I don’t know of such a community, but I’ll point you in the direction of conditional probability.

Also:

Six Sigma “graduates”

Lol fair description

I’m a dude, he’s a dude, she’s a dude, we’re all dudes, hey

Kinda hope people find out after fucking around so much

I don’t think so.

But if it’s like any other norm-breaking violation we’ve seen him make, he will do it anyway, there will be legal challenges, they will ultimately be fruitless, he will suffer no consequences, and everyone will go along with it.

Savor these headlines now. We probably won’t see any more like them for a long time.

Some of the companies involved that are mentioned in the article:

• Service providers (Comcast, Charter, Cox)
• Entertainment (Disney, AMC, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery
• Those connected to advertising (Google, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Vizio, the NFL)
• Home security (ADT)

As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that’d mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don’t care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the “free” button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.

Klan.

I don’t care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.

I’m just guessing here, but I imagine it’s for “marketing purposes”. People sometimes (perhaps often) move around without changing their phone number, so area code alone wouldn’t be enough to pinpoint where you live.

Knowing where you live probably helps with micro-targeting ads.

Red Bull commercials confused me so much in my younger years. Obviously it can’t make you fly, so what does it do?

Even into my adult years, I’ve found myself avoiding energy drinks, not just because they usually taste awful, but also because they trigger this subconscious feeling that they’re trying to scam me.

I guess cuz it sounds enough like the much more common saying “as the crow flies”.

I have also never heard it used to describe direction, only distance.

I hate to post because I have loved and trusted Wikipedia for years, but the fact that there are folks out there who equally trust what AI tools generate just baffles me.

A bus pass maybe, that way you can just get on and not have to fumble around paying the fare when you board.

Already lots of great answers, but I’ll add a note about intentional barriers to exit.

Many services tend to make it easy to sign up and comparably more difficult to quit. So while people always can leave and take their business elsewhere, they might not have the motivation to do it. I imagine each additional click in a form deters more and more people. OP mentioned being unmotivated, and these barriers play into that.

It’s like wandering around in Ikea. You could use a map and chart out the fastest route to find what you need and get out. But it’s so much easier to follow the little path they draw out on the floor and look at everything, which makes you way more likely to impulsively buy something extra.

As far as I know, I have 2 main allergies: pollen and metals (some metals, not sure which exactly).

Pollen

• It feels like my nose is a leaky faucet. It will run and run and I’ll have sneezing fits for hours. If I blow my nose, it makes the inside feel super-dry and itchy, which just kicks off more running and sneezing. So it basically feels pointless to blow my nose at all, and I usually settle for sniffling instead. But if I do that too much, I start getting mini-sinus headaches.
• Flare-ups. Sometimes I’ll see the plants that trigger it and I’ll start sneezing within 10-20 minutes. Other times I’ll go outside and it’ll start out of nowhere. It’ll last for hours.
• Meds do not seem to help at all. Maybe they shorten what would be a 6-hour episode into a 3-hour episode but who tf knows. I have yet to find anything that kicks in faster than a couple hours after use.

Metals

• I break out in a highly localized rash. It’s red, bumpy, and itches like mosquito bites.
• Flare-ups after prolonged contact (several hours) with a metal. It’ll last anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days.
• No meds. It’s pretty easy to ignore when it flares up, and it’s easy enough to avoid exposure.

My sense is it’s getting at “what’s an overated candy flavor”

Imagine the incentives tho. It’s free real estate, but how would they sell it to advertisers? “Here’s some ad space, but we work really hard to make sure users see it as rarely as possible.”

But if they do manage to sell it, the dev team then has this wacky incentive to trigger BSODs often enough to hit revenue targets, but rarely enough that they don’t drive away their user base. As another commenter put it, cynical and absurd, but… I mean, there’s a universe where it could happen… hopefully it’s not this one.

I am sort of in this position as well. The day-to-day can get way too busy at times, so I get burned out fairly often, but I’m still sticking around. I’m loyal to the team like you said, but there’s a variety of other reasons as well. I appreciate the mission, it’s a good fit for my skills, I have a decent amount of flexibility in my schedule, and on and on. Also… I really hate looking for jobs. So I’ll probably put that off for as long as I can.

Any job will have its mix of pros and cons. You have to make a call based on what matters to you.

Any episode of Ancient Aliens.

Gosh I totally feel that. Maybe something is going around.

I got to spend some time with my big sister. We had tea and talked awhile, then played Smash Bros. She apparently loves to spam Falcon Punch, so I got to see a lot of very entertaining slo-mo finishing blows. Like p-p-p-PAWWunchhh…

Good question, I feel slightly better now.