FishFace

Riiight.

I noticed, but I thought they were at least still trying to answer the question…

That doesn’t sound like you’re using it to mean “thereabouts” given that you have the word “thereabouts” in the sentence…

Um

Can you use it in a sentence?

but saying you’re a Star Wars fan is basically meaningless now. And for people who proudly wore that mantle, through eyerolls and ridicule, that’s a genuine loss.

I remember explaining something similar to my partner (not about Star Wars) and about how this isn’t about “gatekeeping” (though it can become gatekeeping) but rather about this loss. I can’t remember exactly what it was about now, but it was some aspect of nerd culture that didn’t exactly become mainstream, but rather morphed to become mainstream.

This is very disappointing

Tracking via cookies means gathering personal data, the exact thing GDPR regulates. GDPR says that data must not be collected except on one of a few lawful bases, one of which is consent. Article 7 clause 4 of the GDPR says:

When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether […] the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

to me this reads like: “consent does not count if you need to agree in order to access a service” and that they imagined consent as being, “yes, you can have my personal data to serve me personalised ads, because I’d rather have personalised ads than generic ones,” which some people (probably not many here!) do think. However, it’s only expressed as “account shall be taken” when determining whether consent was “freely given” and the lawful basis does not specify that consent must be “freely given,” which is where I imagine these kinds of gaps creep in.

Gdpr seemed like it was designed to ban this, but lately companies (especially German ones?) seem to be trying this. I guess it won’t be resolved without a big, slow, expensive court case.

Do you know about how much it cut out?

You take that back!

I never knew about the recut, but presumably it gets rid of a lot of the monster-of-the-week content?

I don’t think any of that was actually bad. It didn’t move the overarching plot along all the time, but that wasn’t the point.

Do you still love me?

Any bubble is just as rational as any other. It’s irrational in that it’s not based on fundamentals, and rational in that it’s based on reasonable belief that the value will go up.

Do you understand on an intellectual (as opposed to instinctive) level which topics are too serious for small talk?

Because if not then start there. If so, then it’s possible to get better by taking your time to reply and think over what you’re about to say so you can back out!

The weather isn’t a topic that will last for long. Maybe you can ask “did you see that crazy rain/wind/hail/whatever” but either the subject is going to change or one of you will segue into “I remember when I was xyz and there was this crazy rain/wind/hail/whatever”.

Conversations are about finding connections and judging what the other person might want to hear. Sometimes there’s no connection though and you’ve just got to bring up something else. Questions are good because they allow the other person to talk :p

Ope

It’s condensation

You can get a caffeine free coke zero and diet coke tho

And right now…

Fuck you I WANT A BIG CHOMP

Why would you want to make horizontal or vertical lines in this way except to make a diagonal one?

Why are the last two lines scaled?