small annoyances like it shifting up when you know you need to slow down in a second to take a corner, and then it’s in the wrong gear and it has to shift down again when you need to accelerate out of the corner

I mean, no modern automatic acts like this. It shifts up when you're accelerating, shifts down when you're decelerating. I guess if you're a lead foot, it would make more difference. Or if you're driving a race car. Not your typical road driving.

That's because every version of Windows since XP has been kind of dogshit

Oh I have literally thought of this too. Maybe a bit more like Cops or if The Office was a real paper company office... but at a software company. So many fires to put out, so many blockers, so much drama between design / pm / dev / qa / execs, etc. Launch date blockers. Post-release hotfix nightmares. It could work

automatic transmissions are still more expensive than manual ones

Is it still though? I dare say it is becoming increasingly common (in the US) that in order to get a manual transmission you have to make a special order.

Try this: stand up, walk to the other side of the room and back

I mean, I have spondylitic arthritis, but okay. (Luckily I got on the good meds again.)

which steak do you think will turn out the most delicious?

Ah but the question wasn't quality, it was convenience.

Even if you argue that after a while the less convenient becomes familiar, that doesn't really mean it was more convenient, it was just not inconvenient for you. But I have to say even if you're a seasoned manual driver, not having to shift every 25mph is arguably more convenient than having to, even if you've gotten used to it.

People got used to climbing stairs, doesn't mean we stopped using elevators.

I'm really torn on that. Because I want media to be unbiased, but I also want media to tell the truth.

Most media will simply report the truth of what other people say is the truth.

I suppose I'd opt for unbias over bias if those were the two options.

Dark Crystal vibes

Nearly every respectable major news outlet that has commentary tries to invite commentary from multiple sides. They also probably didn't know what he would become or his ulterior motives.

It was an opinion piece by a guest columnist.

Who is a piece of shit, but regardless.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Outrage_Inc.html

he is derekahunter on siteformerlyknownasbirdsite

Wellllllllll

It actually wasn't, but someone claimed it was, and would sue people who used it. Most would settle and agree not to use it. This is also why most chain restaurants had their own alternative birthday songs.

It was only that in 2016 somebody actually said to them "prove it" and took them to court, which found their copyright claim to be without merit.

Incidentally, there is no penalty for this.

Your life is the way it is because you've decided that it's more comfortable to leave it that way than to change it.

Srsly years and years of therapy this was the only thing that did anything for me

"I tell the future"

"Okay, tell me mine"

"Soon... You will go to Rome."

"But I'm in Rome."

"Do I lie?"