Oh, so, like my coworkers then.

/s

Well the Test now includes casual tasks like counting letters, doesn’t it? You have to move your head in a certain way to spot the leopard in the shaded forest.

Toughen up, sunshine!

No but seriously it’s fine for most people except deep in winter, and you can get a heated add-on bidet if there’s power nearby.

I stashed the cutlery caddy because our dishwasher has a third rack for utensils, and you just scoop up a big handful of cutlery to put away which turns out to be way less fussy.

I think it’s a joke? Homophobic, but mocking the abuse pattern in question.

Well it’s okay to break rules, right? So long as you understand how and why.

Your version of readability skews from the norm established over centuries. Fine! Just don’t expect the rules to bend to you.

Readability for author and reader vary. Whose reading comprehension is more important? Your call.

In some cases, it might be appropriate to break paragraph convention and isolate important sentences.

Don’t do that unless it’s a monotype font, please.

Sincerely, typesetters everywhere.

It hasn’t changed, you were just taught an overly specific application and not taught that it was such.

Print publishing has 500 years of convention built on trial and error.

As a person who learned to type on a typewriter, and then became a typesetter and publisher, and now does a lot of editing, double spaces are only of use in a monospace type face where there is no kerning possible.

Otherwise, type with variable spaces between the letters plus variable letter sizes is physically harder to read when there are extra gaps between the sentences, despite the way you were trained (by boomers, probably) to type.

More like a vague gesture, which, in idiom chock-full of metonymy, is legitimate.

Plenty of bad grammar and speling to go around.

30 years ago fewer people with literacy problems were publicly and obsessively defacing literary norms.

“Reticent” used to mean ‘reluctance to speak’, or, ‘holding your tongue’, but in the last decade I saw it being used more frequently as a straight up synonym for ‘reluctance’. I wonder if people maybe think it’s a more authoritative sounding word?

It’s not a change of convenience or cultural drift, just a sign of people reading less and subconsciously trying to hide it, I think.

Oh yes, and even plum union jobs for floor workers in Windsor or Brampton can be kind of shit too, especially in some of the parts factories.

I expect that from hypercapitalist oligarch-run societies. I don’t expect it from vanguard countries. It’s a betrayal.

Heavily subsidized by misery, as well.

Detroit pays union wages and has to respect worker rights (at the top end of the supply chain). The “communist “ state seems to escape these limited obligations in big parts of their supply chains.

• lynx

lol you win, but it’s the only weird thing on your list

Side note, there was a gui version of lynx that ran on the early Mac.

Good luck, have fun, get Altman first.

Calls someone a turd

Stinks up the place

What a fine example you set

Oh, that company is run by millionaires not billionaires and they are pretty sincere in not wanting to keep data that is requested for removal.

Having been hit by accessibility and copyright legal trolls has made them kind of gun shy though.

I have convinced them that they won’t miss it, plus I set up an easy and documented workflow.

I process data deletion requestsfor one of my business clients, and we are quite thorough about it, but with so many intersecting apps engaged in third party data storage it can be challenging tracking down the crumbs.

Oh, you don’t use the dressing room?

Well you are right, at our local pool you leave shoes at the racks before walking barefoot down the hallway to the dressing rooms, but when leaving the pool I still go sock-shoe because that is a public outdoor shoe mat.

Similar principles to food-safe cross-contamination prevention.