ArbitraryValue @ ArbitraryValue @sh.itjust.works

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The EU only demanded consent.

As in the meme...

Me: I consent (to load the website using the cookie settings already in my browser).

Website: I consent.

Privacy busybodies and EU regulators: I don't.

Blame the EU. There, cookies used to bother a tiny number of "privacy advocates" who were already perfectly capable of blocking the cookies in their own browsers but they weren't happy because no one else cared about cookies so they got the GDPR passed to bother everyone in the world.

Yes, they're threatening to withhold it but unless there's something I missed, they haven't declared that they are withholding it.

The article appears to contradict itself - it says they're withholding her diploma but also that they're mailing it to her and simply not allowing her to participate in the graduation ceremony. I hope she does get the diploma mailed to her so she can put this behind her.

The school is apparently not claiming that it's against the rules for her to come out as gay, but rather that her mention of “ruthless Trump supporting ‘Jesus’ mfs" is vulgar and disrespectful. That seems like quite a stretch.

This is a private school so I don't see how that's relevant.

It seems pretty great. There are a lot of cute people out in public with their feet visible, and if you stare at their feet, they'll just think you're shy.

The guy selling your the property is much less likely to rip you apart with his powerful fangs than the wolf would be in the analogous situation.

Your computer will be restarted. Do not attempt to resist.

I saw a guy yell at the gate employee. The guy's flight had arrived late and the employee was telling him that the door to his connecting flight was already closed so she could not let him board even though the plane hadn't left yet. Eventually a manager showed up and got yelled at too and he opened the door and let the guy on the plane. So it can work.

I would have just taken no for an answer and ended up waiting in the airport for however many hours it took for them to find a new flight for me. Stupid me.

I really can't. Divide by zero error.

TIL that

Affinity graduations are optional events typically led by students to celebrate different student identities and ethnicities. Commonly held ceremonies often honor Black, Hispanic, Asian, first-generation and LGBTQ+ students.

That doesn't sound any more controversial than campus clubs for specific minority ethnic groups. Are colleges worried that they fall into the "racist if white people did it" category? (I would argue that they don't.)

As if 21st century kids have the patience to learn to play a musical instrument voluntarily...

But AI is actually way ahead of where I thought it would be in 2025.

Well, it is kind of stupid to complain publicly the way that this guy is doing. He's wasting the little good-will from Trump that he did buy.

I wouldn't be able to do that - I had to stop drinking caffeine a few years ago but still get cranky if I don't have the experience of drinking a big mug of tea in the morning, despite the fact that the decaf tea has no direct pharmacological effect on me. Then whenever I'm bored or anxious or tired I make another big mug of decaf tea and feel better. It has to be tea; other beverages don't help. Purely psychosomatic but still definitely a real effect.

You know those jokes about how people already in hell don't know that they're in hell? Relevant.

Obviously the average American isn't directly participating in making the major decisions, but what the average American wants still generally has far more influence on the future of the entire world than what the average citizen of any other country wants.

Well, I have the option of leaving. It's not purely hypothetical for me because I'm not originally from the USA - I was just a kid when I came here, so it wasn't my choice but it was a choice and I can see myself making a similar choice to go somewhere else. Maybe I will need to leave if things in the USA get a lot worse but for now living in a blue state still seems like the best available option.

Eh, at least the USA has agency - we get to choose which stupid direction to take half the world in, while most other countries are just along for the ride. Nowhere else except maybe China is like that, and I prefer even Trump to Xi.