ElfinTrousers

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If you're under 70 years old you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised a brutal cyberpunk dystopia. Ḋone.
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Comment · 3 years ago
You know, we could save a lot on consultants if we had LLMs write the BS reports.
Comment · 3 years ago
Alternate headline: two ostensibly smart people waste time on nonsense.
Comment · 3 years ago
I feel ridiculous having to explain this, but it's possible to know the name of a place and still get it wrong when you intend to write it down, or overlook a mistake when reading it over.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's not, it's Business Insider. It's journalism-flavored entertainment.
Comment · 3 years ago
> If you're surprised to find occasional micro-aggressions in small towns, well... bless your heart.

There's reasons plenty of people prefer cities over large towns. At least in the city, people will have the decency to just directly tell you to go fuck yourself. Saves time.

Comment · 3 years ago
BREAKING NEWS: Small town Germans not effusively welcoming to representative of foreign military, yuppie wife who expects place to work like California.
Comment · 3 years ago
Or perhaps, just spitballing here, we could find something actually useful to do with the excess energy.
Comment · 3 years ago
Only if you expect people running large companies (tech or no) to not be uptight control freaks.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm sure the failson/daughter is a phenomenon with literally ancient roots. To paraphrase the Bible, the rich will be with you always.
Comment · 3 years ago
No kidding, this review made me very interested in reading the novel. I wonder if something about a depiction of anxious, uptight, pretentious and rudderless hipsters struck a little close to home for the reviewer.
Comment · 3 years ago
Do human editors catch every mistake? No.
Comment · 3 years ago
It was sure a good stress test for my eyes.
Comment · 3 years ago
I tried too. Awful. And the biggest chumbox I've ever seen in my damn life at the bottom.
Comment · 3 years ago
To be fair, the US doesn't have everything, but it does have a lot, so I can see how you could get this idea if you weren't a particularly imaginative or curious person.
Comment · 3 years ago
The real reason is #4: it's simpler for the school, as they don't have to run several different bus services.

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