I switched to Mint a year ago. I'm a fairly savvy user, but I'm far from having any kind of computer science credentials.

I find the general update process in Mint to be much easier, more intuitive, and less intrusive than Windows.

There's a bit of a learning curve to using the command line, but software installation in Mint has been a breeze compared to Windows.

I have also toured Mammoth Cave with people who want to challenge the science with their young-earth creationist claims.

Obviously, the tour guides get that a lot, because at least two different ones basically said, "You're welcome to your religious beliefs, but here at Mammoth Cave we follow the empirical scientific evidence that shows ..."

Not really.

We’ve checked six standard dictionaries and all of them list “extrovert” as the principal spelling for someone with an outgoing or gregarious personality, though five include “extravert” as an acceptable variant.

• per Grammarphobia

Extravert, on the other hand, is another way of saying extrovert that was originally used by Carl Jung. [...] it appears the most common and proper way to use the term outside of technical journals is with the "o," though who knows; maybe this will develop into an Oxford comma situation.

• per Writer's Digest

extravert noun /ˈekstrəvɜːt/ /ˈekstrəvɜːrt/ (also more frequent extrovert)

Per Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

I'm in the affected area. The situation is very serious.

My city had 17 confirmed collapsed buildings and 19 partially collapsed buildings, as of a few hours ago. I am safe and my home is secure, but some of the apartment buildings on my block have been evacuated because they are unsafe to inhabit.

There is damage everywhere you look. I saw the insides of more apartments today than I ever would have thought possible. Entire walls have sheared off buildings. Balconies have fallen. Cars have been smashed in the streets. Some parts of the city are inaccessible because of the rubble.

It will be costly and difficult to clean up and rebuild, but the people of Colombia are resilient and hard-working. I passed a mall this afternoon where workers were replacing the shattered windows a mere five hours after the earthquake. It was a nice sign that we're not giving up.

Of the seven indoor cats I've had, only two weren't interested in playing fetch.

Then again, they were very stereotypical orange tabbies, so maybe they just weren't smart enough to figure it out.

2020s Democrats are mostly 1980s Republicans that are more okay with diversity.

Sex Ed varies by state and sometimes by school district. In elementary school, it's frequently limited to "good touch, bad touch"-type lessons.

It's not uncommon for parents to need to "opt in" for their kids to be included in the lessons at all ages. Basically, they have to approve of letting their kids learn about sexual health.

Maybe don't ask LLMs for translation help. Apparently because many of them are programmed in English, they still follow English structures when writing in other languages, resulting in products that are grammatically incorrect.

We have gone from reasonably-okay translation programs to "intelligent" systems that are flat-out incorrect. And somehow people believe that the incorrect ones are better.

I look forward to this particular hype train running off the rails sooner rather than later.

That sounds more like the job of an editor than the job of a writer.

When I was an editor, my job was to assign stories to writers and then to work with the editorial team to revise and refine their output into an end product that the publication could stand behind.

Your process sounds a lot like that.

My husband was recently trying to find an exact quote from Richard Pryor's character in Lost Highway, so he Googled it.

Google's AI overview said that Richard Pryor was not in Lost Highway and instead gave some suggestions for other films we might be thinking of.

The quote he was trying to remember was, "There's nine people down here, and you can ask seven of them. If you can get that price from one of them, I'll let you ask the other two."

The "unprofessional conduct" that he's alerting us to is his own behavior, right?

I read that and thought, "Whatever is coming is probably a huge breach of business etiquette." And I was right.

Edited to add: If the candidate's behavior in the interview was so egregious, why would you even waste your time with follow-up calls? It sounds like they wanted to hire the guy, but he wasn't interested in working for them after the interview. Sour grapes, anyone?

I don't understand how it's legal for a court to order religion-based therapy that costs $1500 per month. That's absolutely insane from every possible angle.