Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?

Oh, I’m with you. I don’t think anyone using Google VPN was using it because it protected their privacy on the Internet generally. At least I hope not.

Reasonable when the alternative is literally getting mugged on the daily?

L stands for leap year, so that tracks.

I remember my FIL asking each one if they were trying to supplement a living or if they were purely a for-profit capitalist venture taking advantage of an opportunity at an anti-capitalist protest.

Out of curiosity, how would he draw that line? When does it stop counting as a living and start being a purely for-profit venture?

How about family dynasties?

Wait, did somebody say Kennedy?

Ah, yes, the Athenian Method.

I love how you used pharmacist as both a location and a person in the same paragraph, and now I’m picturing them locking the pharmacist in a little cage after someone chases after to catch them when they just walk out.

…AI generated jeans spammers? What did I miss?

Apparently she defended trans people in a conversation, someone complained, and moderators got involved and manually overrode the ai. Paraphrased hearsay.

I mean personally I figure some way that doesn’t exclude anyone who’s had a hysterectomy, but

Sounds like a time machine. I’d love a time machine.

Giving tips is okay. Paying your employees less because you expect them to be tipped is stupid. Culturally requiring tips to make up the majority of a position’s income is ridiculous, but very difficult to change.

To say nothing of have, an, or, and a.

You can make a line break by ending your sentence with two spaces and then a line break.
Only using one space or none will instead treat the line break in your comment as just a space.
Ending a line on a \ will also make a new line

Two line breaks in a row while making your comment will make a paragraph break

I mean, only insofar as that’s true of anything illegal?

When you define a word loosely enough, it can cease to be meaningful. When most people hear “opposition to censorship,” they’re not going to expect the reference to be advocating for the legalization of public and deliberate slander or open threats of violence and attempts to incite violence.

Using the phrase in that way may not be technically incorrect, but it is still misleading at best and disingenuous at worst. Again, you are welcome to your view of what constitutes censorship and the belief that it is always, ipso facto, abhorrent, but I don’t think that view leaves any room for meaningful discussion about this case, so I don’t think I’ll be engaging any further. Call it self-censorship if you like.

When I was like 8, I allegedly … Illegally acquired… A beanie baby. I … may have just carried it out of a mall while Christmas shopping.

This is all hypothetical, of course. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a tiny stuffed ferret was as close as I was going to get to owning a ferret. That would be silly.

I have three identical monitors in a row. Primarily I use the center one, for productive work and gaming, but often I’ll have something up on the second screen that I’m working with as well. It’s more rare that I actively use the third one, but some tasks have more than two or three windows and now I can see all of them full size at once.

I’ve occasionally used them as a single ultra wide screen for gaming, but since then I’ve gotten an hmd for VR and that is better.

I guess you’re welcome to that opinion. Just as one would be welcome to the opinion that literally stalking someone should be legal.

Many kinds of speech are very broadly considered okay to restrict, even in places like the USA where “unlimited free speech” is a big motto. It’s illegal to slander and libel people, for example. That it’s illegal in many cases to verbally harass and abuse as well should be fairly non-contentious.