As someone who works in a call center, not all places have numerical extensions or ways to contact an individual. Some places you just get whoever is available next. Still, not a bad idea to ask for it, and if they give you a number, write it down and check it against publicly available info.

The hunting game in Oregon Trail.

I read lots of books. Libby is an app to electronically check out books from your local library for free. You can also read lots of amateur stories online on various sites. Royal Road has been one of my favorite sites for regular stories that you can read in public.

Agreed. It wasn’t the right answer, but it was the one the government pursued.

Fracking was our answer to energy independence.

The church’s overall support for trump and anti-vax/anti-mask positions were a strong counter to the doctrine of sanctification, especially as support tended to increase among older populations. Sanctification is central enough to Christianity to be one of the pillars that either proves or disproves it.

I am bald, but I do this with my beard.

Governments do.

It has potential to be a good rocket, but I’ll be interested to see if it becomes the revolutionary rocket that Elon says it will be.

I think enshittification is hitting everything, but it’s probably also that you are old. I find that I just can’t eat the same way that I could 20 years ago.

Whenever I get Starbucks I feel guilty because they are union busters. I’ve been making a lot more coffee at home.

I learned in college (from my nurse girlfriend) that if a girl is taking antibiotics that it invalidates her birth control pills for the month and you need to use condoms until after her period.

Spread the word, brothers.

Just search “sort” in the settings and you’ll find a spot where you can set the default sort. I also switched mine to hot.

If you click on the 3 dots to access the post options for a post from that instance, there is an option to filter out just that community or even that whole instance. I’ve done that with several non-english instances.

That is based on $67,000,000 per falcon 9 launch. I suspect it cost SpaceX way less to launch than that even though they might bill that amount to customers.