I’m fine with that timeline. The rollout in Austin hasn’t been the smoothest – though in faiirness, we now have so many Waymos in town that they keep having issues like knowing what to do when encountering an emergency vehicle. They aren’t going around killing people, but that’s a pretty low bar.

If swiping were effective, dating apps would have no business model, because people would pair off and cancel. This “revolutionary” change is being instituted solely for Bumble’s bottom line and can’t possibly be more effective because that would kill revenue.

Remember: The current crop of dating apps do not exist to help you find love. They’re extraction machines running off of FOMO.

There are so many issues with my educational experience that I don’t know where to start. I was sent to the principal’s office for claiming negative numbers existed in first grade. The next year, my parents enrolled me in a night class at ASU for intermediate algebra. Back in elementary school, best they could do was sixth-grade math – i.e., not even prealgebra. It took six years – until eighth grade – for me to progress in math from when I was fucking 7.

By high school, I was considered an excellent math student, and I was told two specific things from other departments: Don’t go into writing or publication design – you’re a math student who’s terrible at both.

Of course, when I won national awards for both and rubbed their noses in it when back home visiting my parents, they tried to do the whole “we knew you had it in you all along” thing.

Yeah, no. I don’t like regurgitative analysis of 19th-century works, and your yearbook design sucks. That’s on you, not me.

Solar on a van has been my life for couple of years. Of course, now diesel’s expensive enough in Texas that fleeing will run $1/mile.

I was talking with a friend a couple of days ago whose life is basically putting out brush fires for others and had hit her limit. She pointed out the flight-safety boilerplate of “remember to secure your own mask before helping others.”

So, $5 per litigant after legal fees, assuming the DOJ doesn’t step in and claim to be the defendant.

Someday, we’ll look back and think being nice to each other wasn’t such a bad idea.

It is left as an exercise for the reader.

Yeah, Consent is Like Tea was actually one of the first things I was linked to, No shade; it’s a good video.

The thing in my situation is I can’t assume the audience. When I was a baby burner, I didn’t know about the darker side. I likely need to talk with her further to determine angle. She’d be the first to tell you that she has Dori memory.

Finally, a chance to see what Hitler would have done with modern technology! (and a smaller brain, and even smaller hands)

It was clearly being used idiomatically.

You’re being deliberately obtuse on this. “Everyone goes grocery shopping on weekends” is the same sort of construction, yet it doesn’t actually mean “everyone.” It’s referring to “everyone who votes.”

We’ll have to see how the fitting goes Monday. Corn on the cob might be a stretch goal. Sorry to hear you’re going through the same issues … people take being able to eat for granted (given enough money), and yet for some, it just … isn’t.

Huh. I watched the video, and it didn’t claim anything like 100% turnout in the first minute.

There will be steak involved.

I turned 18 in 1997, and I can’t remember an election where my vote counted. The further up the ballot you go, the less relevance.

Thanks for understanding. We like to keep things separate so people can choose what communities to subscribe to without surprise posts.

Christ, is this hed overall an assault on journalism. When’s the last time you heard about a sting that wasn’t, say, “undercover”? But wait, there’s unnecessary attribution! What the fuck is “sheriff says” doing there? Either Santa’s in the clink or he isn’t.

Also, between the Lemmy-crafted summary and the dek, either 247 or 266 arrests occurred. This is not a viable news story.

Sure, for geopolitics. Bad Santa in Florida does not count as world news.

Please consider why you’re consistently posting U.S. news to World News.