink. Thus, you can drive safely with your eyes closed.

Distracted driving is pretty irresponsible and dangerous.

Just this morning some guy blew through a stop sign and almost hit me. He had his cell phone in hand. Maybe he was on a meeting, too.

I was going to say something smug about living in a walkable city so I don’t need to drive, but I still have to deal with idiot drivers being a danger to pedestrians and bikers.

I don’t think I understand it, then

Is this a bit? are you demonstrating the meme on purpose?

Whatever’s built into pycharm or vscode for looking at diffs. Command line for push pull squash etc

Not on its own. If someone’s using it a lot and giving other hate signals, I’ll suspect that they know what they’re doing.