Having had my 2FA Facebook account banned 3 years ago because a bot signed up under my email for Instagram (which I did not have), I can confidently say the email verification issue has been a problem for a long time at Meta.

At least in America, most people do not like nuanced takes on issues / people, even if you are being playful.

I'm afraid you need to go fit inside one of the echo chambers and conform to a given narrative good sir.

Not a YEC, but you, the sentient being made in God's image, don't join a MineCraft world that is still a molten ball of lava/magma with no solid surface.

Indeed, although today I got on a plane at LaGuardia and they made me check my carry on at the gate even though there was plenty of space in the overhead bins ( 60% capacity flight, about half of us had to do this) so YMMV.

No idea why they made us do that, but I had to grab my bag at the luggage claim.

I do this kind of parallelism with a little merge request tool I slopped together. I spin up multiple small agents and assign them specific code review tasks (security, coding standards, etc.) and have it spit out a gitlab API draft json object with code examples for the MR I can deterministically validate against. If it fails to insert code examples (depending on the task) and the proper json object schema, I have "ask it to try again" logic in place.

Works fine, forcing LLMs to output parsable responses is a good workaround to get them to do what you want until they improve. It also allows you to use the fast models (ex. I spin up the Gemini 3.1 flash lite model for these tasks) to have these tasks done in seconds rather than minutes.

Similar to your method

Indeed, how could it not have been more obvious than when Biden made it illegal for the railroad workers to strike in Dec. 2022. The sides are the same when it comes to an actual threat to the status quo.

I love a good cathartic rant

I don't recall Alaska being particularly bad when I went in July. The mosquitoes I did encounter were huge though.

Apparently Alaska has "mosquito seasons" which are exceptionally bad ("blot out the sun" type) but relatively livable at other times.

Places like Wisconsin aren't as bad but it's all season long.

I thought that the joke in Alaska was that mosquitoes are the state bird.

n=1, been lifting weights for 25 years and lost 40 lbs on Zepbound and counting.

I can still do my routines easily with no issues. My muscles look slightly smaller I think, but maybe that's the fat around them that's been diminished.

We set time limits on tablet and rules like getting your homework done first, but my 9 year old specifically begs me to let him have Roblox, which I think he is too young to play.

I told him he can play it, but he has to beat Chrono Trigger (tablet version) first. He didn't even get to the county fair and gave up, saying it was too boring, the nerve!