How times have changed.

Ah my bad. I thought this was satirical London lingo.

TAPS would often diagnose plumbing and electrical issues if they were present, no? Part of their whole shindig was that they were at least trying to project a more emperical process on ghost-hunting. At least, that’s what I remember when watching them in middle school.

Algorism outpaced the abacus for a reason, and the slide rule outpaced algorism for a reason as well, but they’re all good skills to have some practice with. Have you ever had to do long division on an abacus? It ain’t pretty.

Buy used, compensate for the loss in power with algorithmic ingenuity, yadda yadda.

Also, if you can do the thing the app does on paper, you should just do it on paper and can save the computer for more difficult tasks like the old-timers that paved the way for our modern-day laziness.

Use the public library, also.

I dunno, man. Seems like all the convenient options at this point require you to capitulate to some asshole trying to jack up prices and deny payouts, and the only option now is to take high roads that are unpaved.

Strong disagree, killing is not the absolute worst crime one can commit. In my opinion: Torture is worse, destruction of life is worse, enslavement is worse, I’m sure there are others not coming to mind.

That being said, I agree that vigilante justice often leads to people jumping the gun and killing innocent people without meaningful evidence of their guilt. I just do not agree with the premise that killing is the be-all-end-all of evil crimes.

It funny, this concept communicates how personal conciousness is an illusion… but the personification and active voice when describing the universe in this fashion is also an illusion.

Hard disagree, the true bastions are the webrings that all still look like they’re from early 2000s.

GeoCities is dead, long live NeoCities.

Damn. They got them prices represented with exponents now. Those must be the Europe prices. /s

As someone who developed muscle memory on keyboards from 4-6, and then had to unlearn that muscle memory when I was doing touch typing classes, it is just not true that you naturally acquire the muscle memory for touch typing through typing practice.

It’s a formal skill that has to be practiced deliberately to develop.

They’re referring to touch typing, which is a formal skill. The lines signify where your index fingers should rest when not used. All fingers are supposed to live in the middle row, and only go for their immediate neighbors up and down. It is not quite the same as just learning to type on your own.

Philip’s Sonicare line uses an app to track your brushing habits and can tell you when you’re underbrushing spots. It’s almost definitely also spyware, though, like all major corpo apps.

I’ve got an ultrasonic one, no app needed. It detects when you apply too much force, and if you do use the app - again, not needed - it can track your brushing habits and tell you when you’re missing spots. I would not have bought it without my employee discount, though. I think the $30 ultrasonic ones with no seriously fancy stuff are still good, though.

That’s how i see it, you make a significant bulk that can glide you for the rest of the week.

‘As a laborer’ does not sound like what an actual laborer would say.

Meal prep for hours? You can slam together a meal in under an hour and have that shit last half the week. I do that for work every week. Takes like 45 minutes most of the time. It’s chicken, curry, veggies, and rice. Pretty much every time.

One of mooses’ natural predators are orcas.

I have a collection of toques for winter and keep another collection of ballcaps from various places, mostly museums and zoos. The one I got for visiting the Smithsonian was a Washington D.C. one, though, and it doesn’t cover my head well.

He does… business. It’s on his card. He’s the VP of a Mergers and Aquisitions business. So you know he’s businessing. /j

More seriously, for those who didn’t see it or don’t wanna - all we really know is on his card. He works at Pierce and Pierce which deals with mergers and acqusitions. How specifically is unclear - possibly in writing up the legal documents, possibly in just facilitating the meetings.

The real funny part of the cards, though, is that everyone comparing cards is the VP of the company. What that job entails is vague, and the fact that there’s at least 4 people who are all the vice president ambiguates it even further.

Great quote from Paul Atraides.