No, I mean the whole chart should be rotated, including the labels. I want “freedom” to be across the bottom and “proprietary” to be across the top, so that it matches “libertarian” and “authoritarian” on the political compass.

(“Tradition” and “disruption” don’t map to “left” and “right” quite as well, but if it were exact it would just be the political compass instead of just analogous to it.)

This whole chart should’ve been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.

That’s the thing, whether or not they’re valid depends on the person you’re asking.

No it fucking doesn’t! There are people who think that, but they’re wrong.

Moral relativism is bullshit.

(Note: Do not do this. Court reality is different from everyday life honorable reality. Get a lawyer, don’t say shit, fight to negotiate a better deal and threaten to waste their time and resources making them prove it if they don’t work something out with you. That is what a person will do if they want a good outcome. My priorities were different, I guess, I don’t know. I will say that in this case it didn’t wind up getting me in any more trouble than I would have been anyway. Mostly I’m just telling what happened to me and how I reacted and why.)

See, that’s the whole fucking problem: as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that even if you want to be ethical, systems in society have been designed by sociopaths to exploit that inclination and punish you for it. From a game theory perspective, trying to be a good person in 2025 America has become a losing strategy.

The adversarial court system is one example, but increasingly fucking everything is like that. Tipping at restaurants is a tax on being nice. Deregulated utilities, insurance companies, telecoms, and all sorts of recurring-payment businesses like that form confusopolies to punish customers who don’t threaten to switch to competitors every six months. With digital goods, rentals are misrepresented as sales. There are contracts of adhesion with mandatory binding arbitration clauses everywhere. Everybody tries to screw you at every turn, daring you to go full Karen to fight with them to honor their agreements.

emerge from your parents’ basement

(challenge level: impossible)

I still have two 19" CRTs stockpiled in my basement in case I ever decide to build a retro arcade cabinet and want authenticity.

First of all, you’re wrong: any sailboat that has a cabin for living aboard, even if it’s a shitty dilapidated Catalina 27 that you buy for $1, is a “yacht.”

Second, even if you were right, don’t bitch at me, bitch at the article writer. They’re the ones who first called it a “yacht,” even though from the video you can clearly see that it’s way smaller than 24 meters.

I found another article about the incident that contained enough information to track down exactly which boat it was: “Oceanview” owned by Nautic Squad Club, a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349. Only 34 feet long, yet still described as a “yacht” by literally everybody but you.

By the way, most of the listings for that model of boat on Yachtworld are under $200k.

That one guy at Rockstar, feeling incredibly validated right now:

My house cost $100k, and that’s also about the budget I have for a live-aboard boat.

What do you do in a boat???

A boat like this one? You fuckin’ live in it instead of a house (and at a much lower cost).

I mean, not this exact one from the article because it was a rental, but in general a lot of yachts in this ~40’ range are owned by couples and used for the nautical equivalent of #vanlife.

I’ve been thinking of buying a ~40’ sailboat like that (an older used one for <$100k, BTW), but it would be to live aboard full-time and become nomadic while either selling or renting out my house.

I’m guessing he’s complaining about either damage from anchors or toxic effects of anti-fouling paint.

You’d be surprised how many owners of 40-foot “yachts” own them instead of houses and live aboard full-time in order to save money (among other lifestyle reasons).

What people think of when they hear the word “yacht:”

The size of boat the whales are actually attacking:

I know everybody wants to root for the whales attacking the billionaire 1%, but that’s not what’s actually happening.

Those boats know what they did. I presume scraped some of their pod with propeller or something, they are revenging themselves.

IIRC the current theory is that it’s a game juvenile males started playing for fun.

Also, sailboats and orcas are not like powerboats and manatees. The notion that the boats somehow injured the orcas is not plausible for several reasons:

• A 40 foot sailboat tops out at about 10 mph, while orcas can swim over 3x that speed.
• Sailboat props are often directly behind the hull and surrounded by rudder, rather than protruding below it where it could hit an animal swimming below the boat.

Nah, that one just explains the mechanics of how it works. The video I linked is so good because it goes into the implications of it and explains how it is a fraud perpetrated against the populace that makes everything worse for nearly everyone, including the party perpetrating it.

Here’s a link to the specific timestamp where he gets into that part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdQjqUXuDc&t=468

In theory, because every congressperson lives in DC a large fraction of the year, every one represents them. Giving them their own rep on top of that would give them too much power. In theory.

Hank Green has a good video about that. I thought I understood gerrymandering before, but I didn’t fully appreciate all the implications until I watched that.

What business do people like that have trying to write one, then?!

I don’t mean to gatekeep, but… fuck it, I do mean to gatekeep: people should have a basic level of competence – or at least a shred of intellectual curiosity in becoming competent – to write software!