Before anyone rushes to replace their phones my Pixel 5 is nearly 5 years old, still on original battery (would be on at least 1200 cycles) and is presently sitting at 92% and claiming 1 day 11hrs remaining. Off the charger since 9:45 this morning and used for streaming music to my car while I was driving earlier. It still easily holds over 24 hours charge in my usage, so if I forget to charge it at night it’s usually around 40% in the morning and I can plug it in sometime in the morning to top up. Perfectly useable after almost 5 years, and this is pretty normal for Pixels in my experience.

Love the new EU measurement standards but per other people’s comments above they do not seem to mandate strict third-party testing, but rather rely on manufacturers submitting their results and adhering to the set test standards. This has not worked out well in the past, it should be mandatory third-party.

Cannot wait to see the return of user-replaceable batteries (thank you again, EU).

No I’m saying you’re not allowed to be drinking alcohol while you drive. Which you are in Mississippi.

USA freedom warriors ™ on Reddit say ‘that’s fine because they still have to be under the legal limit’. Unable to fathom that the idea of normalizing drinking alcohol while you drive encourages irresponsible behaviour amongst other negatives, beyond just staying under the BAC limit.

Ah yes, a piece of tape. Tape can definitely not be lifted and replaced, right?

I took a quick looks and seems like Mississippi has many drive through daiquiris bars also.

https://m.yelp.com/search?cflt=drivethrubars&find_loc=Gulfport%2C+MS

Good article. Shitty title. Also from the article, “The rise of settler militias is not a new phenomenon.”

They’ve been doing this for decades. What’s new is them being so emboldened by the rhetoric and backing of the Israeli police state that they’ve begun attacking IDF soldiers who they deem not supportive enough during their attacks on Palestinians, and raiding IDF bases for supplies and weapons.

I came looking for the meme pic, stayed for the story.

I remember reading years back that Mississippi is the only state where it’s legal for the driver to drink and drive (as long as they keep it below 0.08). Multiple defenders on Reddit said its safe because its still below the legal limit.

Couldnt be related, could it? Nahhh

https://dui.drivinglaws.org/resources/can-a-passenger-drink-alcohol.htm

USA is definitely the most car-brained nation, but I don’t think that miles-travelled alone stacks up when comparing states.

As an example for 2022 data from FHWA it shows that Mississippians drove 17,699 miles average, while Minnesotans drove more, at 17,887 miles. Yet Mississippi has more than triple the road fatalities.

Even if you take Mississippi as an outlier, many other states are well over double Minnesota, with similar miles-driven: South Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma.

Mississippi has drive-through combo shops: liquor store / DMV / KFC.

Saves time on your way to and home from church.

The USA started cracking at the foundations when McCarthyism began, demonizing an ideology that was ultimately about sharing resources. You can draw a straight line between the Red Scare and the anti-socialism proudly shouted by modern Republicans and the MAGA movement today.

For anyone who identifies as conservative, this rabid vilification of socialism has rotted away at even the idea that the government should exist to service the people, let alone advocating for it. So instead they advocate for tearing it all apart and hold firm to the ‘rugged individialism’, “the Free Market © will provide” nonsense that has never worked as far back in history as we can peer.

Its so toxic, and it serves only the most wealthy. It’s gone so far and for so long now that I don’t see the lessons being learnt and course correcting with words alone.

I legit do not understand your comment.

My Aussie mate back in England told me that the British killed the First Nations and took their land,

With you this far. Yes your Australian friend (who was in England at the time) told you that the British killed the first nations people and took their land.

like his ancestors just turned up here to find swathes of unoccupied land and were like “crikey, what’s been happening here!” and immediately started doing Acknowledgement Of Country at the start of every office meeting.

Now you’re saying your Australian friend was foolish to ideate that his ancestors just turned up in Australia to find swathes of unoccupied land… and then start making Acknowledgement of Country statements.

First of all - how is this not contradictory to the first part of your analogy? He didn’t ideate that.

Second, the Acknowledgement of Country statements didn’t start until 200 years after colonisation… So this is really disingenuous representation you make of your “Aussie mate’s” position.

They can. The newer ones have mandatory ‘drum clean’ cycle every 20 washes or so that runs hot with no detergent and helps to kill and blast out any potential accumulating grime/mould.

So far so good with ours (midrange Samsung front loader). Not expecting it to match the record of of last one, which was an LG and ran for 20 years, but so far it’s been great.

Lost four installations at my house, and I have Microsoft certifications professionally so I’m fairly invested.

Likely to be another few as I move the rest of my immediate family over to Linux slowly also.

You’re on the ‘privacy’ community of an open source and federated alternative social media system designed to avoid corporate control and surveillance capitalism - and you’re like “wtf everyone here is very privacy focussed and Linux nerds”.

Do you complain about sand at the beach?

Its a large organization. There’s Al Jazeera, and then there’s its Al Jazeera English subdivision which operates with widely different team. The latter has a reputation for high quality journalism and has won multiple awards for it - the former exhibits more bias in its reporting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_awarded_to_Al_Jazeera_English

I would say the BBC is no more trusted and should not be any more trusted than AJ English. Each have biases and each are capable of very high quality investigative journalism.

We’re legit too dumb to even build the Terminator or Matrix apocalypses IMO. They both rely on creating genuine artificial life.

Devastatingly, we might even be too dumb to get to an Idiocracy future. It’s set in ~2500 and the earth is still pretty well habitable.

I think short term it’s more Handsmaid’s Tale in the US, and globally heading for perhaps Elysium.

Good times, good times.

An artist chanting words on a stage at a show… Isn’t this that freeze peach those Republicans claim to support to their dying breath?

I don’t see how calling for the death of an institution that’s openly committing warcrimes and even admitting to them, is really that outlandish, especially for an artist during a performance.

Completely fair. When your neighbour is as untrustworthy and aggressively expansionist as the Russian government I would line the border with mines too.

I’m pretty sure vinegar strokes is old English slang, and that would seem to align with this British online definition of it predating the appearance on The League by 2 years.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Vinegar_Stroke

P. S. I will now have a totally different understanding of the song “Turning Japanese” everytime I hear it

Guess I have to spell it out.

Communism: ownership of the means of production by the people.

Capitalism: ownership of the means of production by private entities.

Your definition was vague enough to fit both, which was funny because you gave it while patronizingly stating how easy it was to define. Doubling down by patronizingly reciting what the word ‘definition’ means is one way to go I guess.

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