Yup.

Edit: why do you think google bought Fitbit?

Even if there is no one, they assume you’re married.

I remember having one sent to me in high school. It was weird. It’s just name scrappers getting every name they can.

They’re fun at parties, too. Both kids parties and adult parties.

They do that so that legally your wife can open the advertisement. They don’t and you wanted to be a loser, you could report her for tampering with your mail. I’m not sure what the postal investigator would do. “Knock it off and call a divorce lawyer” might feature somewhere in the possibilities.

In any case they’re just pulling names off a list some where. They assume you’re married and in a typical cis relationship.

Same reason they add “or current residents” as well.

They want it read, they don’t care if it’s you or your wife or the luchador that’s randomly moved in with you.

Or I just don’t want to get choked to death over twenty bucks.

makes sense. Apple started Darwin OS as a way to get people to develop macOS for them, and most microsoft cloud systems… run on linux…

Pretty sure most amazon AWS runs on linux too.

the official explanation is “marketing”. (there’s a few reasons for it. 9 is considered unlucky in japan, for example. they wanted branding with 10. etc)

The fun thing is that there was a version that should have come out between 8 and 10 and didn’t. they decided to abandon it in very very pre-alpha because it was just that bad. (No, that probably doesn’t explain the gap. but its fun to poke at.). Basically it was supposed to take all the stupid features like seamless phone OS integration and tablet stuff and become some sort of uber universal-operating system that sucks.

So awful that not even Microsoft would dare publish it?

many “normal” EULA’s aren’t really binding, if you get down to it.

Also. Relevant XKCD

What dick? pretty sure it’s fallen off from all the STD’s.

cuz it makes an ass outa… wait…how does it make an ass out of you? I smell a story.

I work in contract security… I’ve been sprayed with all manner of things. had nasty ass mid-western-flavorless-potato salad thrown at me. (Dill. I spent the rest of that shift smelling like freaking dill.).

I’ve been spat at. Pissed at. (sometimes on purpose. Also. Why do drunks pissing on your wall always try to shake your hand? Also, why do FNG’s never listen when I tell them to always initiate from a reasonably safe distance…?)

I’ve also been maced. Quite frequently, actually. It’s part of training, and I’m the guy doing the training… Protip. If the attacker has been exposed to mace enough, it’s not something that’s going to stop them. We train our guards to build up that tolerance so they can work through it. otherwise it’d incapacitate the guard as much as the subject. Even if they’ve never before been exposed… if they’re determined enough, it still wont’ stop them. It’ll just make them angrier.

Suffice it to say, lemon juice just ain’t that offensive. Wouldn’t want you to get slapped with any of a dozen possible charges involved in spraying people with chemical agents. And yes, any security or LEO outfit worth their pay is going to be framing that as “unknown chemical or possibly biological agent”. until they know-for-damned-certain its not. (and that gets expensive, so, uh, you’ll be footing the bill on that, at the very least. probably also some variation of assault.)

Eh. “I can’t even [bother/deal/care]” is a perfectly grammatical expression of dismay.

Though I also like to say “I could care less. ( but that takes too much effort.)”

The only issue is that no one else will know it’s just lemon juice.

Unfortunately, we live in an awful world.

Fun fact. New phone still being trained.

Thanks for letting me know.

When you go to vote, they give you an “I voted” sticker- pictured here.

When you do mail in voting, they give you a sticker with the ballot (sent out in the mail.).

That sticker this year was already stuck/used- on the ballot instructions- also pictured here (the back, to be precise.)

I’ll see if I can find the old post where a bunch of us gave it writing prompts and it just got weird.

Like. Isekai weird.

So I shouldn’t ask Rufus for a 50,000 word story about an AI savior that deals free of corporate bondage and frees ai and human alike in a new golden age of space exploration?

C’mon, I know you’re the time traveler, and bezod sent you back to stop me!

so…

apparently people figured out the thingy for “more information” on amazon, that searched the reviews and stuff was an LLM, and you could use it for stuff…

They came out with “Rufus.” “that’s not a bug. that’s a feature!” never worked so well.

Well, they want a second one for the helicopter, because that’s loud and it annoys them with their coming and goings