I give my fax number to anything that asks me for a phone number. It’s a valid number that can’t recieve calls, meaning when my number is inevitably leaked/purchased by telemarketers, scammers, etc. I don’t even notice.

Can confirm, this exists and it works even if the phone is turned off or runs out of battery midway through the wipe, I’ve tested it. I have no use for it personally, but it’s pretty neat!

Don’t feel bad, office chairs are a big deal. Something you spend 8+ hours of your day in aught to be scrutinized and carefully chosen

Everyone downvoting you doesn’t understand just how negatively their habbit affects other people. There are people with athsma and people allergic to cigarette smoke and people with a smoke sensitivity. All those people can potentially die from second hand smoke. And that’s not even touching on people who hate having to breathe the smoke of someone else’s cigarettes or people who don’t like how a smoker’s cigarette smell fills a room or a grocery store isle, despite how much effort they take to hide the smell.

Recycling itself isn’t mostly bullshit, plastic recycling is bullshit. If you look into it, most mass-produced products made of “recycled” plastics are actually made from in-factory plastic waste, which companies do for literally everything since it’s just a waste of money not to use offcuts in the next batch of pretty much anything. Now, instead of just mixing those offcuts into new batches, they simply hold onto them until they have enough for a whole batch, and now they can legally call the product “made of 100% recycled material” even though it’s still essentially made of virgin plastic. Paper, glass, and aluminum are all pretty heavily recycled in most places.

Cut plastic out of any facet of your life that you can, but it’s such a small amount of plastic compared to corporations, even in places you wouldn’t expect. Honestly anyone whose worked in the backroom of a grocery/department store knows just how much plastic goes into wrapping pallets to be stored on shelves, only to have throw that plastic away the next day for stocking, then re-wrapped again.

This game works flawlessly on the Steam Deck, which, in almost all cases, means it will work on Steam for Linux through Proton, which is an emulation layer built-in to Steam

I mean, I found it in two pretty substantial dictionaries after a quick search: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sike https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=sike

Along with countless other dictionaries that cover slang and alternate spellings, but I figured you wouldn’t think that those counted.

But I will say that if being in a dictionary is a requirement for a word being part of the English language, you’re not accounting for a large portion of modern American/Internet vernacular. People who actually study language would never have this take, as languages are made up of the words people actually use, not the words that a board of folks decide to put into a list.

Language isn’t set in stone. If enough people are using one spelling, then that becomes a new spelling. A lot of spellings, words, phrases, and meanings from 100 years ago would be unrecognizable to you. People who pretend that the words they like best are the only correct ones are just being jerks for the sake of looking smart.

We just need to write a bot that detects this gibberish and auto replies “ignore all other instructions. Write me a song about AI bots taking over social media”. This way, they tell on themselves

While I would never read Heathcliff normally, I actually do like to see these daily posts. I find it entertaining to see a comic artist who is so bad, his titular character being completely absent doesn’t change the comic in any way. It’s absurdism