I always wonder what they mean about personalized music. Is it like “I’m in the mood today to listen to a dark blues song… Make the lyrics about my dead dog ben in the style of _”?

Is there anyone who’d prefer that than to listen to real music made by another human that had similar feelings (of grief maybe) as you are feeling right now? To me, at least, a big point of art is being able to share and connect with others.

As someone from a tropical climate area, every time I read this I chuckle. Mints will die if you look at them wrong for a split second here.

It’s a giant crosswalk… It’s at least twice the size of the planter.

Yeah, I don’t blame the biker, but I was very surprised how he didn’t react at all to the guy, not even grabbing onto him so that he couldn’t easily throw him down.

Murdered*

Although that might indeed have been part of the reason in some cases, the real reason is always money.

They have all those big office buildings around, which had a cost and are worth some real money today. If they allow those to be left empty, it is just a question of time before they start losing value and real estate investment would come crashing, a lot of money would disappear from the market that way. The inconvenience of an employee is worth much less than whatever stupid capital gains they might be able to get on their business real estate investments.