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  • The 2017 Essential Phone has never been beaten in terms of aesthetic design

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  • I was legitimately sad when LG left the market. It feels like nowadays, the only company left making "high-end phones at mid-range prices" is Motorola, while every other company is following the Apple/Samsung trend of charging literally whatever they can get away with.

    We used to live in a world where a company would make a product "X", calculate how much it costs to manufacture, factor in a 30 percent profit margin to cover reinvestment into the company, and call that the "price".

    Now, largely thanks to Apple, the "price" is whatever the marketing department can convince people to pay with advertising heavily on FOMO and "coolness", regardless of the manufacturing cost. It's a shitty way to do business (in my opinion). LG was one of the last of the good ones sticking to the old ways. Now it's just Moto.

  • True Community/Revolution/whatever MIGHT require you to suck it up and try to build bridges to MAGA family members

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  • Might is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentance.

    The reality is, in the vast majority of cases, it's simply easier to just wait for them to fucking die. It won't take long since a lot of them are already old. And it saves my mental health in the mean-time.

    Bridges only matter when we're talking about opinions.

    A belief in basic human rights is not an opinion; it's a non-negotiable requirement in order to take part in a civilized society.

    We need to stop talking about building bridges with bigoted fucks who think that "all brown people should be shot" is just an opinion like "I like pickles".

  • I'm good, thanks

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  • I'm intelligent, but not nearly intelligent enough for whatever this is...

    Is this just another way of talking about the Teleological framework of time (like the heptapods in Arrival)?

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • Around here, we just call that freezing rain.

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  • Oil rigger. I'm simply not built for that level of manual labour day in day out. I wouldn't last a day.

  • Alex Honnold completes live Netflix free solo climb of Taipei 101 without safety gear

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  • Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online

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  • Do these stupid companies actually think that any of these products aren't just going to be used by perverts?

    There are legitimate professional use cases: for example, imagine a consulting doctor looking in on what another surgeon is doing and offering opinions as the operation goes on. Or same thing with engineers.

    But I can't think of a single consumer use case that isn't designed for perverts.

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • Canada.

    "Frozen drops of rain" makes sense too. I picture it as, "Imagine a raindrop hits your windshield, and instead of thunking like a raindrop, it's kind of splats like a tiny tiny snowball." That's sleet.

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • Come to think of it, I've never really bothered thinking about what sleet is. I've always just put it in the "you know it when you see it" category.

    If I pummel my brain for what I would describe it as, I'd say it's wet, heavy snow in a wind. Like "really soft hail" I suppose.

    But yeah...I never bothered. Interesting thought experiment for myself.

  • Picked up a copy of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for XB360

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  • PC Version was hard as hell. I was shocked by how differently designed the XBox 360 version was. It was two entirely different games for the most part. I remember back then that was the first time I had seen that sort of purposeful disparity between what was supposed to be the same game on both platforms.

  • Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

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  • If I remember correctly, it was demolished along with the wing above it in order to build his "ballroom". Now they're rebuilding it.

  • Trump-appointed judge 'quickly' blocks admin from destroying evidence in new DHS killing

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  • They...will...do...it...anyway....

    Fuck it's so frustrating watching one side pretend the rule of law still means anything.

  • ‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war

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  • It already is a civil war. Only one side is fighting it though, while the other keeps saying "wait until the mid-terms"

  • the more things change

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  • These two photos (to me) point to something even more monstrous in modern times.

    For all of its barbarism, the guy on the left still at least had the courage of his convictions to show his face while commiting his crime. He believed enough to not hide his face like a coward.

    ICE is just effectively keyboard warriors with guns in the real world. They have the balls to pull their shit only so long as they can stay hidden and safe behind masks while doing so. A bunch of fucking cowards who would immediately piss themselves if they were one on one and unmasked.

    I'm not going to defend any nazi, especially the guy on the left. But at least nazi's used to have the courage of their convictions. Nowadays it's just barely literate dude-bros looking for a mask so they can execute people.

  • Can you use Linux today without the terminal?

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  • Yes.

    After god knows how many years now of being on Linux exclusively, I tend to look at the terminal (commands in general) as a convenience more than a necessity. Meaning that in a lot of cases, knowing a command and quickly typing it to start an update (for example) is just faster and easier than pulling up the GUI every time.

  • Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

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  • "Industrial Resilience" is important. But its something that can be built over time as long as there continues to be the will to do so.

    The far bigger threat right now isn't there fact that we are dependent on foreign manufacturing, its WHICH foreign manufacturing.

    Right now we are subjugated economically by a psychopathic autocracy to the south. Wev need to take whatever measures necessary to get out of that and with about after, after.

  • Removed

    NO JUSTICE, NO WORK!

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  • I'm not saying this isn't what needs to happen. Shut everything down, for sure.

    But the reality is that Trump and his Gestapo don't give a shit if a blue state slows to a crawl from a walkout. Their not smart enough to grasp that blue states actually contribute more.

    In their brains, blue state walkouts just means blue state chaos, which they love.

    Until it starts hitting GOP states, the assholes in charge won't pay attention.

    The US is already in a civil war. But only one side is actually fighting it.

  • Mission accomplished

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  • She's gorgeous.

    Is that many tattoos to my taste? Not totally. But its not her job to be to my taste, or his taste, or anyone's taste. That doesn't make her not gorgeous.

    I hate conservative men. Like WTF.

  • Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?

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  • I'll give my smart-ass answer first before deliving into my serious answer.

    Smart-ass: Yes...tangible literally means "possible to touch". So yeah...digital stuff isn't, by definition "tangible" in the way that records, cds, etc... are. You've never "touched" an mp3 file. You've never "touched" a streaming movie like you handle a DVD or a VHS tape.

    Now...to my serious answer: I've long been working on what started as an article, became a treatise, and is now morphing into a non-fiction book about that very concept. Still a very long way to go, and with my stop-and-start creative blocks, it may never get done, but I felt it was important to write it all down while I still have a functioning brain. (I'm not getting any younger)

    I've added to it for years every time a new thought about it comes to me, talking about what I call "Patina" (the tendency for mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses to age individually, almost developing a personality as they age) and equating it with the Japanese concept of Tsukomogami (the idea that physical things gain a soul after 100 years)