I wouldn’t say it’s a strong opinion, but I’ve never seen a convincing argument that “inflation” (read “greedy bastards”) wouldn’t immediately wipe out the extra income - which would be very bad if the UBI were to replace other forms of welfare.

I tried paying for something off Facebook Marketplace over the internet rather than in-person. Of course I was scammed. Fortunately it was only for about $35.

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Except the Bible is less a diagnosis and more a treatment plan. And people definitely have been killed by bad treatment plans before.

Stephanie Sterling (and not for the reason you probably think).

I understand that the gaming industry is shit, and therefore reporting on it is always going to skew negative, but it really felt to me like the negativity started permeating their content as a whole - to the point that I got the feeling that they didn’t really enjoy video games at all anymore.

I also started to get the feeling that they resent their audience for responding positively to such negative content, too - doing things like complaining that the worst-of lists get more views than the best-of lists. You don’t have to make them if you don’t want to.

Also, it’s cool that they found a passion, but I really don’t care about wrestling.

You have to be really careful trying to buy physical copies nowadays, too, since bootlegs are absolutely everywhere. Especially on Ebay.

RIP Burger Becky

Wikipedia has a few examples of the different ways you could say those amounts out loud here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd#Writing_conventions_and_pronunciations

You literally don’t understand hyperbole.

Pineapple on pizza is fine. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to eat it.

Based.

The use of ‘literally’ as hyperbole is fine.

The sentences “I laughed so much I died” and “I laughed so much I literally died” mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu’Re DeAd?

Jewellery is actually spelled with the extra syllable outside of the US.

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know “kilo” means 1000 - I don’t care since it’s obvious from context.

Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.

If you don’t believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody’s ever sold RAM by the “gibibyte”.

Glasses

How you doin’?

I say that Emma Stone should divorce her husband and marry me instead.

It really depends how basic and how “general public” we’re talking. At work I’ve had multiple people email me their credit card details in plaintext. That might fall into the “beyond help” category.

A few points I think are important:

• Use an adblocker

• Use a password manager

• Don’t connect things to the internet that don’t need to be connected to the internet

• If it needs to be connected to the internet, keep it up-to-date

I think that covers the basics without impacting convenience too much. While I personally think that your TV is something that doesn’t need to be connected to the internet, I imagine most laypeople wouldn’t agree with me and do it anyway.

While this article has some good points, it really is sad, and kind of ironic, that the first paragraph of it is bullshit clickbait that completely undermines the rest of the text.

A tale as old as time. Banning media you don’t like is a lot easier than parenting your children.