A username field isn’t for your real name, it’s for a username and it has always been for that. Stop being intentionally obtuse.

What’s to stop them from using all of the required user fields and then running a background fingerprinting check and then using that fingerprint every single time you visit a site? It doesn’t have to be your real date of birth. What matters is that it’s a consistent info for your user account so that they can identify who you are. Obviously there are other ways to fingerprint a user, but this just makes it easier to do so, and it’s another unnecessary datapoint for “them” to use.

People are defending this with such fervor, too, that it really makes a person doubt whether they’re even arguing against actual humans. Like, I can see why people would be against general change or against privacy invasion, but why would someone care so much about defending a date of birth field?

Time is exactly why a lot of people in America choose to drive. Public transit practically doesn’t exist, or would take two hours to go about a 30 minute drive bleeding away all your time. I just checked, and there’s not even a bus that runs close to when I go in. It costs $4 and over two hours. I’d have to arrive more than six hours early to take the bus. And that’s with the bus stop, literally in the parking lot of the business.

America needs to decuple their public transportation spending for about a decade just for us to catch up with the developed world.

Motor Bunny* don’t ask how I know…

It sounds like this post is about pedestrians not paying attention and walking into traffic, though. It doesn’t matter if they’re driving too fast, if someone’s not paying attention and walks out in front of a bus…

I think you’re making a different but equally valid argument.

If this was true, then they would have no problem with agreeing to paying us $50 mil each in the event of a data breach, since it could never happen, right?

You shouldn’t be letting your children on those kinds of sites.

They might actually enjoy those. I found best effect by using something else that they might consider diminutive. Kiddo, sport, Buck, “little man”. If they get too upset, you can always pass it off as, “oh, sorry. That’s what I call my sibling/kid/nephew” etc. Which is the same bullshit reasoning they tend to give us “oh sorry, it’s just how you look though.”

Those arms might not be able to write about existential crises, but they certainly have them, trust me. Watching an arm stop loading for 30 seconds sitting there mid motion, then continue about its day, it almost makes wonder if we should be giving these things half hour breaks along with everyone else.

Imagine some idiot drives away with the nozzle still in and the pump turns into a litteral fire shower after many errant spark.

I bought like, 50 of these to give out at work and people actually use them. I’ll tell you what, it’s a hell of a mental boost when people remember they have them after seeing me and move the sliders back up.