As a European, the whole registering to vote thing is honestly one of the wildest parts of the US elections to me. It’s so unnecessary complicated and prone to errors/manipulation.
...what the electorate consider a bug the politicians consider a feature...
...hey, that's just like my library's old PET 2001, my first computer!..
...ah, i may be conflating contextal menus with opening new tabs, since that's the primary UI mode i use to do so: regardless, any kind of shenanigans which aim to disable application-level UI get under my skin...
...and now you've hit upon my other peeve: (mostly shopping) sites coded to disable browsing links in a new tab...
...i don't know that i shouldn't've seen it, but the 1978 invasion of the body snatchers was my introduction to existential horror at the ripe age of seven years...
...what shouldn't i have seen?..about a year earlier, a family friend handed-down a big brown grocery bag stacked to the rim with pre-code EC horror comics: that was some teeth-gnashingly gruesome stuff...
...we have a couple of industrial fans but the sound's not quite right by comparison to cross-flow impellers...
...at some level i secretly suspect that sleeping under omnipresent white noise has only made my tinnitus worse over time, but that could also be a natural consequence of my ears aging-out...
(could also come from driving a convertible at speed while blasting music on a three-hour commute every day, if i'm honest)
...dark mode text while lying in repose on my side usually does the trick for me, but then i wake up later with a drained ipad propped against the wall...
...white noise drowns out the ringing in my ears and calms the voices in my head...
...my fan broke earlier this year; i'm shopping for a mechanical white-noise generator...
...when our central air conditioner failed during this summer's hundred-degree spell, i installed a temporary window-box unit and sleeping was BLISS: tinnitus gang needs fans...
...not entirely sure; possibly a proxy for snapping in real life?..
...here's the thing most folks don't realise: as a metropolitan area, austin skews far more conservative than san antonio...
~(we~ ~actually~ ~meet~ ~in~ ~the~ ~basement~ ~of~ ~the~ ~alamo)~