notmyrealnameanymore
Mystik Spiral
notmyrealnameanymore

Thank you for leading with that. Too many debt advice articles never mention that debt is not inherently evil. In fact, just the opposite - there are some who are making a lot of money convincing people that if they have any kind of debt at all, they’re terrible people who are living their lives wrong.

I’m sure it’s happened to me, too. I know it has, though I don’t recall exactly when. But I just meant that Netflix using it as the reason their earnings are off sounds like a cop-out. I’m not buying it.

Right? I mean, that’s pretty much how it’s always been. You get a new card, you look for changes. To me, sounds like Netflix is looking for a scapegoat. Their entire third quarter earnings took a dive because 30 million people didn’t update their credit cards on file?

So, let me get this straight. Facebook (who gains arguably nothing by real time tracking of your location when you’re not actively using the app) is intentionally putting out a buggy app that drains your battery and that everyone in any kind of tech support or advice capacity is suggesting we all uninstall, so it will

Cribbing jokes from George Carlin can go a long way, too. “Hey, remember that line about abortion that Carlin had? The one about how most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t wanna fuck in the first place? WAS GEORGE THE MAN OR WHAT, DAD?”

I saw the headline on the main page, thought “I’m going to post ‘just don’t be a dick’” and came here to do just that... but you beat me to it.

Seriously? To what end? What benefit is there to Facebook for them to have a buggy app that everyone suggests be deleted?

No, Facebook needs to get it under control. Tweaking your OS on a per-app basis to fix someone else’s bad code is what gets an OS publisher in trouble. Just ask Microsoft.

I must be one of the lucky ones... in the Last 7 Days list, FB is 7% battery usage, with 57 minutes on screen and only 32 minutes in background.

Huh?

This desktop automatically wins the Best Desktop prize for having a Rush song in the screenshot.

Or, to sum up:

A quick glance at the page as it loaded, I thought it said “Rocket Shoes”. For a brief moment, I had my hopes up that I’d be Iron Man’ing my way through the skies.

A quick glance at the page as it loaded, I thought it said “Rocket Shoes”. For a brief moment, I had my hopes up

I used to podcast. At the time, doing transcripts of my hour-long shows was cost-prohibitive (because I wasn’t making any money! lol). I don’t think Deadspin can use that as a reason.

I see what you did there.

If it had backfired, running off the remaining five seconds and being stopped shy of the goal line, the Steelers get blasted this morning for a terrible play call.

Are you going to tell her that she’s wrong? How will you prove it? You can’t.

As flip as I was earlier, I really am earnest in my opinion - opinion, folks - that the shape of the glass makes no difference to the taste of the beer. Everything else being equal (the beer itself, the temperature of the room, the time it takes to drink, the amount poured, the pour’s method) - the glass simply makes