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That never really caught on though.

I’ve been in IT for over 30 years and never once heard someone try to make an acronym of URL.

If an acronym is convenient, it will overrule an initialism.

You seem to be insisting on avoiding the acronym that is right there, and I’m not sure why.

Someone would have to write a song about it.

Same. Started with StarOffice 5.0, which was a complete train wreck.

Libre Office. I’ve been using it for decades.

I don’t want a kill switch, I want an enable switch (which I will never use).

Opt-in, not opt-out.

Tixati isn’t open source, but it is very good, free, and available on Linux.

I’d love to do a fecal swab test on your phone.

Yep, you’d definitely find some. just like everywhere else.

I wonder how many times you’ve put it in your mouth to hold it.

What? WTF? Never. Not in the nearly 30 years I’ve owned a cell phone have I EVER put it in my mouth. Why would you do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do that.

I wonder how many times you’ve ate shit.

Well, let’s not get into details. But it’s ironic that the same world with a profoundly unhealthy obsession with a germ-free environment is the same one that has normalized anal sex, ATM, and analingus.

I tend to stay away from both extremes, wash my hands well, keep up with my vaccinations, and don’t stress over the fact that literally every single thing I touch is contaminated. The number of people who get sick (particularly with fecal coliform) from their phones is inconsequentially small.

Yes, your phone is dirty; but if you clean it, you’ll be eliminating a tiny fraction of a percent of the bacteria and viruses you’re exposed to every single day of your life.

You do you, but cleaning phones is almost entirely the product of fear mongering by the media. I didn’t think anyone actually bothered.

Wow, neighbours! My dad was in Red Deer. I had a teacher in Edmonton who made fun of me for being left handed.

Who cleans their phone? Who disinfects their phone?

I wipe my screen if it’s dirty, and once every month or so I’ll take it out of the case to clean the gunk out.

My dad had his hand smacked and his fingers taped together to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1950s in public school in Canada.

When I was in high school in the 1980s, we had a teacher who threw chalk at us.

So yeah, it happens.

For those with no personal morals, limits to action are only enforced by consequences.

In the US, there are currently no consequences for immoral or criminal activity by the government in power or their minions (e.g. ICE). Thus, the only limit to their actions is their own morality; and they have been actively encouraging/recruiting support from those with absolutely no moral compass.

So no, there are no limits until consequences stsrt happening.

A low hum is almost certainly going to be 60Hz (or 50Hz in some parts of the world) line noise.

As many have said, it’s often a ground loop - but since you have a single device plugging in to unpowered (presumably!) speakers, that’s not the problem. In your case, the stereo itself is producing the hum.

So if you’re in North America, there’s one thing to check before returning. I’m guessing that a cheap Amazon amp has either a wall-wart or two-prong plug. If possible, try rotating the plug 180 degrees and see if that helps.

However, there’s a good chance that the plug is polarized (i.e. one prong is larger than the other) in which case you won’t be able to flip it.

Sounds like you didn’t strip naked. Where is that the norm?

Most provincial governments have stopped importing US liquor.

Kid should get a shovel to the face. No grace period.

This article is making the rounds, and I’ll say here what I’ve said elsewhere:

Cassettes are CRAP!

I did a lot of recording back in the day, using a good 3-head deck and good tape. I manually adjusted the bias for best results, and really pushed the format to its best. At the end of it all though, cassettes were never a hi-fi format and mostly sucked.

You want to own your music? Digital downloads are cheap and convenient. You want physical media? Buy CDs (audio quality, convenience, longevity) or records if you must.

Cassettes are loved by insecure hipsters. The rest of us actually like music.

One difference is that U.S. liberals are still likely to believe in American exceptionalism.

Americans almost universally believe they are fundamentally the best - moral leaders of the world, even if they have temporarily lost their way.

The great protest folk singers from the U.S., such as Woody and ArlonGuthrie, the Seegers, and so many others, feel that they’re fighting the good fight to bring the U.S. back to where it was meant to be: the ‘leader of the free world.’

It’s an infectuous ego that taints the U.S. psyche on a deep and profound level.