I hope I’m wrong too, but don’t underestimate the hoops people are willing to jump through to continue defining themselves as the in-group and every victim as the out-group.

If she was straight, maybe. I’m unfortunately not so sure they’ll care about open season on lesbians.

If they get pummeled in the midterms it’ll be due to the economy, not the murders.

Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.

WA just publishes that for everyone to see. It’s wild that they do that.

That guy had worked for ICE for 10 years, should be enough to work some stuff out on his own.

They will, but only the ones who already believed that. Doubt there’s going to be a net change in either direction in our lifetime.

Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.

Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.

… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.

Person of the Year is not an endorsement of their practices, it’s really just whoever dominated the news cycle that year. Both Hitler and Stalin have been Person of the Year. Sometimes it’s not even people, like “The Computer” in 1982.

I guess they could have been making some interpretations of their hand gestures, deliberately ignoring that Venezuelan fishermen drug smugglers are unlikely to know the hand signals of American military?

When American photographer Carl McCunn was stranded in Alaska, he was discovered by a state trooper plane. He cheerfully raised his fist in celebration. The plane left and never came back. Between this incident and perishing there he read up on hand signals, and learned that he had inadvertently signaled “all is well”.

I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion. I’ve basically lived in the command line for more than two decades, and even I prefer UIs for certain tasks:

• Graphical things like web browsing
• Things I rarely do, and a UI is readily available

If I’m cropping a single image, I’m firing up Gimp, Preview, Paint or whatever tool is already installed. If I’m cropping 30 images in the same way, I rediscover how imagemagick works and script it.

It’s all about what’s faster and easier to get the job done, and whether a UI or the command line is preferable depends on how often I do the task (which determines if I remember how the CLI works) and how repetitive the task is (which determines if I want to script it).

What really grinds my gears, though, is how many people prefer a pretty UI over a functioning UI.

Technically a cigar, IIRC.

If side loading is actually allowed on iOS it’s exclusively because the past few years of lawsuits forced them to, and they keep trying to block it in new ways. Android can only be equally bad as Apple at worst, because Apple is as bad as they are legally allowed to in a given jurisdiction. So picking iOS over Android over that specific issue seems odd. They get brownie points for having blocked it from the start?

Doesn’t iPhone already have pretty much the exact restrictions that are coming to Android?

You can make your own bootleg track saw out of a regular skilsaw and some scraps. Personally I haven’t even bothered doing that, and just clamp a straight edge to whatever I’m cutting when I need to make a long straight cut. It’s a lot slower and more fidgety than having a real track, but I rarely make cuts like that.

Probably just answered the question the reporter asked?

He didn’t do it in the TV show either. He recorded the line without the contestant in the room.

I’m not a total asshole: After he’s had his “oh shit” moment I give him one more chance to choose. He’s usually a lot better at picking one of the two options on his second try.

I present two options. If my kid doesn’t pick one of those two options, either by not responding or by requesting a third thing, I’m picking one of the two options for him. And I’m always picking what he’s least likely to want.

I’m not particularly interested in an exercise which is completely irrelevant to real-world scenarios. In the real world your choice would look more similar to my example, so that is the more relevant hypothetical.