Has it not occurred to you that writers know both HTML and Markdown? This is the em-dash complaint on steroids. “My god, they’re formatting correctly” is less an indication on its own of LLM use than the low standards people now expect from writing. “We need errors or it isn’t real!”

There used to be people who fixed that for a living. We called them editors.

RATS!

I was in Charlottesville in 2003, and it was very much a college town with that level of rent available. I had a cute little utilities-included cottage as a copyed.

As a point of perspective, the last time I made less than $26K was in 2003. Totally doable when rent is $400.

I’ve always found the labor participation rate to be a better source than U-4. The latter is convenient, because once the system has beaten you down, you disappear from the statistics. It’s a very clear indicator that “if you’re not willing to work for less money than you need to survive, you hold no value to society.”

This is triage. “That shouldn’t have happened” is not a luxury I have time to ponder. What’s at hand is the issue.

I mean, the loan was $250 to start … I had some cash. But this is basically a payday loan. She was going to drive me to Austin for my Arizona flights as interest, so on the surface, it was going to be some $70 more than booking Lyfts, with the benefit of having a dedicated ride. Win-win. Until …

I get the joke, but, like … sometimes people end up in fucked situations. To default to assuming subterfuge kinda destroys the whole point of community.

Because I’m a decent person and wanted to keep her from going without a vehicle.

I generally appreciate their reporting, but there is a crucial missing datapoint: compared to what, historically? And referring to “Klamath Lake” will generally get you a “which one?” response. (Source: adopted a kitty in K Falls.)

That fucking sucks. I’ve never owned my own place, but I’ve definitely had the experience of maintenance taking their sweet-ass time on very basic plumbing issues and flooding my apartment as a result. That ran me $700.

Hope the wife’s enjoying the new office. That honestly looks larger than my van.

Fox is currently in the leadership position for the pool. They aren’t just ancillarily signing on; they made the call to shut the whole fucking thing down. They know full well that if this flies, once the MAGA folks sober up, the network is at extreme risk for targeting from a new president. Obama kinda tried to do that, but it was quickly walked back. And in that case, the rest of the corporate media stood in solidarity with Fox.

It’s easy to say “one side this, one side that,” but at the end of the day, regardless of politics, access to the White House is necessary for, you know, covering the fucking White House. And journalists are hyperaware of history, so this sort of prior restraint immediately links to “first, they came for …”

I hear it’s not easy being green.

Honestly, pretty fucking terrible, but I suppose that’s the way pendulums work. I took out a loan last month, maxing out my credit line, so that my ex-wife could make a car payment. The radiator died a couple of weeks later, and now she’s saying she won’t pay me back because I paid for something that doesn’t work.

So, in two days, that loan is due, and I am fucked.

Unrelated, my mom is now pissed off with me for calling her out on the fact that she’s turned the Arizona trip to scatter my dad’s ashes into some sort of social excursion featuring four days in Tucson. I don’t want to be in Arizona in the first place, and I hope to hell this is the last time I have to visit. But more specifically, I dislike Tucson even more than Phoenix, which was supposed to be the main event, as that’s where I grew up. I’m just this side of telling her that if she wants to make this a vacation instead of a final necessary act, she can do it her damn self.

It’s of course unsurprising, but I agree that having hard data, especially this stark, is useful.

Fair enough. I love the spirit of your intent. But we’re already wildly self-selecting for people versed in any level of opsec by just assuming they know how to SSH into a headless Pi if something goes wonky, plus know *NIX terminal commands.

I would say that for general users, switching to Firefox and getting uBO is enough. That much is very easily done by the layperson (and honestly would be sufficient for people looking at cat photos and reading email). From there, we veer off into needing technical skills.

I ran a newsroom for the 2000 election and pushed deadline back twice, so you probably have my age pegged correctly. I’m just saying that results, whenever they come, however they may be challenged, are definitively news. Campaigning isn’t.

I don’t know why you’re on the warpath for me reiterating a three-year-old rule because of recent issues. I said post politics in Politics and your response was disproportionate. Now you’re smearing me as being unkind for doing basic server-janitor stuff that really hasn’t been an issue for years, accusing me of not knowing what news is, and telling me I’m the one being unreasonable.

I’m also not stalking you. I’m a user of the site. So of course I see posts in other communities. The reasonable response here would have been to post politics in politics. Instead, you chose to test my boundaries by posting entertainment news to U.S. News as some sort of flex.

As I said, it doesn’t appear you understand how Beehaw works. If you wholesale dislike it, I’m not sure why you continue to show up.

There’s a certain irony to wanting more control over what you see in Politics while complaining about U.S. News. It’s possible you’re simply not aligned with the goals of Beehaw as a project, which is fine. But you seem to want the site changed according to your desires, and things just don’t work that way.

Firefox with uBO behind a pihole pointing to Quad9 and on a router-level VPN is sufficient for 99% of users. And the 1% know exactly who they are and will harden further.