Under. So the mustard is less likely to glop onto your shirt

There are tv plot points about employers doing a background check, finding the wrong details, so not hiring someone. In real life I hope they would take a few steps to confirm

Have you searched for the name outside your family line? I know you said misspelling but my last name is rare because it was made up by immigration on Ellis Island: they couldn’t understand my ancestor so decided “close enough”. Same thing as a rare misspelling.

Before the internet, we knew of one unrelated person with the same last name but only because he was he was geographically close enough to be in a neighboring phone book. When someone took my Gmail (identical first initial, last name) it was a relative. Now with the internet and person search we’ve found a handful, but only a handful

No, I hope I’d have the self-confidence to own it.

• I went to school with a kid named “dick”. Not Richard or rich, but he insisted on “dick”. He was the first to joke about his name and he laughed about it. I don’t know how he truly felt but everyone loves the comedian, and even bullies couldn’t make fun of him
• I just got a new coworker with the same name as a famous comedian, and same deal. His intro speech started with “not that one”, and he can quote movie lines with the best of us. Actually I haven’t worked with him so know nothing else about him. I remember his name and that he has a good sense of humor
• my name Isn’t at all common but there’s a professor in Chicago with the same name, who has authored a bunch of text books. Does it count that I sometimes joke about my “alternate life”?

Reminds me I need to reset mine again. Big mistake to buy a “smart” air filter. I thought I was getting remote monitoring of air quality data, but I have something that makes too many assumptions about your home network so doesn’t work on mine, support that gave up, and a purifier that needs to be reset every couple weeks

It’s not the particular surface that people are concerned about, but more frequent cleaning of that surface might reduce overall dust settling everywhere

Massachusetts is promising benefits in full by Saturday.

…. It’s unclear how since previously they said there wasn’t enough slack in the state budget and they didn’t say where the money would come from. They can’t possibly trust the federal govt so idk

The guy planning to build the Epstein Ballroom on a government building with mysterious donors

Huh, that’s actually reasonably affordable. Looks like $11k-$20k in a brief search. Of course that’s pretty old and these are all high mileage…… but how well do they hold up? How expensive are they to maintain?

My daily driver is an EV, but I always wanted a fun car. I could be that guy in the meme

Even today there are longer term advantages to getting married. At least women now have economic alternatives so aren’t forced into it, but … you still have things like survivor benefits and inheritance rules that would make a huge difference later in life.

—- For example spousal benefits in social security

• https://www.ssa.gov/oact/quickcalc/spouse.html
• a couple generations ago, women were unlikely to have a career where they’d earn any appreciable social security benefits. But assuming the rule was similar back then, a woman could collect based on their spouses or even ex’s earnings
• my parents generation was very traditional, but my mom faced getting a job later in life with no work experience after my father passed. However as a married woman she collected survivorship benefits then and spousal benefits now, where she had very few options
• my ex has her own career and is doing ok, but when the time comes will likely get more from social security based on my income than her own. This is directly from being married long enough and even though we no longer are

That would be the greatest day, when comedians mostly do jokes about dems. Imagine punch lines like “and the dem control all three branches”. Or we just love racist jokes, let’s do one about “the first dark skinned president since Obama, har har har”. And get a load of this one, it’s starts with appointing cabinet members for their expertise! What a maroon! And we’ll never get enough of “and then they passed universal healthcare and saved the environment”! LoL

It can’t be that simple since you’d always be identifiable to anyone who knows the trick

I wonder if there’s a technical limitation to the number of extensions. If a number can have six or seven digit extensions perhaps someone could allocate those randomly, with forwarding to your real number

Not so bad when you think about it …… Ring’s subscription isn’t too expensive and it gives you cloud storage and remote access. Bring on the hatred but I’ve found it one of the few worthwhile subscriptions

Personally I’m frustrated with always having to give a working phone number to accounts.

I have no idea if I’ve been at all successful in poisoning my data but all my accounts use unique generated emails in addition to generated passwords and fake profile info. It’s just habit now.

However all too often the one piece of real data I have to give is my phone number, and that would be really useful to cross-link all my accounts for data brokers building a dossier on me.

I have hundreds of fake emails but can create at most a couple phone numbers

It is but only if you are targeted. I completely disagree with people who say it’s insecure because most attacks are remote and in bulk. Which your password they can login from any browser but are stopped by the SMS code.

For the SMS code they can use mostly automated social engineering to trick a certain percentage into giving it up.

However while A SIM attack may be easy enough for a targeted individual, I don’t think it scales: they have to do work that only helps with one user. It’s too “expensive” compared to automated social engineering against a million vulnerable users

Banks are the web sites most likely to reject a generated password from my password generator

Yeah, I also tried searching and rash came up as at least the same possibility

It’s not just automatics anymore, but also

• CVTs, especially forneconoboxes that used to be manual
• electronic shifters, sort of automatic
• automatic, with more and more gears
• EVs don’t need a transmission

The thing is there’s no longer much of a price difference and manual is no longer the efficient choice

Yeah I finally went over to the dark side because of bostons horrendous stop and go traffic

Of course I’d use transit whenever I could. However I lived to the east and had to drive through Boston to get home from anywhere else. There were times when it took hours to drive just a couple miles: I couldn’t deal with manual transmission for that

Chevy Chevette. This may have been one of the worst cars built, take minutes to get up to speed and over-rev cruising in the highway, but it was also a tank that lived through 6 people learning to drive a stick and probably close to two decades.

It was also really easy to work on, but

• when I replaced the springs I found them light enough to compress by hand
• when my brother replaced the clutch he said it’s the only car he saw where the transmission was light enough to hold one handed while replacing