I thought they were talking about the elementary particle—I was afraid we’d have to find some other way of manifesting our physical existence.

Who do you think he is, Generalissimo Francisco Franco?

This isn’t great, but it’s what I ended up resorting to for my mom who refused to use any service, browser setting, or saved file:

• Make a “master” password with upper-case characters and digits (e.g., M45T3R). Memorize it or write it down.

• Interleave the characters with those of the domain the password is for (e.g., for google.com: gMo4o5gTl3eR). She can type the master password first, then put the cursor at the start and type each letter of the domain name hitting the right arrow after each letter.

As long as she remembered the master password, she could reconstruct the others on the fly. A human could still look at the result and figure out the pattern, but at least it protected her from automated tools.

OP says part of their problem is that their mom wants to access the passwords from her phone.

Well obviously that just shows that you’ve successfully sublimated those urges. /s

Doesn’t a song have words by definition?

If you’re looking for musical compositions, I’d say Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quintet or Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Does a Chinese chef get extremely angry at an Italian chef for making pasta?

A number for which that is true is called a normal number. It’s proven that almost all real numbers are normal, but it’s very difficult to prove that any particular number is normal. It hasn’t yet been proved that π is normal, though it’s generally assumed to be.

Wake up.

Instead of trying to detect and block it, just disincentivize it.

Most AI spam on social media tries to exploit various systems intended to predict “good” content on the basis of a user’s past activity, by tracking reputation/karma/etc. Bots build up karma by posting a massive amount of innocuous (but usually insipid) content, then leverage that karma to increase the visibility of malicious content. Both halves of this process result in worse content than if the karma system didn’t exist in the first place.

Is your Kindle e-ink?

The general issue with e-ink-based readers and scrolling is that e-ink is designed to be mostly static, with sporadic (preferably partial-page) refreshes; but scrolling needs to have a very high refresh rate that updates the whole page simultaneously if it’s going to be usable.

Because we think of every life as a story, and every story needs narrative closure. So if someone’s life seems like an unfinished story we feel like there’s some kind of lingering agency trying to finish it.

When politicians refuse to talk about it.

A reverse clepsydra: an air-filled container that releases bubbles at a constant rate.

It depends on the joke: most are funny regardless, but for some jokes a straight/deadpan delivery is part of the humor.

You could set it to use your own DNS server, and have the server block anything not on a whitelist.

In the context of a semi-nomadic culture that had just conquered the urban Canaanites, pigs were city animals distinct from the nomadic sheep and goats—a ban on pork would prevent cultural assimilation. Same with the ban on shellfish that would have been standard in the coastal cities.

For a parallel, look at segregation-era white Americans banning music and other cultural pratices associated with African-Americans.

So… a business card?

The Harappan language—then you could decipher the script of the Indus Valley civilization.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/hawks-helping-keep-oakland-streets-safe-by-dispersing-crow-roosts/

while Baz insists he has nothing against crows, it’s the mess they leave behind that has people crying foul.