Tailgating, weaving through lanes to pass other cars and get to our destination zero seconds faster, fucking around with their phone. General “bad driver” stuff.

Self-defense only when in imminent, life-threatening danger.

This is one of the few journalism-related questions I can’t recall the answer to from college (we didn’t cover tabloid practices much in the journalism electives I took other than some high-level concepts), but I’ll take a stab with an educated guess:

Tabloids typically sell from their headlines, especially ones that make the cover (i.e. the ones you see when you’re standing in line to check out at the grocery store). The more shocking/crazy details they can cram in, the more likely someone will be to buy it. The articles themselves are something of a formality, really. Since the content is often poorly sourced, highly biased, of little substance, or otherwise suspect, and libel laws still apply, there’s generally not a lot of content to fill out 3,000 - 4,000 words that’s safe for them to print.

Edit: Yeah, like another commenter said: It’s the original “click bait”

Mostly just keeps people from bugging me (random conversations in waiting rooms). Unfortunately, doesn’t seem to work when waiting in queues. Occasionally will be in a conference room working and co-workers will come in to work out their drama and not even realize I’ve been there the whole time. Petty stuff like that lol.

I’m practically invisible. Now that I’ve settled into it and don’t really desire/crave attention, it’s nice to just fade into the background.

It’s like “Wisconsin Roulette” for me, and I definitely pick my battles because I do love cheese. Sometimes I can eat a whole plate of mozzarella sticks and be (relatively) fine, other times a sprinkle of Parmesan will double me over in pain. The dairy free cheese is only like 30 cents more than the regular, so I just stick with that to be safe.

I have to use the dairy-free cheese (lactose intolerant), so perhaps it doesn’t bind it together as well? I do know I used to be a lot better about not ruining it during the flip lol

That basically describes 9 out of 10 times I try to make an omelette. I call the failed attempt “scrambled eggs with benefits” and they’re usually just as good as or better than the omelette would have been.

I don’t remember what publisher made the ones we inherited from grandma. I recognize World Book, but I can’t say that’s what they were. I’m not sure if those old encyclopedias are still floating around somewhere in the family or if whoever had them last finally got rid of them.

A lot of the info in them was definitely still solid, agree.

I grew up in the 90s, so we had Encarta for most of the time I needed an encyclopedia.

It also wasn’t uncommon to have a (partial) set of encyclopedias at home. You could buy them, one or more volumes at a time, over the phone or occasionally from door-to-door salespeople. We also had an old set from the 60s that we inherited from my grandmother.

El Blue del Ping Pong has a mild effect like that (with actual ping-pong balls, too).

Depends on their history.

Sometimes it’s a language-barrier issue, so they’re not necessarily meaning to be combative. Other times, as confirmed by looking back at their older submissions, they’re just combative and toxic. In the latter case, I block and move on.

Same. I totally get that the victim was a real horse’s ass (to put it very mildly) and about as unsympathetic as they come, but the response here has just been beyond sickening. Let’s just say my “block” button has been quite busy the last couple days.

I liked most of it, TBH.

S3 was kind of weak for me, but it wasn’t terrible. The finales, though, ugh!

I just started the last season of it yesterday.

That’s a stupid question! (Hopefully my display name and or avatar show up to put that into context)

But my hot take is that I actually liked the second season of Discovery that everyone else on the planet seems to hate.

Eventually, “our” pretty much always becomes “my”.

Why? I’m not clear, but power corrupts regardless of the political system surrounding it (e.g. look at pretty much any HOA).

Good deal!

Most amps expect line-level audio anyway, so you should be fine. I’m surprised the already amplified “headphone out” into the amp didn’t sound horrible.

I’m pretty happy with Aegis. AFAIK, it doesn’t work with any of the “push” style methods (Duo, MS Auth, etc), but I don’t care for those anyway. Easy to backup/restore, the backups are encrypted, you can lock the app behind a password/PIN and/or biometric lock, and it’s open source.