I disagree. Under those circumstances, one is skydiving for longer than average. Sounds like a pro move to me.

The clowns pushing for this have already appropriated the most bland, lobotomized, passified, pasteurized, inoffensive versions of “Mexican” food imaginable. They won’t even miss the real deal. It’s like when people call American-style pizza “Italian food”, while no Italian alive would ever lay claim to that dish.

Like petroleum. Well, stuff made from it anyway.

PSA: Home use? That’s probably okay. Work use? If you’re in-office, this is a ticking time-bomb that can get you fired, one way or another. Use the company 1password or whatever you have access to, please. Thank you.

I can feel your justified rage from here, but…

I swear to god I’m still in one of the matrix battery pods. Get me out of here Morpheus.

I’m in stitches. Didn’t see that one coming. And yes, I too am willing to ascend into a greater world of Gnostic horror; it might not be so bad.

Well, that’s at least some improvement. Still, I hate that situation for you guys - nobody should have their life swept away like that.

Living here, I will tell you that the insistence on building houses in a neo-colonial style in tornado alley, hurricane prone areas, or in a middle of a yearly flood plane, baffles me. We should have completely different architectural styles adpated to withstand the elements at this point. You know, what housing is supposed to be for in the first place? /rant

I think we can expect a very special week, courtesy of Colbert and his writing team.

fucking president of the United States

My pet theory here is that the RNC likes having a populist for election purposes and someone who is culpable that can be ejected if needed. In this case, culpability has to fall outside range of a self-pardon or any presidential immunity. I think the civil cases qualify for that, but I’m not sure.

that credit score tells the bank how much money they can get out of you.

This is the whole game, right here. It’s their score for how they see you, with respect to exploiting your desire to purchase things, to make money. And to be clear, a big part of that math is how much interest you’re likely to pay. If you keep paying things off, and don’t usually carry a lot of debt, you’re not as profitable a customer. The more you tend to pay interest for things, the higher your score.

Interestingly, a lot of this is not halal. Which means that Muslim banks have some creative workarounds for lending and helping their communities out. While I’ve never done this myself, it sounds like folks around here might find that an appealing alternative.

I love how I tried to find a PDF of the rules for the “Landlord’s Game” and one site it was on has everything beyond page 1 behind a paywall. I’m up to my ass in irony here.

I’m using whatever the stock keyboard is on Google Android. Since we’re on the topic, I’m open to suggestions. Especially if I’m going to re-train to swiping inputs.

It’s hard to pin down anything specific as an example. If I had to sum it up, its usually where I want to use a long word with a common root for others. There could be eight or so different ways to go for auto-completion, but my choice is seldom in the top three.

I’m going to just take a guess: Most people who have a problem with autocorrect type each letter individually by pressing each letter?

Possibly. I’m in that group, for what it’s worth.

1. Was unaware that was even a thing. As a long-time touch-typist, doing this never even occurred to me. And I know how to use Palm Pilot Graffiti input, so I’m admittedly embarrassed here.
2. My vocabulary is broader than the auto-complete’s dictionary/prediction, so what I want to say isn’t even a suggestion more than half of the time. I’ve struggled with this since iOS 3, and most recently on Android. It’s never been very useful for me.

Then there is/was this feature that resizes key hitboxes on the fly, based on prediction. I’m unaware if that’s still a thing, but at the time, it absolutely screwed with my thumb-typing muscle-memory in the worst way. Until I learned about this, I was convinced that I was just garbage at hitting the keys, then I started seeing it mis-register keypresses when I looked closely.

From all that I think I see the problem. These systems are compromises for a huge range of different users and communication styles. So it’s going to be pretty mid for a lot of folks until (people like me) move to the middle where the software wants people to be. Were it not for the sake of clear, personalized, and expressive communication, I’d be on board with that.

Is it just me, or does autocorrect paper-over the fact that touch-screen keyboards are kind of garbage?

For me, turning off autocorrect reveals how hard it is to be both accurate and precise with key presses on these things.

That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

Oh. I was gonna ask what you meant by “opposite kind of androgynous presentation”, and now I think I get it. So rather than expressing no specific gender, you seek to express all gender? To live at both poles of the spectrum at once?

Real question is: how many smaller cars can I fit inside it?

It’s a feature, not a bug!

It’s especially high-effort considering that the front fell off and is now nowhere near the rest of the boat.

Yeah, but they had the extra thrill of being hostage in a car, with little recourse but to witness whatever diatribe would come next. So it’s Joe Rogan, but you can’t turn it off.