When I used to answer numbers I didn’t recognize I would never confirm my identity. I would ask who is calling and often got something along the lines of, “I can’t tell you who this is until you confirm your identity.” They would cite company policy, privacy concerns, even alleged laws. They would get all serious and…

Sometimes I am required to answer the phone for unknown numbers (for work). I have taken to just answering and not making a sound. If there is a real person on the line, after a few seconds they will say something and I can respond to that, appropriately. If it is a computer dial, it will just be silent for 20 seconds…

Quick fingers can also make it possible.
I forget which news site, but it usually loads the article and allows you to read the first few lines before popping up the “Paywall” floating menu which prevents you from reading more.
If you’re quick enough, go to the page, as soon as you see text, Ctrl+A (Select All), then…

I use a Chromebook and find that when I go to a paywalled site, if I hit ctrl-a, then ctrl-c, I can copy-paste the content of the site into a blank document. It’s not perfect, sometimes you lose graphics, but if you simply want to read, this works well. You do have to be fast, though, as the pages are usually up for…

I used to get free New York Times access for being a student at a community college — I was attending for years before I found out about this perk when looking for something else, so if you’re already a student somewhere, it can’t hurt to check.

Sign-in to your library’s web site using your card number and look under periodicals. 

Sometimes I just want information about that show/movie.  Sometimes I want to see the trailer.  Sometimes I want to change the episode.  Can still do this with it starting up but would rather have a landing page to select options from.

There’s more information, as well as trailers, in the page for the content. I don’t always want it to start playing.

I’d love a setting to turn off the auto-start when I navigate to a movie or show. Sometimes I just need to get it set up and ready, but am waiting for popcorn to finish or someone to get off their phone call...

“I think the problem is that big foot is blurry. That’s extra scary to me, because you have a large, out-of-focus monster running around terrorizing the woods..”

It should be noted that once you complete this process for Google Maps, they will NOT undo it. EVER.
Whoever lives there after you will never be able to get it undone.
Many people have tried. Google can/will not undo it.

All that and you forgot to mention the miss distance. Which is 8.9 times the moon’s orbit. (From EarthSky’s article.)

How about cancel all interest accumulated and make the interest rate 0% moving forward? The American public shouldn’t be guaranteed a return on investment from a subset of citizens in addition to the increased taxes (on average) that subset pays. Student loan borrowers pay back what they borrowed from the American…

Arranging books by colour is book arranging for people who do not read!

perhaps make the “new account” more prominent. maybe in the opening paragraph.

With every serious relationship, I’ve had to sit the other person down around late March and tell them absolutely NO pranks on April Fools Day. Not even harmless ones. Not even cute ones. If this is a dealbreaker, I wish them well.

How to Pull an April Fool’s Day Prank Without Making Any Enemies

(chef finger kiss)

Tee hee hee.

Oh that’s a good idea - I specifically don’t follow a ton of people so it’ll be manageable but I might have to look into it (assuming fleets work with lists as predicted).