I’m dumbfounded touchscreen replacements have gone as far as they have, and hope they don’t become the standard, so I’m glad to hear at least one company is catching on. All it took was one Lyft ride in (I think) a Tesla to see what an issue it was. The driver spent a noticeable time throughout the whole ride going…

Republicans are scandalized about the possibility of citizens seeing their potential House rep in an explicit situation...So they then try very hard to get citizens to see their potential House rep in an explicit situation. Cool.

Sigh. I like passkeys in theory, but the day you lose your phone or it’s not functioning, you realize how fucking difficult life suddenly is when you’ve tied everything in your digital life to it. And I’m trying to use my phone less, not more. Just gives me an uneasy feeling every time life becomes one step more…

I actually am really into this idea, and I know a lot of people who would be too. As in all things, let people like what they like. It just seems like a nice middleground between the pro’s and con’s of disposable cameras or polaroids, and the pro’s and con’s of smartphone cameras. Personally, I like the idea of being…

I mean, she didn’t marry him for his sparkling personality or their personal chemistry....

The last one resonates. My parents both learned that to talk about money was inappropriate, gauche, taboo—apparently even within their own family unit. I have to assume this was a result of their generational and class backgrounds. As a result, even though both of them came from upper-middle class families and even…

That’s what the author is saying—if someone already knows what feels good to them, you can just ask and they’ll tell you. If they don’t know, they can tell you that instead, and you can work together to experiment—in which case they’ll tell you what feels good as you go along and what doesn’t. I don’t think the author…

Exercise newbie in need of info summarizing from a helpful soul! (I get a little confused figuring what info I should apply to myself.)

My obsession, cemented in middle grade, is such that if I hear the sound of a skateboard in the distance, I am immediately on high-alert and semi-aroused. It’s confusing to be attracted to someone you haven’t even glimpsed yet.

Our beloved childhood parrot died for unknown reasons about 30 years earlier than he was expected to. His cage was in our kitchen—I wonder if that’s why...

Get this: a guy in my building (young 20s) gets McDonald’s delivered every single day—not hyperbole. Sometimes multiple times a day based on what I’ve seen in the trash bins when I take out my own garbage. The kicker? We live across the street from the McDonald’s (and a grocery store). He’s lived here for over a year…

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Oh, I couldn’t forget...

I agree that we shouldn’t hold the bakers necessarily to a super-high standard of familiarity, because you’re right, if you don’t grow up/live in an area where a certain ethnicity is prevalent, you probably won’t be very familiar with anything past stereotypes. BUT I think the showrunners could’ve been more proactive…

...............oh shit yeah I would try that

I feel like GBBO has SUCH an easy solution to country-specific episodes: Just bring in a guest baking expert from that country! It would do so many things at once: acknowledge the fact that these judges are not experts in international cuisine (as should be expected), bring in more credible knowledge, add interesting…

A+ read! It’s a really interesting topic and I appreciate how you summed up the state of things: for some female viewers this trend is unappreciated, for others it’s cathartic, and frankly we’ll probably never be able to make a black-and-white ruling about it as a whole. And how it’s taken on an individual level just d…

Watched it with the full brightness up (because of course I’d turn the brightness up if something looks too dim) and still couldn’t see faces tbh

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I agree, that was a really interesting perspective. Even as a woman who’s very invested in this topic, it was a new take to me!