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In case Google incorrectly identifies someone as under 18, users can submit a photo of their government ID or a selfie to verify their age.

So Google is going to incorrectly identify damn near everyone as a minor now, right?

Most companies have been taking it on the chin for now: eating the cost of the tariffs and taking a reduced profit to maintain prices and help foster consumer confidence while they wait and see how all the tariff negotiations actually play out.

With regards to the original question, inflation is measured across all consumer purchasing. So prices on goods (groceries, cars, computing hardware, etc) can increase significantly, but if the price on services (Netflix, restaurants, laundromats, etc) stays relatively flat, inflation ends up looking better than it feels.

Do we think these payment processors are running their own call centers? Seems more likely that they're contracting the work out, and those firms just aren't going to get their contracts renewed.

So don't get tattoos of things you like. There's plenty of reasons to get tattoos beyond just "beautiful expression."

I know a guy who got his wife's phone number tattooed on his foot, just in case he ever doesn't have his phone on him.

My brother got "Ouch" on the inside of his lip because it was funny.

My wife has multiple tattoos of bullshit flash because the artist offered to do them for free and she likes the way getting a tattoo feels.

If you want a tattoo, just get a tattoo. If you truly end up hating it down the road, plenty of artists specialize in cover-ups.

John Darnielle is my must-read list. Wolf in White Van was absolutely captivating to me when it came out. I was late reading Universal Harvester, but when I finally did, it literally made me gasp out loud at some of the most horror. And so I decided to lock in and never miss a new drop again. His last book was a day-one buy that I loved, and now I'm just waiting for him to announce something else.

I'm almost forty and regularly hosted parties like this all through high school. So mileage must vary.

I've literally had my home broken into and stuff stolen from it. It was the one time in my life that I ever called the police. They trampled through my place, made a mess and broke more things, and then decided I was reporting a suspicious amount of electronics and accused me of trying to do some kind of insurance fraud.

Fuck cops.

Hard disagree on the jump button. That thing has fundamentally altered how I play so heavily that I struggle going back to Dark Souls games.

NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.

I was paraphrasing both OP and yourself to create a farce, yes. Because farces are funny. It was a joke, not a clever and cutting rhetorical maneuver.

So, yeah, sucks a little that you took it so personally, but I do feel pretty good about it.

"I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved."

"This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you're not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!"

I've definitely had English essays that were like, "read the short story presented below and then explain how the author used literary devices to express their purpose."