People suck. Alot. And they lie. Worth a commercial insurance policy and an extra client a month to cover the cost.

Why? Insurance company has a "duty to defend" against claims. Their check, your lawyer in all the usual senses.

I'm marginally curious, can you give a high level example of the industry? Meritocracy is rare, anymore.

Haven't seen it in a minute, but it definitely used to exist.

I would 100% both use and pay for it - forces me to put a bit more thought into phone trees, making me less likely to get lost in them.

It's stupid af.... Unless you have responsibly charged your phone through your multi-day backwoods hike and it saves your ass.

Wouldn't suggest it as a frontline defense, of course, but... I can see a use case that saves a life, or at least a limb.

Hand-curated categories -> lists etc.

Think back to what Yahoo originally was. Drill down through categories, subcats, etc. to find what you're looking for.

Worked for the time, but for a technical query today would be an absolute non-starter

Long term, that's a decent idea - Mastodon and related platforms generally have a function similar to that, and it saves me scripting "Retrieve post, edit post, replace with '.'"

I'll go one farther - unless it's my doc, my wife, or my boss, I'm neither answering the call nor listening to the voicemail. That's what easily skimmable voicemail transcription is for...

I don't love the privacy implications of transcribed voicemail, ofc, but it's better for my own privacy/threat model than answering the phone to robots, scammers, and etc. It's also a hell of a lot better for my mental health, vs listening to them.

I used to do a chicken tikka masala in the crockpot - it froze well, and once I figured out what I was doing it became pretty effortless aside from the prep work.

My presentation never, ever looked like that, for sure. I was in workaholic mode back then, which was part of the appeal, and "didn't have time" for that kind of nicety. But it froze well in single-serve portions on top of the jasmine rice. Mic, stir, and go.

Makes me want to run to the store, but no way I'm picking up worthwhile spices at Ruler Foods. Sounds like it's time for me to make a Penzey's Spices order, tho, unless you have a better suggestion for that stuff.

The rest was all off-the-shelf in any random grocery store. Nice and easy, and the wife doesn't like it so I can go as heavy on e.g., cayenne as I want. Definitely a win...

Just spit out my tea all over today's todo list. Thanks, I needed that laugh.

Meh, different strokes for... Ah, hell, that wasn't quite the similie I wanted given the context...

Arguably, if that were the motivation, they could just as easily have landed on MissKey. That one is, to MK's credit, human :)

MK also seems to have originated in Japan, so the mascot at https://misskey-hub.net/en/ is not at all unexpected.

Edit: And pretty damn tame as these things go lol

Hemlock comes to mind, as with or without your proffered grain of salt, it can be eaten but is definitely not edible. Those defs are posted in a non-pedantic way above, incidentally.

Also, thanks for the chance to use the word 'proffered' in conversation, it's vanishingly rarely used outside the legal field.