I thought this might have been exaggerated, so I tested it out myself. I got as far as “Can my hu” before Google gave me a list of suggestions. At the top was “can my husband find out who I voted for.”

I guess in one sense it’s a good thing that this many people are trying to make sure that they can vote the way they want? In another sense…for fuck’s sake. How the fuck are so many people so backwards???

Narrator: They did not leave it alone.

Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.

Philosophy students: Turn up with the textbook along with all of their notes, and write a dissertation on why it all qualified as “one-sided.”

“FAKE NEWS”

• The right-wing, probably

Joy Division. It took several years of being a New Order fanboy before I revisited the earlier band and realized its genius.

It got bad several years ago, which is when I permanently jumped ship to DDG. It’s nowhere near as good as Google used to be, but on the other hand, it’s also nowhere near as bad as Google is now.

Little Songs About Raindrops - Lullatone

Guidance counselors. One of them tried to convince my parents that I was on drugs…in 4th grade. Turned out that I had an undiagnosed mental disorder.

And on the third try, you think you accidentally failed to hit the last key, and so you have to start all over again.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

This is why I never bought a domain. Can’t give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

I’m fine with language evolving; my issue is that there used to be a word that succinctly conveyed a particular idea, and now there is no way to concisely convey that idea in English.

“Gay” changing its meaning isn’t the same thing, because there are still plenty of ways of saying “happy” in English.

The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.

You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.

Is it sufficient to set the Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict” (which claims to block cross-site cookies in all windows), or is there something else you have to do?

c/dataishorrifyinganddepressing

Even worse is that a disturbing proportion of young men are ACTIVELY supporting the Trump/Vance regression ticket.

No idea, but this just reminded me that I used to have a buddy who wanted to open a milk bar and call it “The Milk Of Human Kindness.”

I was already going to crawl over cut glass to vote for her/against Drumph. Walz doesn’t change anything for me, but if Internet comments are to be believed, picking him does make me slightly more optimistic about our chances come November.