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It turns out the only ability anyone really needs is the ability to have a hefty rack!

I'm not sure if this is part of the "setting aside" stuff, but I'd ask why age needs to be verified and not simply stated.

I'm the admin on this device, I say I'm 50, why does the website need to check some ID to prove I'm 50? They trust what I reported, and if I lied to them that's on me. It shouldn't be the websites job to validate.

For sure. If we wanted to protect kids with no intrusion we'd just make an HTTP header that was "user age" and then let the sites decide what to show and what to block. Porn sites don't want to show dicks to 6 year olds, it'd be 10 seconds to make an nginx rule that says "if user age < 18, show static error page".

And that's it, easy peasy. If we wanted to, at that point we could start suing individual sites that choose not to use that information in order to get compliance, but probably we don't need to, since it's pretty easy to support and like I said, there's no money in showing these things to kids anyway.

But that's not what it's about.

That game was pretty great. Not long, not challenging, but it's not trying to be. Great atmosphere, fun engagement.

Right, but is it a language learning app? Or is it a "play games with aggressive owl" app with a language learning theme? Because if after 365 straight days of playing games with owl you cannot use the language you've been "learning" to communicate, then you aren't learning a language. And if you're not learning the language, then what are you doing with the owl?

Right, except OP and the research suggests it's not effective, even though it feels like you're doing it. So yes, 10 minutes of walking a day is interior to an hour of HIIT, obviously. And yes 10 minutes of walking a day is better than not walking in a day, for your health. But no matter how many days in a row you slowly walk 10 minutes, you'll never be able to run a marathon. It just doesn't do that.

So if everyone's goal with Duolingo was to vaguely know some words in a language they can't communicate in, and it was just a brain exercise like a crossword, then sure. No harm done.

But that's not most people's goal, and what the research shows is that for all the time people spend doing it, they could have spent that time doing something else and actually made progress towards their goals.

I think it was Hank Azaria. Or at least I've seen some clip of him talking about how a lot of his characters start as "bad impressions" of famous people.

Modern choice, only one season so far with another coming of unknown quality, but I liked Murderbot, personally. Sci Fi, dark comedy, with a dash of wholesome. I liked it!

I used glaxnimate quite a bit like 3 years ago for some videos I was making, and it was capable but rough in terms of UX. But it worked.

So good for them! And I hope it's gotten better since then, because it certainly had the room 😛

Oh man, I hope I was wrong about this whole bill being an attack on Muslims and that these banned symbols represent a diversity of religions!

Mariem Gharnougui was an educator at a school-run daycare in the Laurentians, but she lost her job in February after refusing to remove her hijab.

Awww shucks. Better luck next time...

"Hmmm, I'm going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting"

Sure, but we need some kind of deals with somebody, and the states has gone back on several deals in the past year, so it'd be hard to be less reliable at this point.