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Assault, presumably. Pretty soon we may find ourselves introducing autocorrect errors like that on porpoise, to try to show we're not AI.

There’s interesting ambiguity in this comment. I interpret the comment as saying, “I could be tricked by a deepfake of a stranger due to a lack of experience with their ‘true’ behaviors, but would not be tricked so easily when it’s someone I know well.”

Others here seem to be interpreting the statement as, “I could be tricked because I am an older person, while a younger person would not be so easily deceived.”

The point is not if the politicians did better than they would have with another investing approach. It's a standard conflict of interest: the appearance of insider trading is corrosive because others see it and figure it's "how the game is played." So they need to do the same to keep up.

This is exactly what Transformers were in the 1980s: pre-existing Japanese toys whose existence had nothing to do with the retconned “Autobots vs. Decepticons” cartoon plot. That was invented to drive the toys into the American market.

I wonder — is the name a reference to the mass confusion about “Shazam” starring Sinbad and “Kazam” starring Shaquille O’Neal? Or an example of it?

The price difference is a way to pass along credit card fees that otherwise would have to be paid by the station operator. It used to be against the credit card networks’ merchant agreements to have separate cash and credit prices — but a good number of LA gas stations rolled the dice and did it anyway. That rule changed a few years ago, and now most stations split their pricing. (I believe that’s also why ARCO gas now takes credit cards, after holding out for decades — they are now allowed to pass along the cost to the customer.)

Yep. On a new machine I always go to the menu in System Preferences and choose "View" → "Organize Alphabetically"

Given that this is Comedy Central (owned by Viacom), I'd imagine the idea was run past Starbucks' legal department before it was greenlit. I'd also wager there's a legal agreement governing what CC can and can't do, and even how Starbucks will or won't react.

I can only see the Spanish-language page for some reason. Safari on OS X 10.9. Changing the user agent doesn't fix it.