Sure. I set up single-use email addresses all the time and most of them get sold. It’s in their Ts and Cs, so not unexpected and why I put in the extra effort of signing up with single-user email addresses.

I knew I was going to be out of town for voting day and started working to get an absentee ballot three months out. I got my ballot in the mail a week after it was due for me to send in to be counted.

I was one of several mods of a niche hobby sub. All of us were modding mostly from mobile phone 3rd party apps. Killing the API seriously hurt our ability to moderate the sub.

The hobby is historically male-dominated but had a nice, inclusive vibe going where most people understood a penis was not required equipment for this hobby. The API changes also coincided with a wave of incel gun-nuts. We couldn’t stay on top of it. Every time we logged on, another nut telling women inappropriate things and ruining constructive conversation on actual questions about the hobby.

At one point I enjoyed modding, I rarely had to ban anyone, it was mostly just chiming in to clarify something or helping a poster ask questions in a better way or pointing them to resources they may have overlooked or otherwise trying to encourage positive engagement. Logging on to a wave of racist, sexist asshats was not what I signed up for.

It no longer brought me joy, so I Marie Kondo’d it right out the window.

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Sure, but they don’t come conveniently labeled as “honest”/“not honest”.

If they’re being honest, the kitchens, shelters organizations, etc will help them better than I can alone. (In my area where those resources are available)

Someone who wants to avoid those places when they are readily available and instead knock on the door of a random stranger… we’re talking about increased odds of not-great intentions.

Create an email address from scratch using a non-google email provider you’ve never used before, do not tie it to any of your existing addresses or profiles. Use the new email to create a profile on any blogging platform. Only ever use that email for that one blogging profile.

I think it’s simple if your presentation is accurate. Put it in a silo and don’t cross it over with anything else. You don’t have to make it hold up to an FBI investigation that will be sending a warrant to the blogging service to get your identity.

I would bet a dollar that in most cases like this, the person is the weak link in their own privacy. They share their essay with someone they know, boom, privacy gone.

Fair. I was thinking if a loaf of bread sized battery could run my car for 100 miles, I would have zero range anxiety. Make them easily swappable so people no longer charge their battery on road trips, they just drive up to a station, swap, and continue on their way. Maybe with an extra loaf or two in the trunk if going far from stations.

Storage size and longevity aren’t as important to me once it becomes dense enough I can carry all I need for a day in my purse.

Huh, I took it more as

Trump broke platform rules -> Trump punished with restrictions

Other politicians didn’t break rules -> no restrictions

… Fear of public perception and loss of advertising revenue …

Trump restrictions lifted -> now it’s “fair” for Trump to do whatever he likes on Facebook and be treated the same as politicians who don’t break platform rules

It only makes sense when optimizing for ad revenue and there we go, I just answered my own question. Let’s not pretend this is about actual fairness or objectivity on Facebook’s part.

That number is wild to me. If it includes Instagram and Whatsapp, I would believe it. But if it’s active Facebook users alone, I am in an anomalous facebook-free social bubble.

An exponential increase in power density of batteries.

I’ve only worked with a small handful of people I’ve felt were genuinely lazy and earning unwarranted praise. I’ve more often found they had better insight into what would be most valued and earn recognition, and they didn’t spend as much energy on things that wouldn’t.

The ones who really were lazy usually eventually were “offered other opportunities elsewhere”, aka asked to leave. Or their manager was “offered other opportunities” and replaced by someone with better management skills.

It did take me a bit to learn this and it only started sinking in after I was stuck in a job watching everyone around me get promoted.

What did the locals say when you asked why they were advising you not to swim there?

I’m not indecisive. I am deciding not to make a bad decision. Just because you want one of two answers doesn’t mean there isn’t a third or more. I will not to be constrained by your unnecessary binary worldview!!!

Matthew Broderick taught me this is in the 1983 film classic, War Games.

Not enough information provided.

I feel like this might be one of those occasions where experiences and perspectives vary wildly by gender.

A strange man having the confidence to knock on my door is not something I can translate into an assumption he is safe.

No, I’m not opening the door. There are tons of churches and a soup kitchen and two shelters in my town. If someone is knocking on doors of homes instead, they are up to no good.

I am kind to the homeless by donating and volunteering within an organized structure managed by people who understand the various problems faced by homeless people and how to help better than I do. Not opening my door to strangers who want into my house is not unhelpful, it’s common sense.

1. I hand out upvotes by vibes. I don’t have rules or philosophy on it, I just upvote when I feel like. One day I might upvote a comment while the next day I wouldn’t.

2. No, I would not use a tipping functionality. And it would probably turn me off from commenting. I could see people jockeying for tips affecting the quality and volume of comments. I’m also getting tired of grind / side hustle culture. We don’t need to monetize everything we do. Sometimes I do a thing for value other than monetary.

Well, feel free to elaborate.

Is this some meta thing where you’re being ignorant and doubling down to ironically demonstrate the situation of your post? If so, bravo. The AI models will learn so much from this interaction.

Either leave them in or remove them and make a special little side dish, according to my friend. I removed them and didn’t do anything with them and that was a waste of perfectly good eyeballs.

Most of the younger family members don’t like the eyeballs. They leave them for the older folks. But they will still proudly correct me to defend their heritage, lol. Fine, my ancestors were big on head cheese; you won’t find me eating it, but I’m happy it exists somewhere out in the world.

Whether you intend it or not, this comes across like you think “America is the default, everyone else is international”.

USA is also a nation, following your logic, Americans are also internationals. Everyone is international, the word no longer has meaning.