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  • What in the fuck is happening. I'm disgusted that we have this plague of racism in 2025.

  • Sorry, you're well out of the loop on this one, boss. Sideloading has been common practice for thousands? millions? of users since the beginning of android. There are plenty of apps not listed on Google Play - the ones that come top mind are Fortnight for a time and now the Epic Games Store app, and some VPN apps that couldn't offer features like ad/malware blocking in their Play store versions. Sideloading means downloading an executable install file (an .APK file in this case) rather than installing from Google Play. And they are SEVERELY limiting this ability next year.

  • Except that they immediately bumped their subscription prices that week by $2/mo. So they'll recover what they've lost on the backs of the subscribers who didn't take a stand. Nothing more American than that.

  • Everything I've seen about Starbucks has been them closing unioned stores, I suspect this isn't the win you're thinking it is.

    Target is still a good example... And frankly I can't come up with many more than just that, either. 😢

  • I mean, you identified the surprise - consistent ideology. That's not generally something anyone could accuse the right of lately.

  • I feel like all the responses you're getting are probably generally correct in the context of wind at/near ground level. But I feel like sticking a bunch of these in a JET STREAM is (maybe?) an entirely different matter. Or at least it could be, and I too am curious what the potential ramifications are.

    Jet stream winds are not just wind like any other, are they? Various jet streams have serious impacts on weather. If they harnessed and substantively bled off the Pacific jet stream, are there potentially grave consequences on the already variable El Niño and La Niña oscillation? If it could cause serious shifts in the weather, that would affect the livability of areas, create more dangerous weather conditions, and impact farming way around the globe from their wind farm installation.

    Maybe none of these are genuine scientific concerns, but frankly I don't trust China to do the science for the rest of us. Pretending these are genuine concerns, say they screw something up - it probably doesn't too seriously impact Chinese weather as they harness the jet stream winds right at the point where it leaves their airspace. But the ramifications for the rest of the world could then be dire, and I'm not sure that is remotely a concern for them. Could be an economic advantage even. Two birds, one stone.

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  • Certainly not - because it clearly worked, just not well. i.e., everyone else's daily experience with AI. There's no way it had a bad connection and was failing back to onboard processing on a device like this (because I bet it does zero onboard, 100% OTA), it just did a bad job. But convention wifi is congested and consistently garbage for sure. I simply meant that the long response times were likely the thing they should have been blaming on the wifi.

  • “We’re very happy to have announced the additional 200,000 unit capacity, in total $2.7 billion of additional investment which is going to give more confidence to the State of Georgia and our partners while all this visa and immigration issues get resolved immediately.”

    I thought they had already learned the hard way, this blows my mind. What are the chances that the South Korean government forced their hand instead of Hyundai making the decision here to back out?

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  • To be fair (not that Zuck has ever done anything to earn it), wifi at enormous events like that can be super flaky and slow. Thousands of people hitting it simultaneously and it slows to a crawl.

  • Right - and my point was that the whole rest of the world doesn't see or experience life in precisely the same way that you do. It is only stupid to make broad generalizations about the whole rest of the world from your tiny little corner of it.

  • Hey there, Rice-a-Roni - there are 8 billion other people in the world, so it's pretty bold and exceedingly stupid to speak for all of them. In fact, I'll bet there are literally a billion people in the world that buy their rice 25kg at a time. I know it is very common in Hawaiian households, I'd guess that there are more Hawaiians buying 25kg bags of rice than there are Hawaiians buying 1 kg bags.

  • It's already pretty self-explanatory, what specifically don't you get?

  • Ah I seriously didn't get it either. Although I think maybe the joke was not that you broke your neck, but that you'll be down there forever because it's impossible to find a coin on a pool floor and you'll drown trying.

  • That guy is Nathan Fillion. He is a treasure. Dr Horrible, The Suicide Squad, Superman, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm always happy when he pops up.

  • I had someone walk in to my work one day and call my name. I turned and greeted the customer and asked what I could do for them. They confirmed my name again, which they had correct, and then said "you went to XHS right?" Confirmed my graduation year even. "Uh, yeah... That's right?" I said with a confused look on my face.

    I just stood there befuddled. I stared at this dudes face for seemingly an eternity. No recognition. I couldn't figure it out. For some reason, he didn't say his name and I was so flabbergasted that someone who lived 4 states away, that I apparently went to school with, happened to be on vacation in MY town and walked into MY store... that I didn't even ask. I was super busy, and suddenly confronted with utter confusion, just frozen. And this dude's just like, "well, see ya" and I have NO FUCKING CLUE WHO HE WAS. It's an interaction that haunts me still.

  • I loved it too. The m7 was excellent, then the m8 managed to level up everything great about the m7. Amazing phone.

  • Yeah - for years it was a primary deciding factor for me when it was time for a new phone - HTC One m7, HTC One m8, Moto X Pure Edition all had front facing speakers. I think by the end there were simply no longer any options though... And now 10 years later, they're still pointing the speakers at the damned ground. 😿

  • Phablets, lmao. You invoke the ancient magicks.

    I'm so far on the opposite side on this one though - I always have preferred large screen devices and today, I ADORE my folding pocket tablet most of all. 😍