this is the way

To tack on to this, a thing my partner taught me: a shortcut to calling someone stupid is calling something they love stupid.

Trying to understand why they like that thing is a more connective and productive path. Maybe at the end of it you end up more informed and still don’t like the thing, but for me often times it turned a knee jerk “that thing is dumb” into a thing I love with people who also love that thing. What a great life hack.

I still think about how great Castle Quest for the BBC was. That game was killer

What a dream!! This is something I have wanted for a long time, and can't wait to set this up

Protests let people at home who are feeling alone in their frustration that there are many more people who feel like them. I also felt like you did until someone framed it that way for me.

A protest isn’t supposed to be a singular event, it’s a series of events that crescendos into a movement—and it’s the crescendo that scares the people in power.

Then, since there are more people who voted for the current administration, there can be even more powerful counter protests. Then we can have people fighting in the streets, then a civil war.

Are you really trying to say that people should not protest, unless they are the overwhelming majority or easily ignored, because their protest will (or even just might) turn into a civil war?

Civil war may be a necessary war, eventually.

Crescendoing into a movement doesn't /do/ anything. This is just self-satisfaction for the kinds of people who like protesting.

Other things like voting and getting elected do actually do something.

Wow I love this so much, and nice to see Gina’s name again!

Gina and Lifehacker were an early catalyst into my own web programming career arc, and that was such a moment in time.