somewhiteguy

"I'll get the water frisbee." ~The Dog

In general.

I completely agree. Shower, get the grime off, then soak in the bath. You get to enjoy the good oils and fragrance and you lower your UTI risk significantly.

Literature has been using asterisks, daggers, double daggers, etc. to denote markups, notes, corrections, whatever for centuries.

This is going to sound condescending and it's not intended that way, but read a book. Not a fiction, but non-fiction. Biographies that need research, science texts on detailed subjects, psychology with many interpretations, really anything outside of a storybook.

Have fun learning, and this is not a dumb question. You're on the right track.

But my google home tells me that the microphone is disabled when I say the magic phrase. How can you not trust that?

I already ditched Chrome and Gmail over this kind of garbage. Most, probably not, but the privacy and security minded will find alternatives.