dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️

I’m calling this now: It’ll be even worse than you think, because “investigating” everyone this way would require a completely unrealistic amount of effort, because you’d have to review possibly decades worth of social media activity right then and there when the prospective entrant is standing at the customs desk. Nobody could possibly do that.

So these idiots will just use AI to do it for them, and as we all know full well the AI will return Earth-shatteringly wrong results pretty much all the time.

There was a specific version of the AOL installer back in the late '90s that would still let you install it and sign on even if you declined the EULA. It’s doubtful that anyone noticed or cared, but a friend of mine noticed it and I’ve pathologically tried clicking “no” on every EULA prompt ever since just to see if whatever piece of software will let me in anyway. Every once in a while I find one that does, but it’s pretty rare.

I imagine in this case somebody fucked up and just copy-pasted the “yes” button on the form without bothering to change its action in addition to its text. Who knows how that would stand up in court, and probably nobody’s ever had the opportunity to find out anyway.

I’ve never seen naptha (i.e. Zippo lighter fluid) do anything to any painted or finished surface, nor any of the plastics I’ve ever tired it on. I’ve been using the stuff in that context for decades, to the extent that I literally purchase it by the gallon. (I also use it in my lighters, because painter’s naptha is like 2% of the cost per volume of brand name Zippo fluid despite being the same stuff.)

WD-40 contains nonvolatile oils that will leave a difficult to clean off residue behind and if you use it on anything porous it will soak in and possibly stain the surface while being functionally impossible to remove without using yet more solvents. For that reason it’s not really a great way to get stickers off of things, especially things that you’d like to remain non-greasy or may need to stick something to again at some point in the future (paint, tape, etc.).

Naptha will evaporate entirely on its own given enough time, and you can even use it on paper and printed surfaces (excluding inkjet printed things, in my experience, which it will smear) with no harm done after it fully dries.