Talked you into it*

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The only good way to spell that platform’s name. Love it!

I like to take an evening stroll down Murder to do some mordor.

Clearly “grrr”

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How come?

You can route traffic without Cloudflare.

You can use CDNs other than Cloudflare’s.

You can use tunneling from other providers.

There are providers of DDOS protection and CAPTCHA other than Cloudflare.

Sure, Cloudflare is probably closest to asingle, integrated solution for the full web delivery stack. It’s also not prohibitively expensive, depending on who needs what.

So the true explanation, as always, is lazyness.

I’m from Europe and it’s unheard of in my area. Although gas stations here work quite differebtly from US ones.

You drive up to the tanking machine. You take the gun and start tanking. No credit card terminal, no nothing on it. Just a display of liters pumped and amount owed.

When you finish, you enter the station, say the tanking plot number and pay that exact amount.

If you run off… I guess they call the police?

I’ve never had it happen to me, but if you were out of cash and all the cards you had failed for some reason you’d merely exchange contact info and pay in a few days via bank transfer, CC, cash or whatever.

If you don’t, you’ll get a court order within a year to pay the amount + some interest + court fees. That’s enough of an incentive for people to pay, I guess.

If you just tank up and leave, you could get booked for theft. Most places have cameras and cars have licence plates, so finding the offender is quite simple.

Therefore, no preauth.

The ban doesn’t need a 100% perfect AI screening protocol to be a success.

Just the fact that AI is banned might appeal to a wide demographic. If the ban is actually enforced, even in just 25% of the most blatant cases, it might be just the push a new platform needs to take off.

There’s four core things you could need for the bathroom:

1. Bleach gel for the toilet bowl. Can also be used on other porcelain surfaces, but not for metal or natural stone (if you don’t want to ruin it).

2. A calc remover to remove calc deposits outside the toilet bowl. Can be substituted with either vinegar or citric acid. Can be used on metal, but do not let it stay on for long - 30 seconds is fine if you clean every 2w to 1mo. Even shorter times if you’re truly regular with your duties.

3. A degreaser for general cleaning (to remove soap residue and other nasty stuff). Can be substituted with dish soap, but is usually a bit more effective so less scrubbing needed.

4. If you get clogged sinks, those declogging solutions are okay. As most people have PVC piping you can just get the cheapest one. If you live in an antique house/apartment with lead piping, you should splurge on the enzyme-based variety, assuming you need it in the first place.

Yeah, that’s not it.

There’s this thing known as consent and purpose. For a GDPR violation, you need to lack either.

When your job has a noticeboard of names, emails and birthdays, they probably got your consent to post it up there. They didn’t get consent to post it onto Facebook.

Yeah, sharing a photo can be a GDPR violation. Because you need to prevent unneccessary processing of data. Like what Facebook does. That’s why most places require you to sign a waiver to allow photos and similar stuff being posted online.

It can be a lot of work. But so is writing a contract. You can’t just do some stuff willy-nilly, and for a good reason.

That being said, the GDPR is mostly unenforced. What it means in practice is “don’t ask, don’t tell”. Meaning, if you keep the info you do have under wraps, you should be fine. Just don’t go whoring your customers’/employees’ info out to your 18 356 “data partners”. Bonus points for having an “Accept All” and “More Options” button, but no “Reject All”.

1st prize for those whose “Reject All” doesn’t encompass “legitimate interest”.

No, a female cockroach is clearly a cockroachie.

All so businesses and companies can increase productivity, reduce staff, and then turn around and increase prices to customers.

As if. The only thing AI is to businesses is a lost bet. And they don’t like losing. So they’re betting even more, hoping some shiny “AGI” starts existing if they throw enough money into wasting other resources onto the AI bandwagon.

Clearly it’s nodes.

Well, NFTs just might be just useless enough.

So odday, then?

It isn’t lazy to have a mastered skill and use it. It’s lazy not taking the time to master it.

That being said, the biggest lazies of them all are the curriculum writers which don’t make teaching future working adults how to use a clock a priority in grade school.

Or should we get rid of spoons or hammers?

I have to say, I’m quite fond of my pneumatic hammer. When will my pneumatic silverware become a thing?

I just can’t be bothered to expend any energy while I’m eating! It’s supposed to give me energy, after all!

I agree.

That being said, there’s a difference between having a disability and just not having had enough practice.

Just having an analogue clock in all rooms and halls of a school is a way to give people the opportunity to get the practice.

In higher grades you can have an analogue clock in front and a digital “cheat” one in the back. If they’re not sure, they can glance at that. And if that cheat clock is only in every other room. Most will learn because it’s easier that way.

When reading the clock comes as a topic of the curriculum in 1st or 2nd grade, having the teacher ask a student to read the time periodically from the classroom clock for a few months will make sure everyone has had at least some opportunities to practice.

Of course, if someone does have a problem bordering on disability, accomodate them. Regardless of whether their parents took the time and money to have it diagnosed or not. But a quarter of a class having it is either bad luck or just bad methodology.

Edit: all this applies to elementary school.

I feel that learning cursive is important.

First you learn how to write ordinary letters. That trains your fine motor skills so you can write them reliably (try writing with your non-dominant yourself hand to see).

What cursive teaches you is how to write quickly. Of course, no one will write in pure, perfect cursive. Most people settle for a style somewhere in between. It teaches you the concept of “you can combine letters together to make you write faster” and “here are a bunch of ways to combine them”. It’s a good thing, Especially if they end up going to college.

Giving them a few more weeks of practice in reading and writing is a great way to avoid them being partially illiterate.

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