That shit should be illegal.

Leave room for my detritus.

I mean it could be better, though. Could do with fewer natural disasters, or perhaps another continent in the Pacific so it isn’t so empty. Or maybe burritos that grow on trees and a mild concentration of opium in the air. That’s the Earth I’d want to live on.

TBH I’d give earth a B or a C.

I feel like there must be a better planet out there somewhere.

Forbidden Kitkats

Not great if you are also trying to de-Google, though.

Hah, got me there on a technicality.

An example though would be one friend I have who was telling me recently about a story from back when we were in high school. When quoting someone who was talking about her, she chose to use her current pronouns and current name even though realistically those wouldn’t have been used at that time. Even if it’s less “accurate” in a historical context, it’s a positive affirmation to be able to say “this is who I have always been, even if I couldn’t share it publicly at the time.”

And it also helps those in the present who may have never known her back then and might wonder who she was referring to. A bit like how one might talk about the childhood of Lady Gaga and not the childhood of Stefani Germanotta.

• Loose small produce like beans or cherries - keeps them all together.

• Moistened produce like kale or cilantro - keeps everything else in the bag from getting wet.

• Produce with flaky detritus like onions or garlic - keeps pieces of peel from getting everywhere.

• Raw meat prone to leakage - keeps other items in the bag from being exposed to potential pathogens.

They sell reusable mesh bags to help with the first scenario, but they aren’t really helpful for the other 3. I also try to be mindful of not buying more reusable bags I don’t need because most of those end up in landfills long before the 100/200/500/20,000 uses needed to offset the number of plastic bags you’d use otherwise.

Paper bags would help for the first and third scenarios as well, but not the other two. And single-use paper is nearly as bad.

A lot of trans people would disagree. Just because someone was forced to conform to their biological sex for years doesn’t mean they felt that way on the inside.

Every trans person I know, without exception, prefers to refer to their pre-transition selves by their current pronouns and would take issue with the suggestion that they were still a boy/girl before becoming a girl/boy.

Finally Apple is ready to use all that training data they say they don’t collect.

I am prepared to hide under a rock after this comment, but…

Linux even powers the most widely-used consumer OS in the world. It just happens to take the form of Android.

It’s like cars. A lot of people drive them every day. Not as many people know how they work or how to fix them.

If someone spends their entire life studying medicine or law or art, etc., or any other trade that has nothing to do with their computer OS, I don’t blame them for simply not having any remaining brain space to support an entire new set of skills just to maintain their computer when they are used to Windows or MacOS doing everything for them.

I’ve heard that if this sort of thing happens to you, you can call local beekeepers who can help remove them for a low rate, or sometimes even for free. They’re usually happy just to get more bees.

You can’t do it at home because your neighbors will murder you if you are loud enough.

Doing that in a car just makes it everyone else’s problem, though. You’d think living in a city would have desensitized me by now, but I still get woken up some nights by people playing music in their cars loud enough to shake my window screens as they drive by.

If you need that just to stay awake, I don’t think you should be driving to be perfectly honest.

4K TVs are not $2000, they’re incredibly cheap these days. You can get a 70-inch 4K TV at Costco or similar retailers for less than $500. And even less than that for more reasonable TV sizes.

I normally don’t like factoring in the cost of other hardware anyways because the computer will also need a monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc. which are things you don’t necessarily want to skimp on either.

I don’t own an Xbox so I am not quite sure, but I don’t think it applies in quite the same way, namely that in order to play Final Fantasy XIV on Xbox, I read that you need a Gamepass subscription in addition to the game subscription itself, which is not a requirement on PlayStation.

But for truly free to play games, maybe.

It’s a sad state of affairs modern schools have when an instructor tries to pull up a video on YouTube or other sites to use in class, and an entire classroom of children have to sit through the unskippable ads.

I guess I’ll take that over the TV documentaries my teachers used to record on VHS that had commercials to fast forward through, but the modern internet truly sucks.

That is also v e r y illegal.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement

FWIW there are exceptions to that. On PlayStation, you only need a subscription if PSN handles the online component of the game. Companies that manage their own online services don’t require it. Genshin Impact, Final Fantasy 14, Warframe, Fortnite, etc. can all be played without PS+

A decent GPU alone will run as much as an entire PS5. You get other computer perks when building a PC, but the simple fact is that a lot of gamers are priced out of it.