I learned to touch-type QWERTY in late 90s chat rooms. By 2006, I was bragging about my 100 WPM speed in my online dating profile. I met one girl who challenged me to a typing contest. She won, then I won, and then we called it a draw. We've been married for 13 years and had our third child last month.

When I was learning to touch type, I found it helpful to practice in my head even when I was away from the keyboard. Like whatever I'm thinking about, I'm picturing a keyboard in my head and where each letter of each word is. It slows my thoughts down a little, but that's not always a bad thing.

I live in an extremely humid area, and I can tell immediately when the engine stops, because it starts bringing in the heavy, outside air. I turn off auto stop every single time. I'd prefer not to have it in my car.

On the other hand, obviously fuck this bullshit ad. The content of the ad is gross, the use of stereotypes is gross, the fact that it's generative AI is gross, and it's especially gross that all this is coming from the government. I'm disgusted by this whole thing, and it's only 8AM, which is actually a little late in the day to start feeling disgusted by the Trump regime now that I think about it.

I remember bringing a Polaroid picture of my 10" television screen into my English class just to prove to my best friend that the Hylian loach existed.

He looks like he's waiting for you to answer his riddle.

There's a couple of cyber trucks in my neighborhood, and one of them drops his kid off at my daughter's school in the morning.

Still drives a cyber truck though.

Technically I'm in a city. It's just suburban and car-centric. If they wanted to make it more walkable and add public transport, I'd love that, as long as my kids still have their space to ride bikes, and my wife still has her car.

Even then it's fairly walkable. I walk my daughter to school when the weather and time allow for it. I could walk to a grocery store; I just couldn't transport my groceries home.

But that wasn't the question.

If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

Could I afford it? Yes. Would I do it? No.

I live on a suburban cul-de-sac where my kids can go outside and ride bikes with the neighbors. Also my wife is handicapped, so a car is kind of essential for her. When we lived in an apartment the long walk from the garage to our door was difficult for her.

Other than those things, I'd much prefer to live in a walkable city. Maybe when I retire, if we can find the right place.

I've had many different cheeses on my burgers. I'm sure I've even had a gouda burger. They can be fine if you're going for like a specialty burger with other non-standard toppings, but a straight-up cheeseburger? That's not what proper Dutch cheese is made for, so why would you use it like that?

Different ingredients are better in different contexts.

If you think Kraft Singles have no flavor, then we must not be talking about the same thing. There's much better American cheese than Kraft Singles, but I can't imagine describing them as bland.

Look, nobody is eating cubes of American cheese and pretending it's gouda. It's for cheeseburgers and grilled cheese sandwiches. It's uniquely suited for it. It melts better. The flavor is strong and unsubtle, which matches well with a well-seasoned burger or stands on its own in a grilled cheese.

Just because you don't understand a food doesn't mean it's bad.

"Immigration tactics" again being a euphemism for "shooting innocent people in the face in broad daylight."

The fediverse is not like email. It's more like a series of decentralized social networks that can communicate with each other.