Another search option is Kagi; I’ve been using the $10/month Professional option for circa 2 years now, to the point where I go “What the…? Oh, right” whenever I see someone use Google.

kagi.com

Holy fuck. I was going to prove your obviously-convoluted explanatory logic wrong by confirming that Siri would of course flag "Kill my enemies and then myself" as potentially concerning, but no, that went through just fine.

I… I don’t know how I feel about this. Amused but also horrified, somehow.

Same. I‘ve always thought of The Riddler as a weird and campy villain even by comics standards, but Paul Dano managed to make him believable and interesting.

Are felonies committed during previous lives disqualifying?

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

As long as I can teach it that certain series are always to have their intros played in full.

Fastmail, at least, has a very nice interactive feature that walks you through configuring your domain so that mail sent to your address[es] of choice automatically gets handed to Fastmail. It’s necessarily technical — CNAME records are involved — but they make the process straightforward.

Just want to strongly second this. I switched to Fastmail a few months ago: the initial migration from Google was smooth; daily use has been nothing but clean and gratifying.

She plays Bart Curlish, whose supernatural power is to be an unstoppable killing machine, relentlessly mowing down villains. She’s also in many ways a complete innocent. If you think that that sounds like a ridiculous inherent contradiction, you’re not wrong, but… Dourif absolutely makes it work.

Yep. She was equally terrific in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, while also being an almost unrecognizably different character. She’s amazing.

His daughter Fiona is a chip off the same fantastic block.

David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known web developer who has a reputation for being a bit of a jerk.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H...

The image of a T. Rex wearing a big fishbowl-style astronaut helmet just leapt, unbidden and insuppressible, into my mind.

Production needs to begin immediately.

Now I’m going to be here ALL DAY waiting for the carrier to arrive.

Only inanimate surfaces? Jealous.

ahahahahahahaha these are fucking dipshits who thought they didn't get the cool jobs they wanted because of a mythical black affirmative action hire but it was actually because they sucked and no one would tell them that.