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[unhinged ranting about how a company raising its prices is worse than what the Nazis did]

Viewers who like a show also want to know whether the show is likely to get renewed for later seasons. Knowing that the show is doing really well (or not) helps me set my expectations for whether I’m likely to get more of it. Yeah, it doesn’t change a whole lot about my life (it’s not like I’m making major decisions based on whether show X gets renewed) but I like to be excited about future seasons of shows I like, and I don’t like being in the dark about whether I’m ever gonna get to see more.

If it’s so prevalent, then why doesn’t this seem to be an issue for me or anyone I know?

(because we just disable notifications if they’re annoying. it’s super easy, barely an inconvenience)

tl;dr: "I’m incapable of figuring out how to manage my notifications, and somehow this justifies an article for me to publicly bitch about it"

A relatively minor problem, but one that would annoy a lot of people: Birthdays would always fall on the same day of the week. Mine would always be on a Wednesday, which is a workday, so I’d basically never get to have a proper celebration on my birthday, whereas currently some years I do and some I don’t. Not a huge deal, really, but something to consider.

There’s other effects: Some companies (e.g. LA Metro) give employees their birthday as a holiday, because they have unusual scheduling needs (you can’t have everyone kick off around Christmas for a week, because the trains/buses still need to run; so they try to spread days off throughout the year by various mechanisms, including the birthday one). It might not cause much of an impact, but it might; the point being that there are always going to be a lot of weird edge cases for any "let’s change the calendar!" proposal, and anyone who thinks there’s a "simple" solution to this is being daft.

I probably missed something, but hasn’t this been an issue for going on 30 years? And they’re just now disabling macros by default?

Don’t all the major browsers already have cloud sync for this kind of thing?

It bugs the shit out of me when a change in numbers is reported with the end number first. Always do it in chronological order: "from $1.19 billion to $1.18 billion".

"This is the LockPickingLawyer, and what I have for you today is—" accidentally bumps into lock, it pops open "Well, that’s all I have for you today. If you have any questions or comments…"

Do you want terminators? Because this is how you get terminators.

Playing this way seems like it allows for Absurdle, where you can change what word you claim to have thought of as long as you obey the yellow/green constraints.