One technical achievement I can’t help but marvel at is how 30 second multi-factor codes always have less than 5 seconds remaining.
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I like to imagine that someone in Seattle throws chair every time I can use Apple Pay to easily buy something from a site other than Amazon.
Random old anime thought: The Record of Lodoss War’s opening outperforms the series itself. The opening screams “this is an awesome show with an awesome knight, an awesomer elf and some awesome dragons to boot.” The actual show is… meh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aUfGClzhdI
On the one hand, I am very much for making cities more livable by reducing cars. On the other, I worry that doing so without massive changes to housing and transit would be hugely regressive as only those wealthy enough to live in cities would be able to reap the benefits.
“That stadium from the beginning ‘The Dark Knight Rises'” would be a better name.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/07/11/get-ready-steelers-fans-for-acrisure-stadium/
Both @SlackHQ and @DiscordApp can mute channels, which is great, but I would love to be able to unmute a channel for some amount of time. This would be for channels I don’t participate in regularly, but have occasional bursts of activity like when asking a question.
Bed time is simply a matter of identifying when your small child is ready for sleep.
(Yesterday) Dispatcher: When are you available tomorrow?
Me: I am free any time except 12 to 1.
Odds that the service person shows up between 12 and 1?
I say “mostly”, because I suspect they’d still happily embrace a transgender lesbian atheist so long as that transgender lesbian atheist is a billionaire (and a sucker.)
Republicans being evil was more-or-less a joke when I was younger. Here we are today and that evil we dismissed as a joke is being acted on. They want everyone outside of their norm (mostly Christian, mostly white, mostly male) to be invisible.