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I have this card.

I’m an immigrant to the US by way of marriage. When I moved here we opened an account at chase where my now wife banks - a joint for us both and one for me.

When faced with having three near identical blue cards I asked if there was any option other than blue

Imagine my face when I heard possibly the most American phrase I’ve ever heard: “You can have the brand colors, or Disney”

• windows

• because it was already installed

6! hours? An entire month?

yes, I was using the famous example that broke the Fin De Ciele -era snobbery about art and the distinction between artist and artisan to make a point.

my point is that you can’t define it. So you say “should posts about the wheel be included?”

and the answer is if you exclude all things about wheels where do you draw the line? someone creates a new type of ball bearing that revolutionizes manufacturing, but thats not allowed because it’s a wheel? Someone uses a new archeological discovery about an ancient device to invent a modern one? No posts about cars, trains etc? No posts about waterwheel generated activity?

It becomes impossible to police.

So news of an online store doing shady shit constitutes as “tech news” because they run a web site?

So writing “R MUTT 1917” on a urinal and putting it in an art gallery constitutes as “art” just because they said it is?

etc etc

I was looking for this. every single time I type something on my phone I wish I had a blackberry still

they… do? it’s like the “what is art” debate. the answer is “whatever you want it to mean in that moment and it can be different in the next moment”

anything including and beyond hitting a nut with a rock to open it

I used a site that let’s you follow the same accounts on Masto as you did on Twitter.

if it annoys you to worship him they’ll do it twice as hard.

i signed up at mba.com and it wouldn’t let me use a password because it contained a semicolon which wasn’t on the approved list of special characters, and then - get this - because I tried too many times to create a password - locked me out because I had “too many failed attempts”

well my hope is it pushes investment back.into leisure and third space usage, to encourage people back into cities for fun reasons rather than just to operate a keyboard which I can do from anywhere

source? even before WFH, even before the internet it’s just common sense that if I need something from the Phillippines office or the London office or the California office while I’m in New York it’s much more efficient to call them than it is for me to get on a plane and go there.

hashtag-not-an-engineer-but The vast majority of products you can just pull the LED. Don’t resolder, just pull it out. If it goes badly, you can either just put it back, or replace with a "non-LE-"diode of the same spec.

literally the origin of the term - that bugs (literally) used to get into computers and mess them up

The fax machine actually had a massive impact on society and is much older than you think (newer than the telegram, older than the telephone, and in use during Abraham Lincolns life time).

Just because it’s usefulness had declined in the prior 10 years to him making that statement, doesn’t mean it didn’t affect the economy.

In the year 2100 or 2200 the internet as we know it may have been superceded by methodologies we can’t even comprehend right now.