Yes, This, Especially Because Finding The Relevant INSTANT In A Video Is Such A Pain. Let Me Use My Eyes

Hey, don't forget Orson Scott Card for this, too.

It's weird that to this day a lot of people don't really get the difference between like. "this author is a bad person and the work is problematic" normal style and the much more intense "the author is an important figure in a hate group and actively uses her money and power and fame to take away people's rights, and is currently very successful at doing that"

I'm old enough to just say two words: Tom. Leher.

We all had fun with geography class now onto science! take this quiz to name as many elements as you can :)

obligatory rb for sample size <3

As above, but, I mean, it's happened to me a few times.

Reblog if you’d be okay if your friend came out as transgender

let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out

They need to be better known!  And if they’re predators, can we train them to hunt creationists?  (I don’t mean for them to HURT anybody.  Just track them down, and skim in front of them holding up signs that say “I got your transitional form RIGHT HERE BUDDY”)

THDI IS FUCKING KILLING MEEEE

Hey, sometimes it's about finding what you have in common.

It’s just me

Hi.  I’m Josh.  I’m fairly old.  I sometimes write games, and sometimes I talk about them.

Yep. Not gonna, either.

Yeah, that's the hill I'd die on, too.

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

Was it a third-party platform?

See, GrubHub and UberEats and Door dash and so on are apps created by computer people, NOT restaurant people, and speaking as someone who has had to be the restaurant tech guy putting stuff in those, it really shows!

It's a thing that comes up all the time, too. "These are the data reports that your POS will give you!"

"Okay, cool. Can I have coupon use by map sector for targeted local marketing?'

"Why would you want to--"

"Then how about deliveries by address instead of phone number? Dorms and hotels and things like that can have a hundred phone numbers for one address, and I want to-- why are you staring at me like that?"

And menus in third-party apps are just as bad. Sometimes, if you're very sneaky, you can figure out how to make something the programmers never thought of work for you, but you may have to have a good idea of how the program works, maybe a background in computer work... And many small restaurants just don't have someone for that.

(It also goes both ways, of course. "Why can't the program just do the thing I want?" Because it's not set up to, or the data doesn't exist, or...)

Okay, so: there's a local restaurant whose online ordering process involves various selecting various sauces to be included with one's order – so many units of teriyaki sauce, so many units of hot sauce, so may units of peanut sauce, and so forth.

The idea is supposed to be that you can select any combination of sauces you want, as long as it adds up to no more than four units. However, what the app actually required is that you select exactly four units of sauces; it wouldn't let you submit the ordering form if the total wasn't exactly four.

Just today I discovered that they seem to have fixed it... not by correcting the errant validation rule, but by adding a "no sauce" option, which counts toward the required total of four.

Thus, it's now possible to place an order with, say, two units of teriyaki sauce rather than four by entering 2x "teriyaki sauce" and 2x "no sauce". Similarly, an order with no sauce at all is 4x "no sauce".

This is quite possibly the least intuitive ordering process I've ever encountered, and I've literally worked in e-commerce.

I, too, reblog because this must be known.