Pretty much. Try getting a job without online access, or applying for state and federal benefits. Or getting a doctor through your insurance plan.

Gosar is such a tool.

You know it’s bad when his own family said “Yeah, don’t vote for this guy.”

https://youtu.be/j1W7lx6IsnY

Pointless survey since we don’t have national elections.

We won’t have a real understanding until we can count Trump primary votes and compare that to the state by state results in the 2016 primary and general.

Then it’s matter of following state by state polling until election day.

“Additionally, Mr Biden’s age remains a problem for many who believe at 80 years old, he is too old to run again.”

Trump will be the same age Biden is now in 2026.

I would love to teach again, but aside from the fact that, physically, standing and talking for 8 hours a day is outside my reach now, I would also take probably a 66% to 75% paycut to do it. :(

I could see a purpose for it:

“This is ‘propaganda’ kids. It’s designed to teach you things that aren’t true. Here’s how to learn it isn’t true, and here’s how to learn who is behind it and why they want you to be taught things that aren’t true.”

Text encoding is SUPER basic and anyone looking to get involved in Linux or scripting absolutely should know that stuff FIRST.

Source: I was teaching Linux 23 years ago before it was cool.

Here’s a good primer:

ASCII:
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/ASCII-American-Standard-Code-for-Information-Interchange

URL encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

Entity encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Really, ALL of the W3Schools stuff is just fantastic. Anyone remotely interested in this stuff should start at the beginning there and work up.

Not in HTML. Never has worked that way.

Special reserved characters have always been handled this way because you don’t want to accidentally interpret something the wrong way.

Same for URL encoding. You upload “Clever Name.PDF” to a website and it generates a URL of “Clever%20Name.PDF” because spaces aren’t valid in URLs. %20 is the code for a space.

OP noted: “Don’t get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts”

If you’re running linux commands and scripts, you’re not a normal user and should know this already. :) It’s only been the standard for 30 years or so.

& is how & is represented in HTML.

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php/105012-What-does-amp-amp-mean-see-it-a-lot-and-its-not-in-the-acronym-page

If you need a literal &, then preceed it with an escape character like “\”.

Legumes are a type of vegetable.

The hill I WILL die on is that mushrooms, as a fungus, are not.

This is immediately obvious to anyone who followed the timeline of events.

Removing Shokin didn’t STOP the Burisma investigation. It allowed it to move forward! Shokin was the guy slow-walking it.

https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/

It’s not just the conservative media that’s the problem. Even CNN in 2016 would run breathless live coverage from a location where a Trump event was scheduled for hours later, or had happened hours previously.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders filled a basketball arena in Portland with thousands of people crowded around outside. CNN? Silence.

I joked that Trump couldn’t pass gas without live CNN talking heads discussing if it were more “fruity” or “nutty”, but really that’s only half kidding.

The media has already decided that they want Trump/Biden again.

Oscar.

https://youtu.be/QbfVZBsgC4s

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America)

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Linda Gray
Chazz Palminteri
Kurtwood Smith
Yvonne De Carlo
Martin Ferrero
Harry Shearer
Arleen Sorkin
Kirk Douglas

Dunno. I dropped out 30 years ago.

Wanted to teach high school.

Kinda need my undergrad first…

Dining out is CRAZY now.

My wife and I were out and about last weekend and needed to eat so we hit a Burger King.

Meals for 2, nothing crazy, was $30… at freaking BURGER KING. We don’t even have a sales tax here.

Everyone who engages in a post I made gets an upvote.

Everyone who replies to a comment I made gets an upvote.

If a post is interesting enough to me to comment, it gets an upvote.

I’d call your insurance company, they should be able to figure it out.

The Bialetti doesn’t need seasoning and enameled cast iron doesn’t either. You get the benefits of cast iron without the hassle. It’s heavy though.

The one thing to be aware of is there are 2 kinds if enamel, black and white, and they do different things:

https://www.lecreuset.com/blog/differences-between-sand-and-black-satin-enamel.html