Today, young slaves have to live in their parents hut.

I went to Walmart today, and I had to let a man who should be in a retirement home look at my receipt so I could leave, after buying something that needed to be unlocked and carried to the register.

I drove down the road, and saw a McDonald's that was basically abandoned, as the entire parking lot was filled with a dozen or so homeless people camping there.

Then I get online, and I see a video of a woman being beaten while carrying a get well present, seemingly for no reason. And the general reaction is "we need to punish the gosh darn animal who did this!!1"

Punishing one guy will not save the next victim from another random assault. It will not save the next business from a massive homeless camp. It will not make it so I can buy stuff without waiting for someone to unlock it. It will not make it so an 80 year old isn't looking at my receipt when I try to leave. This is like suggesting you start taking an aspirin when you have stage four cancer. I can't believe people are okay living like this.

Man, people have no idea how bad things are about to become.

I’ve noticed a pattern with film critics that The Odyssey reminded me of: the more annoying they find a movie, the more they fixate on flaws they’d otherwise ignore. This triggers defenders who scrutinize the critics in turn, leading to endless back-and-forth until the original issue with the film is completely lost.

I’m renting a house since the hospital I’ve been going to is over 100 miles from my house. It’s really nice, but we have no control over the AC, and after 7AM it automatically sets itself to 85 F, and it does not go back to 75F until 9pm. But by that point the house is a sweat box, and so it does not cool off until like 4am. Now I kind of wish that humans were cold blooded.