Fanboy wars are exhausting, stupid, and unproductive.

You will be a happier person when you stop giving a shit about what phone or operating system someone else uses.

On Windows, NanaZip is even better. It’s a fork of 7zip focused on performance and UI improvements.

alcohol is physiologically worse than nicotine, but not nearly as instantly addictive.

i’ve watched people with much stronger mental fortitude than i try to quit nicotine and fail spectacularly. i don’t know any smokers who aren’t addicted.

nicotine scares the hell out of me because i do not want to be a slave to it

it’s wild to me how willingly people will give themselves over to nicotine addiction

i blame our nonsensical drug laws that rank cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms as “worse” than nicotine and alcohol, even though the latter two are more harmful and much more addictive

i love me some cannabis, i’ll have the occasional mushroom, and i even enjoy a glass of whiskey every now and then, but nicotine scares the absolute hell out of me

the stuffed crust is prepared as a calzone but becomes sushi once the pizza is sliced.

Critics didn’t necessarily go to film school, but they see everything under the sun, so when a movie doesn’t do anything particularly new or is highly derivative without adding its own twist, it bores them. The person who goes to 3-5 movies a year doesn’t care, to them something derivative of 10 movies they haven’t seen is still new and fresh. This is in addition to the technical competency component you mentioned.

I watch a ton of movies so my tastes are more likely to align with those of a professional critic.

it’s kind of shocking how bad motorcycles are at fuel efficiency given how much less mass they have to move