Funny, my comparatively new LG all-in-one wash/dry machine is very repairable. Haven't had to do much (drain pump, clean out), but it's all accessible, no special tools I've needed.

But Sonos? Yeah. Fuck them. Up the ass. With Scotchbrite.

No? DIAF, Sonos.

Brand new speakers worked great for a couple months before they defeatured what I was mainly using.

Anyone who's ever worked a conference ought to know you don't leave anything worth stealing on the exhibitor floor. Doesn't matter if you have a security guard: Things get legs.

I got no tears.

On......ICE!

Can I pay for a service that will keep this way the fuck off of my phone and computer?

Molluscum contagiosum!!!

Mod parent up.

As a clause "can, and".

Somebody (Strunk & White?) said "the essential skill of writing is editing". I agree completely.

However, I'll take a skilled human or nobody over an AI any day.

I don't think so. It's possible that either is correct, but if I remove the preliminary "can," clause, I'm left with

my way: "I do write well"

your way: "I do, write well"

The second does not really trip off the tongue.

Eh? Not sure where you get that.

I never use AI to edit or "improve" my writing. Would never do so. Not only do I have no need; I find the concept offensive.

I hate seeing AI buttons in things like Gmail with labels like "improve". Pisses me right off.

You do you. I don't want it touching my writing.

Job applications have been consigned to my personal dustbin of history.

Feels like I stepped out of the workforce at just the right moment.

Lost, sorry.

I can, and do write well.

I wouldn't _ever_ let AI mess with my style or voice.

More often, a computer's spell-check or glide-typing correction on my phone fucks up what I was TRYING to say. That's the whole thing in microcosm.

Damn, you're right.

Those poor fucking European bastards with their continent-wide passenger rail system, working public transportation, free national health care, vanishingly low rates of gun crime, social safety net, democracy, decreasing carbon debt, open borders and beautiful walkable cities!

What the hell are they thinking?

And oh yeah, they have to put up with that goddamn Eiffel tower, the Alps, Stonehenge, fucking Tulips, Pompeii, the best museums on the planet and OH MY GOD, Scotland!!!1!

I'd GTFO, wouldn't you?