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Sure, you can earn your right to vote, just fill out this basic literacy test real quick:

Now, you might complain that some of those questions are ambiguous. Don't worry, it's intended to be like that. It's real simple: if you're white, the test-giver will interpret it to agree with the answer you gave and you'll get to vote. If you're black, the test-giver will interpret it against you and you'll be disenfranchised. Totally fair!

And yes, this was a real test, used in Louisiana in 1964. People were getting disenfranchised using this as an excuse within living memory.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test

I don't want to agree because I like biking, but damn if "literally speed run" isn't clever.

To be fair, it's not as if it supports languages other than fucking Javascript anyway, so it mostly doesn't matter.

Edit: I don't want to split hairs about modules or json or whatever; I just want to be salty about how we could've had Scheme or Python in the browser.

even though the implementation was questionable

The implementation was not questionable. The implementation was blatantly nefarious and he fucking knew it, because why else would he have tried to hide it?

That's roughly what I remember: the threats were against "zionists" or "genociders" or similar, not any particular user by name, but this guy basically told on himself by interpreting it personally anyway.

(It's possible I'm unaware of other, more egregious, behavior as the situation escalated, but I think this was at least the thing that started the pearl-clutching initially.)

Nah. The best an adult could do would be to pull out of the region, but even if the US did that, there is no way Iran willingly goes back to the previous status quo. Iran controls the strait and the oil flow now, and it knows it. It has absolutely no reason not to fuck with the world's oil supply at whim, whenever anybody does something it or its allies don't like.

This is just one of the many ways Trump has done permanent damage to the world that can't be undone even after he's out of office/imprisoned/dead.

That's what Incognito Mode is for.

Nah.

I mean, yes, in the TNG era it was Rick Berman's fault. But it goes all the way back to TOS and Gene Roddenberry himself. And also costume designer William Ware Theiss, for that matter.

From https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory :

Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry. According to the "Art of Star Trek" book, Theiss preferred to design costumes that only appeared to be in danger of slipping or coming off, through the use of strategically-placed sheer or skin tone fabric. He was further able to enhance the effect by the censorship rules of the time regarding what parts of the body could or could not be shown (the navel being the most well-known restriction). He found he could get surprising amounts of appeal from the carefully-arranged display of skin not generally considered erogenous.

First, get a condenser microphone with an XLR plug and one of those adjustable arm stands:

Second, get an XLR->USB audio interface (or just a converter cable) to go with it.

I own the gear pictured, but I can't recommend those specific things because I bought them 8 years ago and they've been discontinued since. I started out with the box-shaped interface, but eventually realized I didn't need its features and swapped it for the XLR->USB cable to save space/complexity. If I were using wired headphones (studio monitors) instead of speakers I might have kept using the box.

Also (and perhaps most importantly): the mic itself is analog and the USB converter is just doing generic analog->digital conversion. There is zero reason for it to need any software other than the kernel's built-in USB audio driver.

Fines are just the cost of doing business.

Wake me up when corporate charters are dissolved and executives are put in prison.

The kind of homes that would be a starter home for a working class family back in the 1950s just don’t exist anymore.

First of all, yes they do. They're just mostly condos instead of single-family detached houses.

Second, even houses literally built in the '50s that still exist are expensive these days.

(That's why arrest data is required to be public, despite the damage it does to the arrestee's reputation, BTW.)