Deconceptualist

Discordian!

More serious answer: I never had one to begin with. Why start now? All it seems to do is sow division.

Also, some words

My understanding is that AOSP is still and will continue to be a thing. That’s Android. What Google has done though is put more and more new capabilities into Play Services, which are not open, rather than AOSP.

I hope someone will correct me or add better nuance though.

Maybe? I’m not a lawyer, I’ve just worked with some of them. For clients at least, my understanding is that venue and audience can matter. But you could be right regarding the attorneys themselves.

I mean, did they say it in a court (or a brief), or just to a news reporter? I feel like “allege” could be correct if it’s not an official record.

If you live somewhere with mosquitos, you can’t win.

Dark colors: better for stains, worse for avoiding mosquitos

Light colors: worse for stains, better for avoiding mosquitos

I used to do tech support with them as a client. Worst IT team to work with, they were always impatient jerks. I never did figure out if the company hired shitty people in the first place or just treated them like dirt with no outlet for their stress except outside vendors.

I built the Apollo Lunar Lander not long ago. I enjoy the experience of putting together Lego kits so sure, I’d do that again. Or even a bigger one like the Saturn V.

The problem is what to do with these after I finish assembling them. Nicer kits have a good number of specialized parts so I don’t want to take them apart. So they just sit on a shelf and collect dust.

I’m no expert and I’ve been out of the game for a while, but as I recall the platforms are all quite different. Maybe it’s common now to only allow messages between matches.

But anyway, I was referring more to the trolls and harassers that need to be banned entirely, not just blocked/ignored by individuals. These people will put nasty inappropriate stuff as their profile pics in the first place, and create new accounts just to pester others.

I think the problem there is moderation. Who is going to do the work of blocking/banning 1000 creepy messages and dick pics per minute on an open platform?

Let’s be honest, what these apps are going to do is boost user engagement (read: waste your fucking time) by pulling you into conversations with AI chatbots. The longer you’re there, the more advertisements they can feed you. It’s going to be harder and harder to find a real person, because investors don’t benefit from that.

Probably Grontar: The Frutang, circa 2003.

Wood Science must be a rather strange field.

1 mL of pure water weighs exactly 1 g at 20 °C and 1 atm pressure :) It’s a defined standard, useful for calibrating other things.

1 mL. Studying chemistry has made that extremely useful and now other units seem ridiculous.

If we’re talking about geology or oceanography though, cubic meters are fine.

There’s a trans/egg joke in here somewhere…

Misread this as MO (Missouri) for a sec and I was ready to be flabbergasted.

Anyway, good job Maryland!

Ohh. I use a separate phone for work so I didn’t notice that. Yeah search bar would’ve been a better spot for sure.

Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?

But what if I love paying 1 million dollars to license outdated software? 🤡