David @ratamacue@mastodon.sdf.org

Facebook Messenger's new favicion looks annoyingly like it has a notification dot in browser. In the image, compare to Slack with an unread notification. Dark Pattern?

Is Pumpkin Pie a pie or a tart?

Despite controversy over whether they contain bread and general consensus that they are not delicious, Subway subs are indeed sandwiches.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/subway-bread-ireland-supreme-court/

If it's Wednesday the 12th, what is the numeric date of "last Monday"?

Nobody is 0% sloppy and 100% aware ever.

Prediction: Carnival Cruise Line offers free all-you-can-drink packages to entice customers to return. Sponsored by Corona Beer.

Maybe next time just a couple of sentences.

Why do news reports start with the name of the city the reporter is in? Is there some value to this tradition, or is it just a holdover from before communication was instant?

If the risotto is bland, add more Parmesan.

Software Engineer Friends: Curious, what kind of guidance and/or freedom do you appreciate most from your boss?

Frontier misled subscribers about Internet speeds and prices, AG finds.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1690487

Redesigned my blog. And, I took the opportunity to add a few posts. https://blog.davidron.com

Amazon Prime 2-Day Shipping Fail.

Phrase of the day: "headcount rationalization".

3 weeks to get a detective when someone used my wife's identity for a bail bond and car loan despite her having collected the evidence herself using CCPA data requests?

This when it took a couple of hours to get my first parking ticket in a decade while legally parked?

I spotted this nugget of actual insight buried in a comment flame war:
"You're making the classic mistake of assuming a common thread connects the people who've annoyed you in various unrelated contexts."

Multilingual American Presidents Table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_presidents_of_the_United_States