Sold it 5 years ago for somewhere in the 700s. So ultimately it turned out okay. But there was an extremely awkward period where I had to move out and would have sold if it wasn’t underwater. I wound up becoming a landlord for several years which I wouldn’t have chosen and felt pretty scummy but it did save me in the long run.

Yep. Bought a residence for $500k and two years later it was worth $330K.

“Get into the housing market while you can.”

My brother, mid 2005.

Yes. True. I was trying to be conservative.

Yeah you’re right it’s more like doubled.

Whole generations lived and died just to find out which mushrooms can be eaten.

The world population has quadrupled in my lifetime, so I would be willing to believe the old bit about “more people are alive now than have ever died.” But it’s bunk. Estimated count of all people ever is 100 billion. There weren’t that many people in the past but our species goes back 50,000 years and that makes it up.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/

My kid still wears a mask obsessively. Her face is unevenly tanned. She wants to wear it for bike rides and literally everything aside from being at home.

Good edit to the title 👍 thanks for hearing the feedback

Oh I wasn’t saying that you were ignorant of it ever having been done. I just found your wording a little confrontational for a feature request. “Why are you ignoring this obvious feature?” is a very demanding way to make a feature suggestion, especially with a platform that is currently undergoing extreme growth and no doubt many growing pains for the developers to handle. Just present your idea and why it would be highly valuable to many people. And then step back and realize that it must be weighed against a thousand other things you aren’t even aware are going on behind the scenes.

Metafilter had this back in the day. Exactly as you describe: just a checkmaek saying “post this as anonymous.” The admin would review and moderate these requests and if approved, move the post to an account named “anonymous” so that it was no longer even connected to the user at all. Then it would start showing up on the site. It was a good feature and met a real need. However I don’t think we need to be all “why hasn’t this happened already???” about it.

Especially in English, which is incredibly idiosyncratic.

I have an English degree so obviously I care about this shit. But I’ve spent enough time in the world to understand that there is more than one kind of education. I know brilliant sofrware programmers who might fuck up less/fewer. They’re not stupid. They have lots of education. I’m an idiot compared to them when it comes to logic and math. I have a friend who’s a master gardener, accomplished photographer, welder, electronics teacher, small business owner, IT technician, and a really good cook. He probably screws up a word here and there. He’s vastly more educated and intelligent than me.

So yeah… we should all just back off on being pedants about grammar and vocabulary rules, just a little bit.

I tend to agree. But even though I have a degree in English literature and creative writing, and have worked as a journalist and editor, I still have a few things that I routinely mess up. My thing is: sometimes a word gets double letters in certain forms. Run / running. Got / gotten. But this doesn’t always happen. Walk / walking. There are however some forms of some words where I can’t remember what is correct to do. I’ve gotten it wrong and been corrected. I’ve gotten it right and second guessed myself. Both of those have happened so many times that I can no longer keep it all straight.

So I have some compassion perhaps for people who screw up to/too because they’re caught in a false mneumonic dilemma. (There’s a good example of my trouble with double letters, by the way - I always type “dilemma”).

I swear in some cases it’s more of a pathology and less just mere ignorance.

Everyone is below someone else somehow, since you use that word. I’m beneath my friend in film knowledge. I’m above my friend in gardening skill. In this sense, one can clearly be beneath someone else in education. Or height. Or travel experience.

You meant that regardless of education, we all have the same human worth. That’s true. But yeah you can absolutely be beneath me somehow