In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, companies would call homes to ask what was in their fridge, cupboard, etc.

That is what aggregators served to defeat. Like Digg, reddit, or Lemmy. That’s what votes and “top hot trending” filters are all for.

Not saying the resolve the issue, just saying this is well known and understood

There’s no black and white to these terms.

Suffice it to say, when a working class person, say, gets a DUI, it will literally ruin their life.

When a middle class person gets a DUI, it will ruin their year.

When you’re upper middle class, that DUI fucking sucks. But you got it. Family is still going on vacation. Christmas isn’t cancelled.

When an upper class person gets a DUI, it will inconvenience their evening, and maybe, just maybe, their public image. (gasp)

Not having a credit card doesn’t make it any more difficult for someone to steal your identity, provided you keep your card secure/on you.

Like, the essence of having a line of credit does not prevent someone from opening a line of credit in your name. Freezing your credit does?

I dont have an answer to your question, but if that is really the only reason you don’t have a CC, just get a CC. Get a CC and freeze your lines of credit. Then your identity is more secure than it is right now, and you’ll have a credit card.

Man the difference between 23 and 33 and giving a shit is crazy.

I had my heart broken badly when I was 23 and honestly, it fucked up a good bit of my 20s. Even some of my 30s.

My advice first will be therapy. Breakups hurt losing friends hurts. Your gonna feel the pain of the collapse of the ability to dream about your shared future a lot. You need to start dreaming about a new different future.

This next piece of advice might sound impossible, but you need to go no contact with her for a good 6 months while you process this. That muscle in your brain trained to daydream about your future is gonna be a bitch, and hanging out and acting like friends is gonna make that take forever. Go no contact. You can be friends again later, but not now.

You got this.

This PC is basically top of the line.

Important question? Will be be running Windows or Linux?

Intel i9 14th gen and Nvidia graphics on Linux… Those CPUs have had issues and Nvidia graphics and Linux are a notorious frustration. Don’t get me wrong, I do it, it’s doable. It’s just a bit of troubleshooting here and there.

With Windows, this won’t be as much of a consideration.

But to answer your question, it’s top tier.

It depends on your perspective of what feigned happiness is.

There’s a fine line between faking a mood and trying your best to see something in a positive light.

In my neck of the woods, gas station owners have sharpies which of the 10 buttons is the mute button.

So as soon as the ad plays you just press mute.

It is God awful though.

Oh, maybe you missed it but it’s because there’s an asshole in office.

I find Bell Of The Ranch usually summarizes these sorts of political situations adequately.

Disclaimer: She’s not a news source. But, you know, neither are we here, so…

You could probably deobfuscate their ad IDs on googles network to obtain real time tracking data for free.

It’d be a non-trivial project, but 100% doable.

Real Time Bidding is wild.

In both cases, it is decided by subject locality. Not object locality.

As I said.

It’s not physical distance.

“Here on earth, the air is made mostly of oxygen.”

“Here in the milky way Galaxy…”

It’s about locality to the subject.

Listen, data is singular, and data is plural.

Data goes into a database. It’s comprised of individual components of data.

You know it’s true because you read this effortlessly.

Did your kid have a working phone before or no phone at all?

This is very unusual, be it pocket change for them or not. If you were a loaded with cash, would they be cool with you buying their kid a Ferrari? A cyber truck? It’s not a normal thing to do, and it doesn’t respect that a given home might carry a particular set of rules of values.

If your kid has no phone, I could see this as a possible charitable act. Still weird. If you kid has a working phone this is fucking bananas, and you’re right to question every detail of this.

Considering it as “too stupid” is kind of delightfully ironic.

To answer your question, no.

I posit that any person you’d imagine to be “too stupid to be depressed” is by another measure smarter than any depressed person on a degree of how to use their mental bandwidth.

D’oh.

Yep. My b. WordPress or bust, really. You can mess around with drupal or Joomla, but WordPress will be the lowest barrier to entry for self hosting.

I agree, I only include it as a “woah this WordPress stuff is confusing!” lower barrier to entry.

Try WordPress first. If they’re absolutely stuck, wix is a lot more beginner friendly. But yes, beware of the downsides to having your hand held.

Use WordPress. It’s by far the most used content management platform, so if you’re a beginner, you’ll find the most resources. It’s also free and open source.

Then you can, if you want to make it even easier, use a page builder like Elementor or Divi or something. Or not.

There’s also Wix for very simple page builds.

I have used android phones without a case. Only one ended up with a crack.

I got a work phone. It’s an iPhone. Cracked screen in less than a week.