As a resident of the City of Seattle, I am pretty sure immigration is not what is keeping me from affording a home.

That’s a mood I know well. Sometimes I’d be struck by emotional flashbacks. All the effort and passion I put into working on it comes crashing back, the pride and pain inseparable from one another. The hardest part is seeing it go on without you, knowing you can’t contribute to it anymore.

The thing I don’t understand about the incel geek counterrevolution that dominates the other place is that more girls getting into comic books, video games and cartoons was like the best thing that ever happened to me before my 30s

You will always have more in common with those being ground under than with those who profit from the turning of the gears.

I've struggled with my thoughts about the death penalty, because there are some monsters who are so horrible that my personal rage wants to see them dead. But the state is incapable of being the arbiter of capital punishment, and the justice system is unfixably racist. Abolish the death penalty.

She blep!

Always remember that tolerance is not a moral virtue - it's a social contract. Bigots are in breach of that contract, and therefore not covered by it. None of us are obligated to accept bigotry as "a difference of opinion." We're morally obligated NOT to.

Anyway despite thinking there's uses for the tech I have an innate distrust of people who want to apply it because they're frequently high-ups who are looking for a means to strong-arm the creative process. The industry has no shortage of dudes who go to great lengths to have their ideas dominate.

Or oil billionaire-funded foundation cash.

Every time I see the words "Trump assassination attempt," I think of the debate, and not that guy in the bushes.