Oh, absolutely. I was just surprised they said anything at all about it.

OPM finally acknowledged it’s possible they might not get the funding to do this from Congress and then tried to compare it to getting furloughed. The mental gymnastics were Olympic level.

My undergrad program had us write Java code by hand for some beginning assignments and exams. The TAs would then type whatever we wrote into Eclipse and see if it ran. They usually graded pretty leniently, though.

Every single election, the League of Women Voters puts out responses to their surveys about candidates’ relevant viewpoints and platform. Every single election I have to remind people it even exists. It’s the easiest way to filter out candidates. Do their viewpoints align with mine? Did they even bother to respond to the survey?

Takes like 5-10 minutes easily. There’s simply no excuse.

It was only if they fell above the knees that made you gay. If they fell below the knee or were basketball shorts, you were fine.

Pretty sure Hawaii still has their publicly-funded healthcare option. I know a number of communities across the US had much smaller free insurance programs that mostly died off when the ACA passed. Some of them might still exist as heavily means-tested shadows of their former selves.

I just can’t imagine why people think it’s a Nazi salute…oh wait,

Judy Woodruff was forced to publicly apologize because Trump and Bibi said they didn’t talk about delaying it, but I still think she was right:

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-crime-benjamin-netanyahu-call-ceasefire-hamas-1942248

I mean, I’d trust unnamed sources over these two guys any day.

I don’t know about culture glorifying it or it being a huge percentage of people, but it’s a real problem. Just one example: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10132391/Riot-after-Chinese-teachers-try-to-stop-pupils-cheating.html

The list missed the disappointment that was Age of Empires Online. Because who doesn’t love microtransactions and live service in their RTS? Apparently it’s still playable on a fan server.

The fun fact about Methylene Blue that always is a hit with students is it also turns your pee a green/blue-green color.

Yep!

https://www.vg247.com/take-a-look-at-this-expensive-dungeons-and-dragons-pinball-machine-that-features-gerard-way

This is pretty cool. I just saw an article about a D&D-themed pinball machine that’s being made and immediately my mind jumped to wondering just how difficult it is to maintain these things. It’d be fun to own one but I have no idea how many other businesses are out there like this one.

It’s definitely dumb, but it has been around for a very very long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_sexual_practices

Bonus gross points for the Age of Partners section.

I think he’d probably prefer the phrase “Amerika über alles” instead, based on his reading preferences.

There’s also mint jelly that goes relatively well with lamb. I guess mint chutney is also somewhat similar.

I think Webfishing did it pretty well.

The game offers a bunch of goofy cosmetic player titles like “Good Boy” and “Shark Bait” as well as serious ones like “Bi” and “Pan” that cost something like $5 in game currency.

Someone complained that there wasn’t a “Straight” title, the game dev agreed and added the title for $9,999.

Right up there with Dan Savage birthing the word santorum as a gift to the American people.

This guy’s been doing it for 23 years now:

https://www.justingignac.com/nyc-garbage

Definitely helps to be able to at least read and understand code. I remember the documentation being decent enough. IIRC it was a thing to provide scripts that look helpful but actually contained malicious code to do all sorts of nasty things to your in-game system. It’s really cool.