It's not technically if the letter is a vowel, it's the vowel sound.

The word "union" actually starts with the sharp Y sound, which is a consonant sound. It gets the article "a".

The word "onion" starts with the "uh" sound, which is a vowel sound. It gets the article "an".

The goal is to prevent two vowel sounds from touching between words. "a apple", "a orange", "a eagle" feels super weird to most native English speakers.

Haha, no, it wasn't and no, I shouldn't.
If that's your immediate response maybe you should feel like an asshole though, lol.
Take care.

Not really.
Do you review the prices on your entire receipt when you get home now? Me neither.
But think about all of the people you know who live to scream at a manager about everything wrong in their store. They're out there. And some of those people will be using their cameras. Protecting the rest of us with their compulsion to catch someone making a mistake.
Mmmm, America!

I'm not sure that's correct. Even if you don't watch ads as video interruptions Google is mining your viewing habits and aggregating that to your 'consumer profile.' The ads you see on all of the Google owned websites and services are partially driven by this.

I would be more forgiving of this if they had not first deliberately driven all competition from the market to become a monopoly. As it is, F YouTube.

I was an Audible member from 2016 until 2021. I paid every month but Audible still flashed ads on the home screen every time I opened the app. Okay, it is what it is, right?

Then they started spamming my notifications screen with ads, even if I wasn't listening to Audible. Wtf? Just, no. I went to the notification control, and turns out you can only stop notification ads by also removing the player control from the lock screen. Turn off ads and you can no longer stop and start playback with the button on your earbuds. Nice.

Fuck Audible.

I canceled my membership and now I use a 'free' model. Guess what? no more ads!

When a company sees their customers as nothing more than an ATM machine, I want them to fail. Even if they are a monopoly.

Computers start counting at 0.
The highest number you can count in 16 bits is 65535.
65536 is 17 bits, a 1 followed by 16 0s.

The William Gibson reference was unintentional, but made me smile.

I am sure some businesses do this, but consider the liability issues for them.
If they are retaining your info after explicitly being told not to, and your information is lost in an attack, are they likely to get sued or prosecuted for that?
I honestly don't know, but it seems like a big risk for little return.

Some bad actors will store them anyway, some good actors will not. Every website that does not store your info is a reduction in your attack surface.

Nice.

Thanks for proving my point.

You fell for the Rope-A-Dope.

"Without proof" is how ALL accusations begin. Once there's proof, they aren't accusations anymore. They're called facts.

When a MAGAer claims you never prove criminal behavior on Trump's part, point to the Ukraine phone call, point to the impeachment.

When they say he was acquitted, point to all of the suppressed witnesses and the withheld evidence.

When they say that's all fake news, understand what you're dealing with and move on with your life. Being intellectually honest and openminded doesn't mean dipshits deserve your time or attention. Or respect. Don't honor their false equivalences.

With distance and clarity, if you feel like it, take some time and ponder the implications of what you hear from the other side. Assume those really are their best-reasoned arguments. Assume they really do feel that way. If this is them acting in good faith, is there any point in trying to reason with them?

Nice catch.

When in reality it is exactly the other way around.

I think.

What? Like 5 or 6?

No. Remember FOSTA-SESTA? I do. That was 2018. R's are trying to tilt USSC to overturn Roe v Wade right now.

No, I'm thinking more about the pussy-grabber standing in front of a church he doesn't attend holding up a Bible, upside down. Classic.

But that's NOT all I know about them so keep your patronizing forgiveness.

You're threatening a civil war if you don't get your way. That makes you a treasonous piece of shit. Congratulations.

More than half of Americans self-identify as Liberal. That's right, Conservatives are a minority. But if they don't get to boss the country around they still feel they got robbed.

As for totalitarianism, the Republican presidential candidate is trying to get the US A.G. to file charges against his opponent!!! Do you even hear yourself right now? Hahaha!

Also, learn to spell.