not how colons work

You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a : pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times message

Breaking News: Susan[…]

for a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.

This is why quoting exists.

Right: that’s the right order.

Do web searches care about word order, though?

It ain’t only corporations, it’s casual, intuitive, everyday speakers—the community that owns the language—arriving there naturally from the regular meaning of individual words: They see a work that appears to be created by some form of intelligence/creativity. No natural intelligence created it. Hence, a work of artificial intelligence.

See? Not that hard. No need to be difficult about it. Nitpicking a casual speaker over it is bound to earn you well-deserved disdain.

What is a web search?

Exactly: neighbors can stay mad. Mint is cooler than neighbors arguably (& chemically).

If you want mint & don’t care about other plants, then I don’t see a problem. Some people might consider its low maintenance effort a good thing. 🤷

Ah, surveys, which classify as observational, cross-sectional studies: pretty low on the hierarchy of evidence, yes?

Now show us studies that apply the same methods on the relationship with belief & attitudes toward bank robberies, risky driving, or dark personality traits as mentioned before. Applying the same methods on those questions would inform us whether such studies put them all on “the same level” as sexism or “objectification of women” (which someone before claimed would be funny), and whether we can put much stock in conclusions drawn from these methods.

It’s also questionable whether answers to survey questions imply much beyond state of mind that has real-life consequences. Unless there’s clear evidence of that, it’s a slippery slope.

This would be a cause student activism could meaningfully engage unlike the usual fare that’d hardly move the needle.

Nah, any decent password manager or security application can manage multi-factor security credentials of any kind without lock-out due to phone loss.

Password authentication is beyond primitive by offering too many avenues of attack: the full secret is transmitted & shared. Passkeys, client certificates, OTP don’t transmit the secret key. Passkeys & client certificates authentication never share a secret key, so the server can’t expose it.

It’s not that deep. Lots of teenagers do edgy stuff just because it’s edgy and not allowed.

Thank goodness we can arrest them for it.

Not Nigerian enough.