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Maybe, but I don't particularly feel the need to use a portal gun. If I never end up using it I don't think I'd have particular regrets, but if I used it to save my ass during a high-stakes situation then I'd be quite glad.

Save it. I don't have anything currently that I would want to use a portal gun on given that I can only use it once. I might use it to get myself out of a sticky situation, or wait to see if I ever move into a relatively permanent home and I could make a portal from my house to another location for convenience.

You can say USAmerican or US (as an adjective, e.g. US government) as a neutral demonym. "Yankee" and "gringo" have pejorative connotations, although I'm not Latin American so I don't know what the connotations are among LatAm Spanish speakers. Also, my understanding of the word "gringo" as someone who lives in neither of the Americas is that it refers to specifically white people, not USAmericans in general. I'm not sure if I've understood the usage of the term correctly, but if other people have the same understanding, they may get confused if you call eg a Black USAmerican a gringo.

Tbh, a pet that's friendly and tameable like a dog but physically a wolf would be cool. I think wolves are very cute.

I agree it wouldn't be right for her to pay off your mortgage. But I think either 50/50 or proportionate to income (i.e. 1.3/1) splitting of bills, groceries, and other costs incurred by the both of you, is reasonable. But you're in relationship, not a contract, so do discuss this with her and see what the both of you would prefer.

...no, BDS. There's no M.

Fellow feds

Hey, that's just because you break them in the game... clicks link oh, it's actually designed with fractures nvm...

I think some users who use the fediverse a lot may judge on instance. I don't really, except sometimes when I see a reactionary comment from .world and I'm like, "yeah that checks out".

I'm also not a professional but I think it should be perfect for a YouTube-style video. You can easily overlay things, add text, etc.

It's not hard to obtain someone's biometric data. My concern wouldn't be Amazon knowing my handprint (my government has my handprint, Amazon can just ask them if they want), but how incredibly easy it is to just get a print of someone else's palm and charge them for your shopping. Pretty silly to use any biometrics as a primary authenticator rather than as a 2FA option.

Imo it's still very valuable even if not profitable. eg YouTube is quite famously a massive money sink for Google but I doubt Google would want to let go of its monopoly on online video sharing.

I didn't start using Gentoo when I was 10. Is it over for me?

My age keeps increasing.

I like my memes to come with a bibliography.

It's quite common for nazis to do both. "The death count is inflated, but they deserved it anyway/I wish it were more" and such.

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, a Palestinian-led boycott of a small number of companies that are particularly heavily involved in Israeli apartheid and colonialism of Palestinians.

"Why are you so mad" I'm having a casual conversation on a social media platform lol.

I didn't vote in the US presidential election because I'm neither a citizen nor resident, and I'm also banned from entering your borders anyway lol. But sure I'm responsible for your fascism. Sorry for telling you to do effective things instead of checks notes sending pointless messages to underpaid Apple employees assigned to read customer complaints, who will have been told by their bosses to disregard these messages. My bad, don't do any political activity, just complain to corpos instead.

Now where the hell did I say "do nothing". Hilarious that liberals' idea of "doing something" is "put a comment into Apple complaints that they can easily not even look at".