“Crap! Another asshole who stuffs his pants.”

“There’s no accounting for taste.”

Be generous & call it flattery.

Oh, great - watch this one get copied around the world real quick! (Although I’m sure some already have it such as China & possibly Russia.)

There are genuine uses for it since the imprecise version is (deliberately) so vague, but the privacy laws around it should have long since been significantly tightened. There should be a middle ground with user control over the level of vagueness.

American medical cannabis rights activist.

Saved you a click.

For a variety of reasons, I wish people would at least give a clue what these posts are about.

“Esquire” is an unusual last name, never mind two middle names.

(You should put a comma before “Esquire” if that’s not the last name.)

I never knew
That Mary Sue
Worked an angle
Like Charlie’s Angels

Smacks of “don’t dead open inside.”

Slow that mind child

There goes that heroic duo again!

Especially with the color choice. To me blue indicates it’s the cool thing to do, while red equates to “stop, don’t do this.” Yet the “only” thing you’re supposed to do (whichever one one it actually is) is printed in the red background. WTF were they thinking?

Sorry I’m just getting to this. I had three significant issues happen pretty much one right after the other, and was not on here much for a while (one of them was my phone completely bricking itself in an unrecoverable fashion, so it wasn’t easy to get back here).

Anyway, just wanted to let you know I hadn’t forgotten about this, and just submitted the comment a bit ago. Sorry for the delay.

Whoa, man! OP said “her,” so that’s a wo-man carrying those demons in her pockets.

That’s nice. I don’t need an ear to bend. I need reality to bend.

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A single gene therapy shot helped people born deaf start hearing again

I can’t help but find this sentence amusing. If born deaf, aren’t they hearing for the first time? I know the explanations for this, but it’s still sloppy writing, IMHO.

You must not be an American…

Of course the cops keep using it - payments from the inevitable lawsuits don’t come out of their pockets, so why give a shit when there are quotas to make? No accountability breeds irresponsibility.

I’ve put it in one of my spare anon Google Drive accounts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XyO5qpghEV9NyiibF3Gjbh1Q29KvIB9h/

Thank you for the response! I’m glad I didn’t trip over myself in my rush to express what I was feeling while it was fresh in my head.

I’m gonna wait a day or two to make sure nobody else has any suggestions before I submit. I’ll post my final version if it changes in any significant way, & confirm submission when I do.

I’m strongly leaning toward including my actual name as an indication of how seriously I take this, but I’m not sure it’s worth the risk - both of tying it to my screenname (which goes back at least a quarter century for me on various sites), and the risk of inviting IRL retribution. I know it’s unlikely to make any real difference in what the assholes running things currently are likely to do, but I’d also rather not give them an easy excuse to be dismissive of my input. Any thoughts on that?