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In the shower?

Nah, man. I do that to my wife as a power move when I step out of the shower.

In North America, a CV with a photo on it is instantly binned, as it opens up the company to charges of racial or sexual discrimination if the applicant isn’t chosen.

Seriously - add a photo of yourself to your CV if you want a 100% rejection rate anywhere in America or Canada.

And more and more businesses are also limiting what characters you use, as well.

Like, my random generator uses characters from the entire European UTF-8 printable character set. This expands the number of usable characters from about 68-74 (the typical uppercase, lowercase, 0-9 & special characters) to about 1,200 characters. This includes all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek variations used across Europe.

Just using the wider UTF-8 range nearly always doubles the bitwise complexity (as KeePass measures it) for passwords of the same length, if not more, thereby dramatically reducing the ability for the password to be brute-forced. Not to mention using characters that are not expected to be in passwords in the first place - most brute forcing simply doesn’t account for that where a primarily English-speaking victim set is concerned.

Plus, the passwords are not short. I usually prefer 32 characters, and in important/mission-critical services I expand it to 64 characters.

I was always told I would become more conservative as I got older.

Joke’s on them. Actually understanding capitalism and conservatism and how politics are corrupted by money has bodily yeeted me so far left that I am two good shakes away from being an anachro-communist.

The real irony being that idealized “pure” democracy - fully participatory democracy where the people vote directly on policy, and politicians and most of the political apparatus no longer exists - is essentially political communism. All that remains are bureaucrats whose only job is to implement and coordinate the policies that the people vote for.

pie is superior to cake in every way.

For me, that depends. I have had both shitty cakes and shitty pies. The cake needs to avoid butter cream or frosting in favour of whipped cream, and the pie needs to NOT be mostly sugar in the filling/topping.

I’ve had a sweet tooth since childhood, and the only foods which have ever turned that sweet tooth against me (in terms of having an expected sugar presence) have been both pies and cakes.

And that is literally all what it is - a physical squeamishness. That’s it. And no, a firm, professional business handshake doesn’t trigger it.

And I see two people going nookie on each other, I’ll yell at them to get a room no matter what the combination. I don’t need to see your tentacle-tongues in action, much less anything more risqué.

These are the kinds of people who make me actively cram down my own personal squeamishness surrounding the subject to actively try to be a better person towards trans and intergender people and anyone else who is non-binary.

Our civilization could be so much better without hate. Especially when it’s over variations of conception or development. People can’t do a damn thing about it – as an AuDHD person myself, I know. I wish there was a pill that could utterly eliminate all symptoms of my ADD, but there isn’t.

Yeah, Apple has a lot of shitty restrictions in its walled garden. Firefox not being able to use its own rendering engine being a big one for me. And there are plenty more, such as a lack of responsiveness to legitimate devs when they report copycat rip-offs.

But as the Android ecosystem has shown, a breakdown of the walled garden has seen malware and scams explode in number. Many of the secondary app stores just don’t have the resources and tools to keep users safe.

Allowing alternative walled gardens is not the answer. Dramatically lowering the barriers to legitimate app developers is.