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"The kids are alright" does not mean that the world where the kids live is alright, it means that the kids are alright. 😅

"A friend and I are..."

My partner disables autocorrect too, so reading those messages is a bit like a Rorschach test.

It's a form of lying, but with a specific meaning.

Like how the 9th (or 8th, depending on how you're counting) Commandment says to not bear false witness. That doesn't mean that people following an Abrahamic faith cannot lie... just that they can't lie in that one specific way.

Parallel construction is a way to present evidence illegally obtained by coming up with a plausible-seeming other way it was found.

So, rather than saying "we illegally stopped and searched the defendant" they'll get an "informant" (sometimes paid, sometimes coerced) to swear that they tipped them off beforehand.

The second best-selling console of all time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

I cannot make certain teams at my work give a shit about known security vulnerabilities in libraries they use, since they don't trip our internal scanners. People have their own priorities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because you kept using the same hole for everything? 🤔

Public transportation seemed to work well in Brussels, Paris, Prague, Copenhagen, and even Edinburgh. Just thinking of the last few cities I was in outside of the Netherlands (leaving out the USA, which is obviously a nightmare for transportation of all kinds). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In Europe:

In the US:

Not exactly the same years, of course, and comparing data sets is tricky.

I don't think that we see the same increase in pedestrian fatalities in other countries though, which do have smart phones but do not have massive personal trucks.