SparroHawc

Web developer, or business developer. A lot of inter-system communications these days is in JSON, whether there is any JavaScript involved or not.

Yup. Same thing Canada went through.

Of course, wait times are atrocious right now in the USA anyways.

They’re definitely doing A/B testing; I just tried it in a private window and I can still access it, but posts like this are becoming more frequent.

Don’t forget the whole ‘buying a private jet’ thing.

Nice that they’re actually buying them this time instead of just downloading torrents of book collections again.

As long as they continue to spout pie-in-the-sky for-realsies gonna-be-fantastic totally-not-gonna-fall-apart-like-half-Elon’s-schemes plans for the future, they don’t have to spend ANY money on stuff like ground-based solar panel arrays, and they get more investors who get suckered by the pitch too!

It’s always so cute when they cuddle! It’s a pity it happens so rarely with my two…

That movie had no right being as good as it is. It’s STILL good, despite the 90’s camp. Or perhaps partly because of it.

None of the big studios wanted it, because they expected it would bomb at the box office, so it was funded - with only a $7m budget - by New Line Cinema, who had no interest in riding herd on the creators. The lack of executive meddling allowed them to make what they wanted to make. (And, of course, Henson did an amazing job with the turtles and Splinter.)

Release the butthole cut!

The Disney live-action movies are a prime example of taking the wrong lesson from critiques. Changes to pre-existing stories need to be done with a plot-driven purpose; the changes to Beauty and the Beast did not, the changes to Snow White would honestly have been served better with a Lord of the Rings-style treatment of dwarves what with the beards and mining obsession and all rather than just forgetting that they’re dwarves, and so when they tried to avoid changing anything at all for Moana, they made something that had no artistic purpose at all. In essence, the people behind the live-action remakes don’t know how to make a story, and when the most obvious change is gender politics, that’s what it gets blamed on. The solution is to hire good writers, not ditch the politics - because there is no such thing as art without politics.

If there’s one emotion that Vulcans fail to suppress, it’s disdain - and sarcasm is all about disdain.

Ostensibly you would only draw from SS what you’ve paid into it; of course, that’s only how it’s supposed to work, and not how it actually works. In reality, current SS payments go to pay benefits for current retirees, making it more of a Ponzi scheme that will leave today’s workers hung out to dry with nothing to show for all the money they’ve poured into it when it gets inevitably murdered.

But you still can only draw payments if you’ve been paying into it for at least ten years, which essentially makes it like giving the government a decade-long zero-interest loan.

Social Security is supposed to be like a forced retirement account - what you pay in is what you get out of it later. It was essentially an emergency measure put into place when a lot of Americans were struggling. Since it doesn’t make sense to have a payout above a certain amount, as it would be above the average cost of living, there’s a cap of how much is collected per person per year.

The usual solution is to use the cash to pay for things that you can pay cash for - stuff you buy at a brick-and-mortar store like groceries, electronics, et cetera - while continuing to use your card to pay for the rest. It means you have the cash longer, but you’ll get through it eventually, and your regular income will stretch further in the meantime.

And of course, by turning it in to the police, it ensures that neither you nor the original owner of the money will receive it.

I mean, that’s a steno mask, and anyone who’s had issues with hand pain but wants to communicate via text has probably wished for something resembling this. The problem is that they’re obnoxiously expensive. (And they look ridiculous, but that’s its own issue.)

When I’m in public, I wish people had these. I neither need nor want to listen to your phone conversations.

Happens all the time with meteors. There’s a lot of atmoshpere and only so many Starlink satellites; far too few satellites to meaningfully affect anything.

Low Earth orbit means that the debris will get dragged down by the atmosphere before it becomes a cascading problem. Thankfully.

This is the winner. Curtains go on them like this: image

No, but you see, it’s okay when THEY do it, because it’s only to offset what those filthy LIBRULS are doing.