Not all cd players had an accessible lens. A car deck had a slot insert and there was no way to get at the lens without disassembling the whole thing.

Computer CD players also had a tray that extended so the lens was mostly hidden.

Boomboxes and portable CD players had pop up lids where you could see the lens, but there were probably an equal number of players where you couldn’t access it.

Age discrimination is illegal in the US for almost every job, there are a handful of exceptions.

Some states allow you to update your birth certificate after a legal name change. It’s definitely not universal, and much less likely in red states.

Shift-A and Shift-I to append at the end or insert at the start.

Once you know the system, it’s much easier to do everything without having to take your hands off the keyboard to use a mouse.

Literally the only thing I code in at work. Have done so for decades.

Can’t stop, won’t stop.

I write code every day at my job. I use vim.

It does everything I need it to do, and it works exactly the same way on every system I touch, and functions the same way since I started using it decades ago (aside from being able to use arrow keys now instead of hjkl)

If I HAVE to do any coding on Windows, I use notepad++.

Bush 2 wouldn’t have been reelected if it wasn’t for 9/11.

We wouldn’t have had the patriot act.

We wouldn’t have spent trillions on the wars.

There’s absolutely no way we would have ended up where we are right now if it wasn’t for 9/11.