You can’t see something small right behind you with that.

Right? Grown ups can be trusted to get their work done without someone watching them all the time. It’s small children who need constant supervision.

Generally, how DNA tests work is by selecting points in the DNA and comparing the two samples. The more points you compare, the more likely you have a true match. If you don’t compare enough points, or pick places in the DNA that are unlikely to have much variability across the population, you’ll get all matches on those points and say it’s a match. For paternity testing, you’re looking for ~50% matches.

Though, in this case, it does look like they were just making stuff up:

Richot said she was coached to ask women seeking prenatal paternity test kits about times in their menstrual cycles and the dates they had intercourse with different men — information that is useless for a DNA test.

Staff put the dates into an online ovulation calendar to narrow down the possible biological father, she said. Richot then entered the information into a form that went to Tenenbaum for signoff.

“[Tenenbaum] would always make a comment like: ‘It’s definitely this one [the biological father]. It’s this one, it’s got to be this one,’” said Richot.

You know what the plan to store a lot of nuclear waste in America is? Bury it in west nowhere, Texas.

If we’re talking about home desktop users (I’m including laptops, but not phones/tablets), I think that number is on the decline. 10-20 years ago, you generally needed a computer to function. Now, I use my desktop for some games and to do taxes. And last year, I actually did taxes on my phone (I had newborn twins so sitting down at a computer for any meaningful amount of time was not happening). It was a little bit of a pain, but totally do-able. My mom didn’t bother getting another desktop after hers died a year ago.

Mobile devices usually don’t encourage tech savviness and it seems to be the direction most personal use of computers is going.

The people who can’t tell the difference between 720p and 4k seem like the least likely to try changing their operating system.

As for home users, with each newer generation, they become more tech savy

Pretty sure the opposite is true at this point.

They’re not nuking every copy of windows 10 when the service lifetime ends. They’re just not working on it anymore. If you think the regular maintenance is just updating the spyware and ads, you should be stoked.

I’m definitely taking my hand off the wheel to operate things like headlights or wiper speed, which are dials on the end of a stalk. It would be really difficult not to.

Are you counting the stalks behind the wheel as on the steering wheel?

There’s actually a good number of things: windshield wipers, blinkers, cruise control, climate control, defrost, headlights, hazards, and gear (prndl). You’d be surprised at which of these some companies have tried to put on the touch screen.

I’m not in the business. I’ve bought a house but other than that, don’t have any dealings with real estate agents. I don’t really care. But they do, so it’s kinda plastered anywhere Realtor is used (all kinds of marks after the name) and I even vaguely remember TV ads about realtors being better than real estate agents or something.

The National Association of Realtors is pretty consistent at insisting anyone not associated with them is a real estate agent not a Realtor.

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Right? Even when skimming papers, it’s usually: read title & abstract, look at figures, skim results & conclusion. If you don’t notice that the figure doesn’t have real words, how is anyone making sure the methodology makes sense? That the results show what the conclusion says they show?

That’s the opposite. Not bringing a bill that won’t pass has the same basic outcome without wasting everyone’s time.

What do you mean by specifically searching? Because it totally comes up for me.

Do yours freak out when you put your re-usable bags in the bagging area even when you tell it you’re using 4 of your own bags? Or have two barcodes on packages and if the wrong one scans (either because you aren’t sure which needs to be scanned or because they’re next to each other and you don’t get a gun), you need a cashier to override? Or have weight sensors that are just wrong about how much items should weigh? Or only have enough room for like 2 bags of groceries but it isn’t ok to take any out of the bagging area?

I don’t think it’s just customers.

Being (justifiably) upset about 7 minutes late and having to pay the full rate shows how far we’ve come from taxis of a couple decades ago.

Tell me you didn’t take taxis without telling me you didn’t take taxis.

From not showing up for hours to weird routes to drive up the meter to “malfunctioning” credit card readers, taxis sucked. And the medallion system in places would give companies something of a monopoly.