Thank you! My girlfriend and I started using this app after she tried a few different forms of hormonal birth control and experienced awful physical and emotional side effects. We’ve been using it for over a year now, and it’s been fantastic so far. Like you said, the app tracks ovulation with several mechanisms and…

Yes, definitely disable the system that tells you if a tornado is about to destroy your house because you want to block a hypothetical future political message that will almost certainly never arrive. 

I don’t think this is meant to be used for regional disasters and alerts—state-level systems already exist for that. This is for major national emergencies, like a second 9/11 or a nuclear attack. 

It just means that they don’t update or support it anymore. They haven’t since the end of 2013. I was pretty bummed about it at the time, but they just weren’t able to survive as a company with that albatross around their neck. And of course, it’s not a good idea to use outdated software like that if you want to…

BlackBerry just makes Android phones now... BlackBerry OS hasn’t existed for a few years now. And trust me, as a sysadmin who has spent an inordinate amount of time researching the matter for work—iOS security is MILES better than Android’s, outside of a few niche security-focused Android distributions that are…

So... she thinks it should be abolished and would potentially vote to do so if she ever makes it to the federal level. In the meantime, I’m sure she understands that she can’t do that right now. She’s a community organizer who has supported abolishing ICE for some time. Also, it’s a plank of the DSA party platform. Whe…

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Mostly because she’s been publicly supportive of (and recorded/gone on tour with) 6ix9ine, who plead guilty to sex crimes involving a 13-year-old girl. Her latest album that’s doing so poorly prominently featured a duet with him.

No shit. I found a 2002 Tacoma on Craigslist the other day that the guy wanted $13,000 for. The listing was touting LOW MILES—only 300,000!

No, I’m not. I think Jordan deserves every ounce of scorn he’s received for ignoring the sexual assaults of those wrestlers, but we can call him out on that without implying that he’s a pedophile. There’s plenty of legitimate stuff to criticize this guy over—we don’t have to make shit up.

Yo, I hate the guy as much as any of you... but the wrestlers he coached were not children, and he is not personally accused of molesting them. 

His base mostly won’t turn on him, but they don’t have to. Even if they still outwardly support him, their turnout in elections can and is being depressed by his poor job performance and unpopularity. Likewise, the turnout of the Democratic base goes up as you add economic woes to their existing grievances with the…

In the 2008 election, the Democrats took the presidency, the House, and a supermajority in the Senate. November 4, 2008 fell right in the middle of the worst part of the financial crisis, and people vented their anger over it (and, to a lesser extent, the Iraq war) at the ballot box. Of course the Republicans tried to…

Well, yeah—when it comes to most things, Trump is quite literally the Teflon Don. He’s able to do that, in part, because he’s managed to con people into believing that he’s a Very Smart Businessman who Knows Business.

Yeah, we already did that. That long, relatively stagnant period is part of the reason why we’re going on ten years now without a real recession. The economy only really got off the ground in the last couple of years, and now we’re riding the crest of what appears to be a pretty classic bubble. The laws of physics can…

ALLOCATE YOUR PORTFOLIO BY YOUR AGE AND DON’T TRY TO TIME THE FUCKING MARKET.

I swear to god: when the shit hits the fan, Trump is literally going to pretend that it isn’t happening. He’s going to rant on Twitter for months about how the fake news media is inventing an economic crisis just to make him look bad. Then, once he’s finally forced to admit that it’s actually happening, he will…

A recession is definitely coming, but probably not until 2019. Most analysts’ predictions have it pegged to late 2019 or early 2020. A massive trade war with China could certainly accelerate that timeline, though, and the housing and auto markets have already begun to turn down. I’m telling everyone I know that they…

Oh, I agree—it should absolutely be free. For what it’s worth, though, most states do limit the amount they can charge you. In NM, where I live, the fee is capped at $10 to activate the freeze and $5 to lift it. It’s also free here if you’re an identity theft victim or a senior citizen over the age of 65. The fee…

If you’re really concerned about it, just freeze your credit. I froze mine with all three major credit bureaus (and a few minor players) just after the breach. It cost me about $30. You have to jump through some additional hoops to open new lines of credit it’s been frozen, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.