I do have a Thunderbolt docking station connected, it's never really occurred to me that that might be the culprit.

Is there any way to prevent this with the docking station, beyond always turning the machine on while it's either connected or disconnected?

They've got other ways.

For example, on one of my laptops about half the time I'm powering it up, it would require me to enter my recovery key. Which would require me to use my phone, log into their service, then copy a 48 character key from my phone to my laptop. It's a complete and total pain in the ass, but if I want my drive encrypted, I have to leave it enabled. Thanks, Microsoft.

I live in the suburbs (Orange County, CA - Not the really rich part, either), and have a 5GB fiber option available at my home for less than $250/month. We also have 2 other fiber providers available, one "only" offers 2GB, the other a lowly 1GB synchronous connection.

So yeah, a lot of people either have access to this capacity now, or will in a short time.

Not to mention the benefits of intranet traffic, like if you have a media server or file server on your home network.

$160 million, and they couldn't spring the $25 to throw an air tag in it?

HBO has such a great catalog of older shows, many of which aren't available on their streaming service. So back to piracy it is then. And at that point, why pay for the service if I'm pirating their stuff already? I'll take that subscription money that I'm saving and put it towards a VPN.

And on a side note, these companies keep dropping their shows for tax breaks. So in exchange for those tax breaks, why not make the shows that they're dropping public domain? We're all subsidizing them at that point, but currently getting nothing for it.

I recently lost a Pirelli Centurato, which is a roughly $80 tire, about 20 miles into its first ride. :(

I just ask "What are we watching today?" Then stand right over their shoulder intently watching with them. They usually put it away pretty quickly.

This sounds like a great deal for the next Heaven's Gate cult.

"I personally selected these images of violence and power to represent myself. How dare you judge me by the things I chose to project to people!" Dude. If you don't want people to think your a violent showboater, don't pin images like that on your sleeve. You've said that you think it's

To paraphrase Maya Angelou: when someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

What you are talking about is not superficial image stuff. It is a choice you've made about representing yourself to strangers on the street. It's easily removed by you if you don't want people leaping to conclusions. I don't have any bumper stickers (except for my kids' elementary school sticker) on my Honda CRV. What stereotypes to people draw from that? That I have children. End of conclusions.

You've more or less said here that you believe that you are confident that you can stand up for your views. But really you just keep coming back to "bullies are only bullies based on their interactions" but you aren't understanding that the way you present yourself in society is in fact an interaction itself. Telegraphing association with a group known for higher rates of aggravated assault and domestic violence is one way to intimidate people and basically just bully them at a distance.

Well, if youâ(TM)re self-identifying as a bully and have all the signs of being a bully and a little flock of nerds hiding under your wing for protection from other bullies, youâ(TM)re still a bully. And no, I would not want to room with you, because youâ(TM)d be insufferable. Could I debate you about anything? Sure. Do I want to? No.

No, that's not what that translates to at all. It means that when one person or a group of people is aggressive and threatening, other people really would rather not interact with them. So when you slap a Punisher decal and a bunch of pro-gun stickers on the back of your Ford F-250 modified to roll coal, no body wants to talk to you about what kind of an idiot you are because it's just not pleasant. Anonymously, they'd be more likely to confront your ideas because of the lack of threatening posture. But it has nothing to do with a confidence in standing up for ideas. It has a lot to do with just generally not wanting to have to engage in that level of conflict. I had a guy threaten to kill me and my family because I had the audacity to suggest that trans people were just people. I can stand there all day and debate the merits of his ideas, but when lives are threatened then it's not really a debate anymore. It is, at that point, an interaction that is designed to make me hesitant to engage with people like him in the future. He doesn't want an exchange of ideas. So all his general war paint goes into a mental bucket of "don't engage if you don't have to."

I wouldn't dorm with him in college. Not because I am unconfident in my ability to stand up for different ideas, but because that guy is a jackass. I simply wouldn't want to live with that. And I wouldn't wan to live with someone who puts on the same social war paint as him, either.

71% of Bullies said they would dorm with a Nerd, but only 38% of Nerds said that they would dorm with a Bully. Nerds are more likely to say that "most or all of their friends have similar views."

Yeah, almost. There's certainly a bias in Republican circles towards group think and appeals to authority, but Democrats tend to herd like cats. It would follow that Republicans —particularly those told that they are talking to another Republican —would change their individual position more easily. And, also, American politics is skewed waaaaaaay to the right to the point that it is pretty hard to reasonably move someone further right.

Amazon sucks even worse than usual lately. I've stopped buying from them almost completely. The price of Prime keeps going up, while the percentage of times that their shit gets delivered on time goes down. I live in a pretty large metro area, we've got at least 3 Amazon DCs nearby, 2 Amazon Air hubs, and a handful of local distribution warehouses. Probably half the time my stuff comes later than promised, or not at all. And they used to give you a free month of Prime, or some other little token BS if you contacted them about late packages, they don't even do that any more.

A lot of times when I used to buy stuff off of Amazon, it was stuff that I needed by a certain date, and they usually got it for me. Things like a last minute item needed for a camping trip or vacation, or a tool to fix my bike before a race, or things like that. But I don't do that any more, because they can't reliably get my purchases to me on time.

And don't get me started on their counterfeit problems, or what a disgusting person Bezos is.

Hopefully their storefront is dying, and we'll start getting more small local shops opening back up.