These people are literally doing the Lord's Work, fighting against falsehood and lies. I really think that -- and I'm an atheist!

People that say "Believe the Science" are trying to replace science as a religion, you only trust it when you have no other choice. (But dressing up in funny costumes, waving your hands, and declaring "Deus Vult" is placeboism -- and not even trying.)

THIS. I abhor Direct Withdrawal (is that what it's called?), where they have direct access to my bank account and can pull however much they want. I MUCH rather prefer Bill Pay, where it's still scheduled but I can specify a maximum limit and the payment is canceled and I am alerted if it somehow exceeds that.

No reason, but Comcast recently increased my bill from $120/mon for 85Mb/sec to $170/mon, which triggered the notice and manual request override. I'm about to go downgrade them. (I'd pick someone else, but Oh Bother! I can't. Well that's not really true, I can pick AT&T for 1% of the speed at 33% of the cost. Competition Rules!!)

Anybody know any ISP using Internet over Smoke Signals?

Wait, there's a summary?

Your Doctor, continuing their explanation after 4 days of treatment:
So as you've noticed, every time you say you hear noise in your ears, we up the voltage then zap you again. This is all a very simple procedure to help you not hear that awful noise anymore.

We're currently right at 10 kilovolts, just so you know. So, do you hear anything ... NOW?

(Spoiler: in the Star Trek episode, he later admits to a peer afterwards that for just an instant, he saw five lights, not four.)

Don't they have backups and file history deltas easily accessible?

Instead of that, it seems that any updates and file deletions would be the absolute FIRST (but not only) place to look.

Sigh...

OK, I've been in the hospital with a cat scratch/bite back in 2001 (my cat sitting in my lap tried to bite me and I moved my leg, causing him to fall mouth open, straight down into my arm.) They had to use the ?second level of penicillin? because the first try didn't work and I was starting to get streaks in my arm.

To Your Point: This song's been around for decades (I graduated in 1976 but only found out the ?intended? meaning maybe 2 decades ago. Yep, I'm one of the hip COOL kids, you can tell -- right?) The song refers to guys in heat wanting to scratch a cat, or a pussy to be more exact.

You can guess what heat they're in and exactly which pussy they're talking about. (I don't know anything about the 10yo kids they're mentioning.)
I'm sorry to tell you since you didn't know that, you're even less COOL than I am. Keep up with the times, dude!

How droll. Wake me up when they hit 0.0nm -- THAT'LL be way more interesting.

There's a hilarious story about just this. I can't link directly to the story, but it was: "It was nothing, really!" by Theodore Sturgeon. An overview of it is here or an alternate telling here.

Ahh, just read the article. (After the fact, but this IS slashdot, so whatever.) There *IS* a workaround, for now, according to the article:

I have an app (Google Gesture Search) which allows you to write on the screen with your fingers (either cursive(!) or block.) It works great. It needs access to your contacts, and then maybe apps and files if you want it to also search over your installed apps or music. I've literally had it for years (a decade?), and it's the absolute FIRST app I sideload on any new Android phone. (v2.15, size: 5,347,191, SHA256: b96cf537f4a906f0eb44d16121f35ec8159218c1, target OS: Lollipop 5.0)

If Google doesn't want me to install it on my phone anymore, I guess I won't ... be buying any A14+ phones. Fine, last I checked my current phone (A12 / 13 someday) is still on sale for cheap, with 8G RAM and 256G storage and a 1TB ucard slot. I guess after that I'll replace the battery or try to hack the binary somehow or switch to a flip phone; that is the ONE app I will not live without and I have occasionally looked and have not found anything else like it. I hear that Chinese phones might be a great alternative -- they suck up and send out your data. (Like G / FB / Tw / / TickToc / Bing doesn't?)

"then do it for yourself".

That's the only reason for doing something, and pretty comes after a lot (most?) of your other needs are pretty much met.

Also, NO. Just like drinking Diet Coke that my friend assures me that converts into formaldehyde so that I feel I'm saving the undertaker some time, I eat meat to kill myself off early and "save the planet" from all of my would-be future pollution.

Now, is that Golden Bridge in my other pocket, or what?

The cigar had sex, I just smoked it afterwards.

From someone's standpoint, it's ALL fake, lies, and inaccurate. And the faster it goes away, the happier I'll be.

And "inaccurate" as a consideration? Why that's even better! You got the color of the paint on the wall wrong, so remove all articles about me. And even if you fix it, there's always be something else wrong.

Manager: That's great, everything is working just fine -- finally. Now to bring them back home.

Lead Engineer: ... What?!? Back home? Wait a minute, weren't they going to stay?

I hear that FTX recently found a way to transactionally make payment money simply "vanish".

WOW Just look at the growth, it's amazing!! Twenty-seven % in such a short time!

Oh, wait -- you forgot the leading zero so I accidentally misread it. It's 0.27%, not 27%. ... like my science teacher taught us decades ago. (Along with specifying too many digits to indicate accuracy you don't actually have, but that's a different story.)

Were you not paying attention? But don't worry, you've got a whole lot of company in your errant typo. :-(

I'll have two of those to go, please! BTW, nice watch.