Is LinkedIn even useful to you?

Not particularly, but job hunting is rough atm and being verified seemed like it might help with some prospects.

Microsoft SwiftKey on my phone. I’ve been using it since before it was acquired by Microsoft. It is an incredible keyboard and after using it for years, I am very fast on it. I ditched it for about 6 months last year for the FOSS alternative HeliBoard, but it negatively impacted my typing speed so much that I recently gave up and reverted to SwiftKey.

Google Maps also on my phone, because it works really well compared to the alternatives I’ve tried. I’ve used (and contributed to) OSM, but it’s just not a drop-in replacement for Google Maps yet.

I “verified my identity” on LinkedIn a while back because I’m job hunting.

You could also go with Blue’s Clues, cause they can hop not just into books, but also pictures, paintings, and each others’ dreams/reveries.

Sounds like your beef is less with actual “social justice” and more with bad actors co-opting the movement for their frivolous, performative virtue signalling

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Yes, but only in one direction. If I choose to remember an embarrassing memory I can increase my body temperature by a few degrees instantly. Like a really underwhelming version of the Human Torch.

I figured you were just being funny, but I’m feeling talkative today, lol

People always say this on stories about “obvious” findings, but it’s important to have verifiable studies to cite in arguments for policy, law, etc. It’s kinda sad that it’s needed, but formal investigations are a big step up from just saying, “I’m pretty sure this technology is bullshit.”

I don’t need a formal study to tell me that drinking 12 cans of soda a day is bad for my health. But a study that’s been replicated by multiple independent groups makes it way easier to argue to a committee.

I’m not sure I understand the wisdom here. It comes off as “we live in a society”-esque. And doesn’t really acknowledge just how many people protested the Vietnam war.

“Sure, I murdered those people, but aren’t all of the complacent, disaffected, yet broadly powerless masses equally responsible for their nation’s unjust acts of military violence? We’re not so different, you and I.”