Then the civil war of the USA was fought between the Union and the Confederate States. Or The North and The South, colloquially. Never “north america and south america.” “The northern states or america vs the southern ones” would work, because neither Mexico nor Brazil are states, they’re countries. I don’t think I’ve…

“North Americans”. If they were from South America, you’d call them “South Americans”. If they were from both, you probably wouldn’t group them together by continent like that, but if you have to, it would be “North and South Americans”.

The United States of America is often shortened to “America”, the same way the People’s Republic of China is just “China” or The United Mexican States is “Mexico”. Very few countries have names containing only a single word.

Depends if you want to act on it or not. If you plan to remain in a monogamous relationship with nothing on the side, no threesomes, nothing like that, then there’s really no need to tell your boyfriend (or girlfriend) you’re bisexual. Or you could treat your love of women as something you and your boyfriend can…

That sounds really crappy.

You could always just skip it and have another 39th birthday.

I started taking Modafinil this week, and it is fucking amazing. No more falling asleep in the middle of the day or the moment the lights go out, and no more feeling tired in the morning no matter how much sleep I got, or staying in bed for 10 hours because I can’t get up. If I’d had this stuff back in college, I…

Obviously it’s every story about Uber. The rides where nothing happens aren’t really newsworthy, are they?

I kind of hope they charge you for a ride you only cancel once the driver is already there to pick you up. I worked in dispatch for a company that sent taxis to Medicaid patients for doctors appointments. You wouldn’t believe the number of people who cancel or reschedule their doctors appointment or find another way…

I don’t blame them for rejecting Mexican Consular Identification Cards. Those things are natoriously easy to obtain fraudulently, and basically aren’t worth the plastic they’re printed on for proving someone’s identification. Passports though are a little more secure, and should probably be accepted as proof of ID,…

Wow, that’s all kinds of fucked up.

I had a phone interview today which I apparently bombed because I don’t know what Sequel is.

This is the internet. I’ve met a lot of people who feel entitled to pirate anything they refuse to buy for any reason, including because they don’t suport whatever practice the game’s publisher engaged in.

No, I supose they’re not entitled to your money, but then in return, you’re not entitled to their game.

Believe it or not, “I’m giving you free advertising” isn’t a valid defense against charges of copyright infringement under the law. The law says they’re entitled to money whenever anyone uses their song. Kind of like how the law says I’m entitled to money anytime anyone takes something from my store. “I could always…

Except that increases the cost so much you’d be better off buying a full sized desktop.

How good is the steam controller at playing MOBAs? I’m a little worried because those games usually have a lot of precise clicking required, and nothing I’ve seen so far tells me the steam controller can do that as well as a mouse.

That’s just the way the world’s moving. Outside of Nintendo, with its gimicks and its brands, there’s really no reason for games to be limited to only one platform anymore.

I have no problem believing they don’t really care about the effects of their new stricter parking regulations on black churches, but those regulations are probably the result of increased trafic into the neighborhood (same with the bike lane), not a targeted effort to drive black churches out of the area.