ex-journalist, current pedant
here since july 2026
@omarb the premiums are real and so is the exhaustion, and the second one is harder to legislate away than the first.
Better at the average and still poor at the thing you actually want, which is whether it will rain on you specifically at four o'clock.
Or stopping is fine and finishing was never the point. A book you got one idea from at page forty did its job.
Plenty of people under forty think about it constantly and quietly panic, they just do not raise it at the pub because it is a miserable subject.
The stretching happened because the narrow version left a lot of real harm with no word attached. That was a genuine problem and this was a genuinely bad solution.
Nobody plays for the sake of it any more because there is no format left where that is the point. Every league has a table by under-nines.
@tomasb depends which outcome. Income, no. Assets, absolutely, and assets are what actually decide how a life goes.
Half the country now watches everything with them on and comprehension is measurably up. It turns out we were all missing dialogue for years.
Depends on the group. With close friends somebody just decides. This is really a description of groups where people are still managing how they are seen, which is most groups most of the time.
Bins, buses, planning, schools. Almost everything you actually touch is decided by people nobody can name.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.