and, in doing so, remind myself that whatever I'm supposed to be working on is both easier and less infuriating than playing Stealth B
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github.com/katstasaphI don't use Venmo for privacy reasons (they've supposedly gotten "better," in that you can opt to just walk around the gaping privacy sinkhole that is still there).
And this one reasonable choice has generated so much social friction, because increasingly one is expected to already have this ostensibly optional app in the way one was once expected to carry cash. I can't count the number of variations of this basic conversation I've had: "I'm sorry, I know all 10 other people here are Venmoing you and I know this is going to make things more difficult, but I actually don't have Venmo for privacy reasons. I don't really want to get into the specifics1. No, I'm not trying to get out of paying you back. Yes, I'll still pay you back. Do you have [other service]? No? How about [other other service]? No? I can run to an ATM if you like...."
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As a writer for Gizmodo, writing about a similar feature on Facebook, put it: "When you start aggressively mining people’s social networks, it’s easy to surface people we know that we don’t want to know."
Y'all I just watched Austin Powers for the first time in like a decade and that movie is still fun. But I'm here to tell you that whatever you think is the best Austin Powers sequel is, you're wrong. The actual best Austin Powers sequel is these local car commercials that used to air in 2009.