Wait. This is really a thing?

They had an ad campaign with a very simple message: a metric ton of your music in your pocket, in a package that looked cool and was easy to use. They created the need, then dominated the market.

Hoot privilege?

Yeah, exactly. Or maybe it’s a corollary to Upton Sinclair’s quote:

I would test this theory, but I’m at work...

I think you overestimate their chances!

This is the same technique I use. It’s completely effective at stopping the hiccups while I’m actually performing it, and I’d say about 95% effective at making them go away entirely.

That expression on his face is magical.

What you say about Rainmeter skins
is what you say about his desktop wins...

So, this may sound pathetic, but: my problem used to be inability to sleep due to stress. Now, when I get stressed out, I actively avoid going to sleep entirely. If I go to bed, the best case is that I fall asleep and tomorrow comes that much faster, and to hell with that.

Aw, shut up, you...

Yes, exactly this!

No, sorry, on this I make my stand.

Semi-serious question here: do people not learn how to smother a fire anymore? I was probably 4 years old when I first heard the phrase “Stop, drop, and roll,” so I’m just trying to understand why step one of that whole thing wasn’t “grab a blanket or towel and flatten that thing out.”

Mmm. Salted donuts.

I entered my credit card (oh god), put in one of those notorious promo codes (I actually couldn’t remember one off the top of my head; so much for advertising), put in five bucks and got three “dollars” for free.

The cars still work, and drive, and because it looks like you missed it every other time it’s been stated here, they also pollute the atmosphere at 10 to 40 times the rate allowable by US law, and the only reason they’ve been able to sell those cars in the United States is that they deliberately falsified their tests…

Hotbox!

I’m sorry, just one of those isn’t going to be sufficient.

“Living near retired parents who can help out is just not the norm anymore.”