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Oooh, thanks for that game link, Cass! I am looking forward to trying it out in the morning.
Buying tickets online for a concert or airline usually involve weasely worded mandatory checkboxes luring you to spend money on added "insurance" or upgrades. In many cases it may be the only way to do the transaction, so I take my time and keep my temper under control.
I tend ignore buy online deals - worked over 5+ years at Reuters, tend to be leery of the entire experience.
OK, I got 100%. I am naturally suspicious of this kind of stuff and always double check these kinds of things. Good reminders, though.
Good morning, I guess I got my experience of these patterns back in the days of pirates downloads etc. It was always the small gray text link and not the fancy download button.

But of course sites like booking com also use these patterns like only one room left. Fortunately the EU is also going against these patterns
Driving a Tesla is a good way to train your eyes to see dim and tiny objects on a screen.

In our own products and when I was working with voting machines we've tried to remember that some people various troubles dealing with screens. Of course there is the choice of colors to try to deal with the various forms of color blindness. Font choice is important as well - for instance Airbus uses the B612 font on cockpit controls.

But there are other issues - I have real trouble at times getting my fingers to do what I want - I often simply miss a touch screen icon. And I'm even worse when using a stylus type device. I have a terrible time filling in those bubbles on ballots and sometimes trying to draw a line between an arrow head and arrow tail on those kinds of ballots. I can do better with a mouse (which I use with my left hand because I got carpel tunnel from years of using my right hand.)

https://b612-font.com/
Driving a Tesla is a good way to train your eyes to see dim and tiny objects on a screen.
Holy f*!! That's no way to have to drive a goddam car.
I've been forced to unwillingly participate in neoliberal extremism my whole life to stay alive. Advertising is bad enough. Deceptive practices like dark patterns reinforce my conclusion that my society values the lives of greedy liars and cheats over mine. I don't see it as a game. I see it as a cancer on civilization feeding on the already miserable.
That doesn't seem life good thing @Karl Auerbach .

I usually just uncheck/select no for everything. The quad negative gave me pause โ€ฆ
I think you can't not get 100% on the test... they prompted me on one item (enhanced support seemed to me like something some customers might want to buy) and I still got 100.

This cracked me up tho... I see what they did there

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@Lisa Stranger in the vast majority of instances the only thing "enhanced" is the vendors' revenue.
Still breathing.
Forgot today was a holiday, and that my appointment is tomorrow.
Fingers crossed that my health insurance issue is resolved.
The linked 'test' reminds me of the "security training" I had to take at work. Those were all very simple, straight forward options.
None of the reversed slider controls, "click if you want to not cancel your sub" sort of stuff. Tiny grey boxes to opt out, or way down at the bottom, below the submit button, a filled checkbox to subscribe to added services, or "newsletters".
Or some of my all time favorites, where you download a popular 'FOSS' application that has been clickwrapped with added junk. Sometimes the 'custom' install option would allow not installing the xtra PUA stuff. Not 'reallllly malware, but who doesn't need some browser add-ins or DNS redirectors?
People are pretty simple so that's the best kind of trainingโ€ฆ
Having a bit of a go-round with Comcast... sigh. Internet is very weak, none of the solutions working, so the guy upgraded me to a higher speed plan (which I really didn't want) instead of resolving it. Now it's still in-and-out and when I call customer service they say "did you know that most problems will resolve themselves in 2 hours?" instead of letting me talk to someone. GRRRRR. This is their version of this game. I want to call and tell them to put me back on the $10-a-month cheaper plan, and make any of it work!
Also, we have vaiantly struggled up to 11 F, after starting the day at -1. Stiff breeze from the NW makes the windchill -4. Think this is about as good as it gets for today. Worse expected tomorrow. ๐Ÿฅถ
i tend to check sites as carefully as i can, and if something is off, just close the window/tab and start over, or someplace else.
WOW! @Cass M ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ What a GREAT game! I'm off to spread it to a few people.
Here in Santa Cruz the forecast for next Saturday calls for snow. Snow? In Santa Cruz? Is Hell freezing over?

I do kinda hope to see snow here - we need the water, it's been dry. But even more is that I am such an emotional wreck with this on-off-on-off cycle of pain and bleeding and infection that I put such distant events, such as next Saturday, into a fantasy realm of the hypothetical.
@Karl Auerbach I assume (at least hope) somebody in the medical profession is keeping an eye on that? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ UTIs suck.

Last I heard before I gave up news over the return of Satan, Houston was forecast to get 8" of snow, with measurable amounts all along the Redneck Riviera. Gainesville might even see a coating of ice.
@Lisa Stranger - Thanks for the warning. Evey medical person I have seen so far has stressed the need to keep things clean and sterile. I've gone through a lot of alcohol wipes this last week. And I see the urologist in about 2 1/2 hours.
Oh, good. Hopefully you'll come home minus the plastic tube!
Nope, still have the tube for another week. But I start a new drug to prepare for the removal.

I've been imagining the removal process. I've got two images, the first is that I hold my nose and close my mouth while the doctor gives me a very tight squeeze. The second involves a tow rope and a winch.
Ooof. Snow in Houston. Now, that's something.
I saw the videos and picture of New Orleans, crazy
We've been watching BBC Earth all day. It might be safe to flip on a weather channel by now... yesterday morning they were blathering about iNaUguRaTiOn WeAtHeR ๐Ÿ™„
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