Yeah, you may be right :(

Then I imagine there’s a good chance the dog is in an almost constant state of anxiety as well :(

I think everyone’s heard at least one - if not several - of those stories, but it seems to me there’s a chance those are more the exception(s) than the rule (I don’t know if that’s actually true, I have no studies or data to support or refute it). So I guess I have more faith that this recommended strategy works at…

Steganography is hiding an image within the valid content of another one.

how those boots taste?

Thank you - I was worried it would be petty of me and/or beside the point, but the whole mention of “grammatical errors” (at least two or three times!) was more classic “pot calling the kettle black”

Absolutely. I also use Privacy Badger and Disconnect (on Safari - not sure if either of them are available on other browsers, also not sure that either of them specifically block the “chum” you’re referring to, but I have faith that both of them do more good than harm)

exactly - as i’m sure you know, plastic bottles can’t really be recycled into other plastic bottles. best case scenario is plastic gets “downcycled” into some other kind of plastic, through some dirty, inefficient process. worst case is much more common; for awhile, we shipped our plastic to China, who shipped the…

Worth noting that recycling plastic is especially bad/useless (just feel-good PR bullshit) BUT recycling glass and aluminum, as well as certain other stuff like newspaper and cardboard, is definitely helpful and saves energy/resources (although yes, as you mention below, by itself it won’t save us).

all good points

I’m not 100% sure, but I think their policy is directed specifically towards *paid* political messages, so people shouldn’t be banned/blocked/etc. from posting political stuff, including BLM, LGBTQ, other stuff *unless* they’re getting paid to post the content i.e. Sponsored Content (#SponCon) for politics rather than…

You’re thinking Terrence Howard, and yes, dude is a mess by almost all accounts. (I actually thought he was great as War Machine, even kinda missed him in the sequels, but as a human being I want nothing to do with him.)

but why wait? no time like the present!

I’m mixed on this- the pros, as you mentioned, are significant. BUT I think bus drivers are probably one of the most heavily unionized sectors/professions in the US economy, and overall I think we should avoid any more threats to organized labor; they already face significant hurdles and obstacles here, and we should…

No, I don’t think self-driving cars will happen by 2026. Not fully self-driving cars at least, for all the reasons I mentioned. I admit we already have great auto-assist features like automatic parking, lane keeping assistance, automatic emergency braking, and other collision avoidance tech... but all that’s still a…

The problem isn’t the expansion.. its that any action to do... opens the door for the next president to expand it even more.

For the purposes of this joke at least, I believe the answer is yes.

Ultimately I s’pose it’s not all that different... Don’t get me wrong, in theory self-driving vehicles have a lot of advantages - and even in practice, they’re already safer than human-driven vehicles in many (most?) conditions. BUT they are absolutely not ready for prime time yet, and frankly I’m not sure they’ll…