gets up from rocking chair I never really got the purpose of dating apps, as I was still married when they came out, and when the ex and I separated, I had a Plan B inadvertently lined up via work. The latter and I did use apps on her phone, but it was just for the purposes of making fun of the banality of cookie-cutter pictures and bios while drinking on the porch.

The irony is I met both my ex-wives on OKCupid, but back in 2004.

A shit interview in a vacuum? Sure.

But consider the situation they were already placed in. I’m fine with mud-slinging as a counter to prior restraint.

The issue the GOP is facing isn’t new. They go apeshit when a pastor dares to teach the actual teachings of Jesus in a soft-spoken way.

Just add in an order of magnitude if Texas.

That was my immediate thought. Sadly, I seemingly only remember that on Sept. 20 each year.

The nice thing about xkcd is it’s been running for so long that a random one is new again. It’s the modern version of The Far Side.

Why would I do that on a low-volume instance? I still sort by New on Reddit.

I’m running a fever and as such can’t reasonably give this a good read.

That said, this handwriting on the sign is totally weird. The style seems to attempt Suetterlin, but that’s out the window once the lowercase e’s don’t look like n’s or r’s. Then we have the internally consistent umlaut styles that don’t make sense (just as common to draw a contiguous arc over an ‘a’ as a ‘u’ circa 1995).

I had to learn Suetterlin for classwork in Gymnasium. My cursive was apparently unintelligible. I’m back to “normal” except for how I write my 1’s.

Just save a new copy after each session. Sure, there are more elegant ways to track changes and version history, but if he literally wants progress reports, zip everything up when you send him the final.

The thing is, those of us old enough to remember dialup aren’t anyone’s target demographic, and the cohort that is has been conditioned over time to believe that the current situation is the natural order of things. They were raised to consume, not seek.

I absolutely cannot stand algorithmic feeds. Unless I can.

Here’s the thing: I left Facebook when I stopped seeing anything my friends posted. At the same time, YouTube wouldn’t be all that useful without suggestions. My subscriptions is my home page, so I’m getting videos in chronological order from users I’ve decided to follow, and then the algorithm occasionally serves up a suggestion that leads to a new subscription.

So just saying “social media must provide an opt-out method” is something of a sledgehammer. Moreover, companies will bury that method behind a bunch of dark patterns so no one ever ever gets to it, even if it technically exists.

I’m afraid I can’t help you with that.

Probably a CR/LF issue that whoever built the site to have basic text rendering be reliant on JS couldn’t be fucked to care about.

Have you looked into 80,000 Hours?

I’m not generally one to complain about walls of text, but I’m not reading this despite my curiosity. Paragraphs exist and should be used. This just looks like a kid who couldn’t competently create a GeoCities page.

No shit. I was covering school closures in 2004.

ID scanning has become very common in Texas. Lowers insurance rates for sellers and gives the state a full database of alcohol purchases.

It’s unclear how this is feasible. Also, are we saying “cookies” these days?

With NordVPN? Cool. You know what the top of a funnel looks like?

Not a reason to not try if you have the resources.

The tech-savvy relative should have had them on Firefox long ago. They don’t need a fork. Firefox will do.