Not sure it quite qualifies here, but I threw a few dollars at Project Gutenberg yesterday.

I’ve replied with just these letters to people before. Improved UX can only get you so far, before the ticket becomes “can you fix stupid?”.

PEBCAK.

Race to the bottom, bare minimum it is then

The third one sounds like they’re being set up for failure. Or someone doesn’t understand the meaning of “can’t”.

How are they at very very low volumes?

And children from messing with them

I hate it. If I interact with a system in anything more than a very sporadic way, I end up with multiple objects on screen that all say “created just now” which is completely unhelpful.

Luckily most systems can re-enable actual time again (even if it is buried in a settings menu) so I can see what’s actually happening.

In the UK we have the electoral boundary commission specifically to avoid this sort of thing. Do you have an example of it being a problem in the UK?

Is YouTube free? Is it ignoring the usage agreements of those sources if it’s stripping out adverts?

Baldrick writing poetry

Are you telling me they didn’t actually find a spitfire on the moon?

Belief in religion is not at all voluntary in some places. At least lip service, while still going through all the motions.

I have a handful of friends I’ve lent around a grand to before, one considerably more than that. With a repayment plan set up, which was followed, but I don’t really know or care what it was used for. Avoiding high interest rates on credit cards I assume.

A teapot, no. A racecar, sure, did it a while back and then basically stopped talking about it.

Damned right

Schedule, I have to say the correct pronunciation every time I hear it said differently.