conciselyverbose @ conciselyverbose @sh.itjust.works

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lol I have to go back to the bank (when there's a manager, because there wasn't last time🤦‍♀️), to turn online banking back on for my account.

It got turned off because I didn't pick up some spam call they made.

It's not odd. If that's who you interact with, that's who you'll be friends with.

Age is a number, and friendship with someone with life experience isn't going to hurt anyone.

The thing with that is that it's actually a useful generalization to make in a lot of scenarios.

If you know nothing about the distinction between two possible outcomes, treating them as equally likely is a helpful tool to continue with the back of the envelope guess. Knowing this path needs 5 coin tosses to go right and this one needs 10 is helpful to approximate which is better.

Your example is obviously outside the realm where you have zero information, so uniform distribution is no longer the reasonable default. But the idea is from a reasonable technique, taken to extremes by someone who doesn't fully get it.

It's not the ratio.

Gamepass's entire library of "not dogshit", cumulatively, isn't worth a year of the subscription to actually own. They don't publish a meaningful number of games worth playing if they were free, and you can count the indie games (which are cheap to actually own anyways) that are actually good on your hands.

every single new game

Their catalogue is dogshit and has a very small selection of games that are even worth considering on a steep discount.

It is. His point is you can replicate the gooey texture with a cheese that's actually edible with almost zero effort, though.

It's an incredibly far cry from the "all" he mentioned, and it isn't close to the best or most desirable.

I'm well aware of what it has available, and it's genuinely not good enough to get me to install Windows if they provided it for free. But the entire reason Gamepass exists is because they know it makes them more long term than buying your games.

Oh, randomly, on a whim drawing an awful map to show off his brilliance? That's for sure possible.

I guess RFK having no clue and calling it perfect also makes sense.

What I don't believe is that he knows the name of anything but Israel, Iraq, and maybe Egypt.

You can't.

Age verification is not compatible with any remotely acceptable version of the internet. It's an obscene privacy violation in all cases by definition.

Any implementation short of a webcam watching you while you use the site is less than trivial to bypass with someone else's ID while opening numerous massive tracking/security holes for no reason.

That means stuff they publish. Which, despite all their acquisitions, is consistently very mediocre. And because of the day one "free" status, almost always has bad extra monetization on top of it.

But you don't get every single new game with GamePass, either. You get a mediocre set of stuff published by Microsoft with some occasional AA games and a random selection of indies, some of which are actually good, but also aren't that expensive to just buy and own instead.

"We were talking about the Middle East, and he took a piece of paper and he drew on it a] map of the Middle East with all the nations on it, which most Americans couldn't do," he told the right-wing broadcaster.

A. I don't believe this even a little.

B. I couldn't do it.

C. For the fucking commander in chief, this is not even sort of impressive.

Apparently I phrased it badly because every vote on it is down lol.

So it's probably my bad.

That's literally my point.

Most people know that email isn't tied to a provider app.

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.

It's also not even close to how email works and plenty of people use email apps that aren't tied to a provider.

If they actually get implemented? There's a good chance your prices from anything that touches China will increase by most of the listed tariffs. Since it will disproportionately affect China, it's possible some stuff will eventually pull manufacturing somewhere else, but that isn't going to happen overnight. Moving manufacturing is not fast and no one else is equipped to just flip a switch and take over for them.

Your income will likely not increase 60%.

Than you had a mediocre education.

That's not how competent teachers work.

Edit: was too asshole-y. He can't control bad teachers unwilling to admit their mistakes.

A test that punishes a correct answer is wrong, and yes, it's entirely reasonable and not uncommon to have multiple valid answers that are accepted, or for a decent teacher to have a student point out "this answer was right" and allow anyone else who gave the same answer to get the points back as well.

No it wouldn't. Ban is exactly, perfectly, correct.

If you considered taking points off for ban on a multiple choice test you're a bad teacher with a flawed understanding of the language.