Yes, but it’s a little worse than that. One might take that to mean environmental, congenital, or even genetic factors. But there’s more. Consider the role that trauma has to play here as it can directly cause arrested psychological development:

https://psychcentral.com/ptsd/signs-trauma-has-you-stuck

Ah, I see the problem. The punctuation is wrong.

But as who we really are , fellow Americans.

FTFY

Not anymore. >_<

Put him in a red uniform and let him tell us odd facts about museum ships and out-of-the-way (windy) Federation worlds.

Possibly? Or maybe people will think twice about deadnaming you.

I mean, maybe if you bake a stone cold potato that was in the fridge and then cook it for two hours? But even then we’re probably talking about a handful of minutes at the most.

Which car company bar did you say you work for?

A major one.

they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying.

That and they’re mad because their virtual monopoly status didn’t protect them from market disruption. They just sat back, assuming that there was no way these rogue taxi services were going to evade the law for long. The fact that an entire industry acted on such a bad take suggests, to me, a lot of anti-competitive bullshit behind the scenes.

Anyway, I agree. All they had to do was either add rideshare-like features to their service, merge with rideshare services, or become one themselves. The investment capital was clearly there, and making a modernization pitch with brand recognition of an established taxi company would have been a slam-dunk.

Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn’t set up

Wait, what?

Real question here: has anyone else had luck side-stepping the Live365 signup during/after install? I’ve done this, and I’m very confused that more people haven’t.

I think the punchline goes multiple ways at once: “the protesters were stupid thinking this would help”, “the protesters were stupid in how they tried to protest”, and “everyone back then was stupid because it’s Waterworld now.”

Yes

I’m dead. How is anyone this bad at delivering crucial information?

Oh, everything’s fine now, …

I wish. Nope, nothing like my family.

… but two weeks ago she was murdered.

Nevermind, this checks out.

Thanks for the encouragement!

I have a question. Would age be at all a factor in the vibe? How about acute arthritis and being a newbie? I wouldn’t expect to just “fit in” immediately, but I’m left wondering if a slower middle-aged dude would have a hard time hanging with that crowd.

He wants you to use X like you would use your credit card.

I should have seen this coming.

That same year, Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. In October 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion. (wikipedia)

Aw man, he’s trying to build Paypal? Again?

I’m still amazed the Internet itself works.

Same here. FWIW, it’s built on older, slower, less-reliable tech, which forced ridiculous amounts of resiliency into every layer of the design. It’s still amazing, but perhaps slightly less so if we look back 40 years. I’m convinced that some parts are running just fine over infrastructure no better than wet string.

I’d go looking for another mindflayer offering “spotless mind” services and pay to have those memories removed. Assuming they can be trusted, of course. The hard part being that they’re still mindflayers.

While not the same, I bet lobster tacos are pretty tasty.

At home battling depression by the looks of it. Good luck!

Thanks for the Champions of Krynn flashback. 12-year-old me used to love exploiting the item duplication save glitch; the game was practically over once I found a wand of fireball. Character classes were irrelevant after that.

Kobolds? Fireball. Zombies? Fireball. Draconians? Absolutely use fireball. Paladin death knight lich? Believe it or not, fireball.