I dunno; I thought he was pretty convincing. I mean, the man had a Bat Card and everything.

Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.

So much of their arguments rely on that; “clearly the Constitution says nothing explicitly on this issue (or alternatively, the constitution wasn’t microscopically specific this was a case it had in mind so, really, who are we to allow it to apply to this scenario?); as an originalist, I just presume that there was no intent rather than assuming anyone in the project of writing a founding document has any interest in it working fairly or well.”

Yeah; that’s totally fair.

Keep in mind it’s the same company that tweeted a dog whistle to Gamer gate and had a few insensitive transphobic faux pas: https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/23/18015434/gog-twitter-wontbeerased-hashtag/.

I could believe the latter ones were potentially accidental but I don’t know how tweeting the exact starting date of Gamer gate with the phrase “R.I.P games journalism” can be anything but intentional.

Is…is that not what everyone’s doing‽

Gotta love clarification that makes a position more reasonable inside the clown-world fantasy the individual lives in but, in turn, also reveals just how more exaggeratingly stupid they actually are.

I mean…under the right director, she could pull it off. Wooden acting is perfect for an emotionally stunted character; I’d boycott the film but I could see it working.

new drivers who don’t know how to drive stick but will say they know how to drive.

That’s how my great-grandpa got his first job, truck driving; might’ve been the first time he drove in general, automatic or stick.

Heh, it might; granted, I’d just done a cursory glance since I was at work, at the time, but, taking a further look, it seems that 40 WpM is average with 50s and 60s being above average.

Granted, that include people who aren’t touch typists so that might bring the numbers down.

I also tried retaking a typing test again as, the first time, I’d done one that was only a minute (again, being at work); I did another random one and got 66 WpM and another one that was 5 minutes and got 61 WpM. So I also seemed to undersell myself in that first comment, it looks like.

I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.

I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.

Love that for them.

It’s not the bulk of your point (of which I agree with) but your mention of the back button reminded me how much I despise – sometimes above everything else – how much these sites override basic functionality of the browser, overriding inbuilt history navigation, screwing up Ctrl click behaviors, stealing my right-click menu or default key bindings.

There’s a lot of reasons one might not want to use TikTok but the reason that stops me before even having to consider other reasons (but I can’t really explain to most people) is that it’s a site designed without any really respect or regard for the user.

Alt+d doesn’t work and Ctrl+l pops up some modal about logging in. I can’t open any of the recommended videos in a new tab because they clearly must’ve just done them as onclicks and not real anchor tags so right clicking doesn’t give me the option and neither does Ctrl clicking (which – also – that’s…got to be an accessibility violation, right?). And more than half the time the full page doesn’t even load because it’s such a strangle of resources that it needs me to click a button on the page because it wasn’t able to load the videos listing of an account in time.

The whole thing is just a nightmare in terms of design and primarily not even in terms of inefficiency but direct hostility to UX. Absolute garbage.

Oh, I didn’t mean it was a primal instinct; just that it seems to be a common cultural one.

I definitely feel you, though; it’s very much not mine, either.

I used to be in the same camp (and it’s still not for me) but it started to make more sense to me when I realized it’s kind of been a thing we’ve been doing for a while.

There’s the well known Papi, in Spanish, but, even as far back as the 1930s in The Grapes of Wrath, you have Pa Joad refer to Ma Joad as “Ma”. Even in The Year without a Santa Clause (for a more modern but still older reference), Santa refers to Mrs. Clause as “Ma”.

The idea of using these titles for anyone other than my own parents was not something that’s intuitive to me, at all, but clearly it’s a thing humans have been doing for (at least) a century. Not all those examples are in sexual contexts but I imagine that a nickname you have for your partner isn’t not going to end up continuing into the bedroom, at least not for everyone.

In that context, it started to make more sense to my brain.

Honestly, that was the biggest difference for me, when I switched.

A bunch of my issues I’d had on Windows just went away, overnight. And, sure, I ran into other problems; but I would’ve on Windows, too, except I can usually resolve them on Linux.

My machine is so much more usable, just on a daily basis; and I’ve learned so much more about my computer naturally since I switched.

I’m using an adblocker so maybe you’re seeing something else than I am which had me misunderstand your comment (which I mostly mention because I didn’t notice any ad.s so, based off of that, maybe what what you were seeing was also different from me)? The entire piece was written by her with no other people’s opinions.

It was a whole article entirely written by her, reflecting both on her feelings from the entire event and how it for within the other major events in both the culture and the nation (given her experience catipulted her into both). So your response hadn’t made sense since the entire thing is written by her and her thoughts about the ordeal.

You explicitly asked if she’s ever complained about it and were given an article written by her contemplating her feelings on it; it was directly a resource to your very question.

She explicitly says:

There are even some people who feel my White House experiences don’t have a place in this movement, as what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognize that it constituted a gross abuse of power

She, now, agrees that – whatever her desires at the time – that Bill Clinton both had an overwhelming amount of power over her as both her boss and nearly 3 decades her senior. And we got to see what that power difference could mean for her when the relationship went sour.

I mean, you definitely are but, considering the sheer efficiency you can achieve, nothing but respect from over here.