You can’t introduce that without name dropping! I need a good long nerd fix

Folks down there could use that money right now, they’re still in rough shape from the hurricane. :/

You don’t go into it looking to find a loneliness cure, you go into it looking to make a new friend. Maybe that friend can be more, but maybe not. The worst case scenario is the same as not trying, a decent outcome is a new friend (which can lead to expanding your pool of datable people!), and maybe you find a partner along the way.

I’ve been married for about a decade now, what I miss most about the dating scene is all the new friends I’d make and experiences I’d have.

Well you obviously need to buy her a nice new one for a holiday

Insurance is absolutely, unambiguously, the worst. I had a stress echocardiogram denied by insurance yesterday because they don’t think I need it. A test to try to identify a problem, what’s my alternative? Wait to see if I drop dead? I guess in that sense I don’t need it but c’mon. And I’m on one of the “good” plans.

It seems like “deny everything and we’ll save money on the people that can’t/won’t fight the denial” is actually common practice now.

I hope their actuaries get to experience the bullshit and have time to regret their contributions to human suffering.

I’ve been so tempted to buy this for several years now, but I just know the successor will be revealed two weeks after I buy one. D:

Bah, undocumented is my modus operandi. Uncredited is unforgivable. Ill absolutely throw together a ticket and add it to the sprint after I’ve fixed an interesting problem that kept me from working on the boring ticket that’s been in my backlog for three sprints. ^_

And don’t work in filenames. But yes, files being in the same order when sorted lexicographic or chronologically makes me smile.

Depends entirely on the self checkout system in use. My local Kroger has a system that’s absolutely awful to use. Seconds between placing an item in the baking area and the register acknowledging it, and if you scan another item before it’s weighed and acknowledged it’ll yell at you. A few times of that and an associate has to come by and unlock it.

Most of the ones I’ve used at Walmart will handle me scanning and bagging as fast as I want for the most part.

As annoying as it is, I’d rather have visually inconsistent elements rather than broken applications. There’s something to be said for backwards compatibility.

You can’t believe anything Rollins says, though. He’s a liar.

Wait, that’s like C with extra fewer steps

ADHD, eh?

That’s the one time in the new testament (that I can recall) where Jesus got pissed, started whipping people.

That’s awful. Man, it sucks seeing that kind of thing and not being able to help.

That’s super interesting! And I guess I can kind of see that point about masculinity, it’s an awful thing overall the way we treat the notion of “manliness”. Good on you, and thanks for the insight!

Sounds a lot like they’re hoping it’s a phase and will “work itself out”.

My oldest is NB, they’re 15. I like to think we’re about as open-minded as it gets, but I still had the thought that it might be something brought about by seeing people they look up to being a certain way and not from internal, intrinsic reasons.

I hope your daughter’s friend ends up ok. If nothing else then knowing there are people out there that think of him might help with feeling isolated and misunderstood.

I’d unironically like that recipe, please

I can imagine it being more difficult to push than pull, especially in cursive.

But don’t feel bad, I’m right-handed and write right-handed and my handwriting is also atrocious.

My youngest had been falling asleep to “the sound of rain” that Google Assistant plays on request, I fear for the day when it goes away.