I don’t think it’s necessarily phobic but I personally find it a bit presumptuous for someone you’re not dating yet to express preferences about how they prefer you to groom.

HAVING the preference doesn’t seem like a problem and doesn’t seem linked to transphobia.

In my perfect world you would learn about their preferences when you were trying a new thing (shaving, haircut, outfit, whatever) and they were like “I find this new thing incredibly attractive.”

Are you left handed? I am and I feel like a lot of websites and devices read lefties as swiping sideways when we’re scrolling down.

I was bored so I looked up these apps for receipt scanning and it looks like it’s a combination of couponing and consumer data broker. Most of them require you to activate promos on the app first, go shopping, then get “cash back” for certain promo items when you take a picture of the receipt.

I’m guessing this is on top of the discounts you can get directly from grocery store apps (which are surely already brokering purchase data).

One or two of the apps don’t require activating offers at all so I guess those ones are JUST data brokering.

Agreed. I tried looking for a big monitor instead of a TV last time we were in the market for one and there were shockingly few options.

Not privacy focused but read on if you want my thoughts on Duo vs Busuu. I used Duolingo back in the day but they chased me away with their complete 180 on ads (they used to advertise as no ads ever!). Duolingo was great for learning vocab but terrible for grammar in my opinion (at least eng-> german and eng-> spanish).

After bailing I didn’t use anything for awhile but I picked up Busuu a few years ago shortly after it was purchased by Chegg. They have a premium and an ad supported tier and the ad tier is terrible, it makes you have to close out at the end of each lesson to proceed past an annoying screen trying to get you to upgrade. The premium is advertised at about $70 a year but it comes down to around $50 for good sales. The monthly is a bit pricey ($10 or $12 or something).

Anyways, I really like Busuu for learning grammar. They have a flash card section for vocab that’s excellent as well but the grammar is where I saw huge improvements. The grammar is introduced in the lessons then given a strength that degrades over time until you practice it again. It tells you where your skills are weak so you can focus on a particular grammar element.

I also really like that they include regional differences in word use and regional expressions.

They recently introduced an AI speaking feature but I haven’t opted into it because I’m not comfortable with them processing my voice data. I haven’t read the privacy policy. This means skipping 1-2 lessons each unit which isn’t a big deal to me.

Hope this info is helpful to someone!

Thankfully, LG doesn’t make disabling Live Plus too hard, though you do have to click through a few menus. If you want to turn it off, here’s how:

1. Press the Settings button on your remote (the gear icon).

2. When the side menu pops up, select Settings.

3. Chose the General option.

4. Scroll down and select System.

5, Select Additional Settings.

6. Toggle Live Plus off.

In the Settings menu on its TVs, LG says, “By turning Live Plus on, you understand that the content displayed on your TV can be recognized, and that the viewing information may be used to provide you with an enhanced viewing experience and personalized services including content recommendations and advertisements.”

Yep, college profs are regularly failing students for being illiterate at the top 10 uni my partner works at. We had a doom and gloom conversation about this after an event recently. These students should be the cream of the crop. Profs say the decline predated but seems accelerated by the covid pandemic. As you said, they say administration had been pressuring profs to keep averages up so some of the decline has been obfuscated by padded data (grades). Remedial reading classes are needed even at top universities. Students use AI for both papers and presentations and profs are worried that they are skipping the steps that train your brain to think deeply and analytically.

hehehehe

You could build an app for the Pebble watch! A little game to take advantage of the new touchscreen feature or a habit tracker or something.

https://developer.repebble.com/sdk/

https://apps.repebble.com/en_US/watchapps

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Solid apology imo

Does the CEO do a lot of coding there?

Quite happy they decided to open source the app

Keira says the questions she was asked included: “Who is Mother Teresa?” and “How long does it take for the sun’s rays to reach the Earth?”.

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Keira adds that “they made me play with a doll and criticised me for not making enough eye contact”.

How long has it been on 99.9%? Still a chance you just need to wait for someone to turn on their computer?

If I can’t get an audiobook specifically I usually mark it as a request in the Libby app and hope the library will purchase some licenses. Does your library offer similar services?

To answer your original question though I don’t generally buy stuff I’ve failed to torrent. I intermittently search for it again unless I forget about it though.

The Big Mouse lobby has been leveraging our abilities for mouse healthcare research for decades! I don’t think it’s going to stop anytime soon. Though maybe they’ll reach immortality and ease up on us.

My brother (not adhd) was able to do it himself but basically compiled a database to do it.

Have a friend who is essentially bedridden who got denied 3 times before having an attorney file.

I wonder if it’s a bit like the food stamp process where what you get depends in large part on who you get as your program officer so it’s a bit of a crap shoot.

Will do:)

got it. Thanks for sharing your recipe!

When you say blend it do you mean in a blender or just mix them?