So that means everyone is either bi or ace?

It’s probably more likely that straight people don’t even exist. Everyone is a little bit gay.

But as an American we’re free to decide which tax company is going to take our money, and also free to not have an accounting degree and mess up some math and then get audited. You can’t put a price on freedom. /s

You would think that’d be the case… The tax system doesn’t include the filing cost, private companies charge the fees and lobby the IRS to intentionally not make the process simple and free for Americans.

Further reading: https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap

Amazing, yeah, that’s my hesitation with switching and investing time, to get charged at the checkout.

Was it really $15.99 or is the marketing page hiding hidden costs for some situations (assuming you don’t need support or audit defense).

No need, just use Forgot Password for every login. No password manager needed /s

I can imagine that the sites want to validate that you still have access to the email associated with the account, and asking people to check their settings is annoying, and they know no one will do it. I can also imagine that sites want to know as much about you as possible, don’t want you to be using burner email addresses, and are probably selling the fact that your email address can still receive email to marketing firms who compile that info.

Some more info on the hack and impact: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

Their employees had Intune running on their personal phones and computers which got wiped. Great reminder to never mix work and personal devices.

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder in a video game then climbing a seemingly endless ladder and a random song playing.

NEVER EVER INSTALL INTUNE ON YOUR PERSONAL DEVICE!!!

A bunch of people today had their phones wiped and eSIM deleted from their personal phones because they hooked it up to their corporate intune, which got hacked: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

Is this incel humor? Is it supposed to be funny?

Assuming the Grandpa watches Fox News / OAN / Newsmax, they’ve sold him the lie that immigrants are taking their jobs and going to ruin the middle class, meanwhile it’s they who are having the middle class vote against their interests, gutting healthcare, breaking up families, dissuading workers to unionize, etc. Basically this politically cartoon:

You’ll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE

Is all the heat we get from the sun in the form of infrared light, and if so, wouldn’t we loose all of that if the sun turned into a black hole? Night all the time would be fine, but loosing warm temperatures would not be fun.

Alcohol / tobacco / firearms can’t be digitally shared or reproduced. Imagine a high school with a mix of 14 - 18 year olds. If an 18 year old can get a valid code without hassle, they can share it with their friends who are in the same class, but are still 17. Or maybe they’ll share it with a sibling who is 16. What’s to stop it spreading from there? It will probably take just an hour for half of the school to get access to the one code. If the system assumes that kids won’t directly or indirectly share their codes with one another, then the system doesn’t understand teenage behavior and is flawed.

Agreed, and for every site which would comply with these rules, there are 10-100 which won’t and are not able to be controlled in the jurisdiction. Teenagers will find a way to get around restrictions, and will go to sites which are less regulated, and possibly not have the controls in place to flag grooming interactions, promoting self harm, etc.

Were you ever a teenager? This would be abused immediately, unless the codes were single use, and in that case it’s a non-starter.

This is the way. I think this is what Apple is finally implementing, but since they took too long to do so, governments have been passing laws which require privacy invasive measures that fill the void. Hard to say if that will reverse itself now that there’s a whole age-verification industry that popped up. Actually it’s unclear to me if the age-verification industry manufactured a problem to push their solution?

Had Apple implemented this in their Parental Controls setting, it would have avoided the government intervention and shady age-verification companies from popping up.

Tell that to the current maintainers of chardet: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Spoiler: They’ve heard it, they don’t care