One irony of this is that people are fleeing twitter for fear that they won't squish bad speech enough, but the platform is designed to make it impossible to squish bad speech. All you can do is remo… (View Post)

Your Twitter feed consists of the people you choose to follow. (Make sure to switch it to "latest" to keep it like this.) If your feed is shitty, that's because of your shitty choices. (View Post)

I'm gonna wait and see how he gets on. Elon Musk is full of shit, just because he says he's going to do something doesn't mean he is. Tesla and SpaceX managed to do some big, important things, so I'd… (View Post)

You could replace it with a vacuum or pretty much any other household appliance, they'd all be an improvement. (View Post)

We have this kind of tax in Japan. It definitely helps keep house prices down. Every year you pay 1.4% of the value of the property (as assessed by a slightly mysterious formula). It's not a lot, but… (View Post)