Plus, if you had two-day battery life, when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.

But the companies want you to buy a new phone when the battery degrades.

Nah, it used to mean coke-addled idiot.

This is the rational opinion. Which should be enough to let you know that it’s not the majority opinion. Consumers, as a collective, are nearly braindead.

Yeah, corpos always claim that. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, we just changed some words, it doesn’t actually have any practical effect…

Yeah, well if it doesn’t then why bother doing it?

To Hori, a company that makes fairly decent third-party controllers. They likely had a reasonable expectation that the product wouldn’t be shit.

It disgusts me to defend Nintendo in anything but this just isn’t their fault.

Censorship is bad, but Facebook and X’s entire business models revolve around spreading content that is at once false and inflammatory, either just to create engagement or for more malicious purposes, and they reach a huge portion of the population directly, including children, teenagers, the mentally ill and other vulnerable populations. This requires a new understanding of accountability for spreading information.

I wouldn’t agree that it makes sense to hold a Mastodon instance responsible for what its users post, because they don’t have a financial incentive or the ability to promote misinformation at a massive scale. Twitter does. As Aristotle said, we must treat equals equally, and treat the unequal unequally according to the form and extent of their inequality.

It’s not an official Nintendo product.

I think that the point is “Rowling claims to want to protect cis women but even cis women would be harmed if she got her way, so nobody actually benefits”. Maybe it’s too charitable an interpretation but then again maybe not.

I squarely disagree. People who dedicate as much time and energy to making life worse for others as her are clearly living with intense negative emotions that they don’t know how to deal with in a healthy manner. Happy people don’t campaign against rights for others. Rowling is clearly a miserable and pathetic person. In the game of life, she’s losing to the average favela musician who has no money but loves their community.

The sea is not “a salt brine in itself”. You need a much higher salt concentration to pickle anything than what you find at any point in the ocean. Enough to prevent microbial life forms from surviving and consuming whatever it is you’re trying to pickle, which is why it doesn’t rot while pickling.

uBlock Origin works in Firefox for me. No ads on YT.

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Interest is an increase in price*. Lower interest isn’t a discount, it’s a smaller increase. Calling it a discount is like punching you instead of stabbing you and calling it nonviolence.

*In exchange for better payment conditions, but that’s not relevant to the point.

“Better” doesn’t tell the whole story. There are hundreds if not thousands of different technologies involved in making an electric vehicle, from material selection for the frame to batteries to all the different components, software, conforming, etc. BYD cars may be overall superior to Tesla cars (I don’t know if they are, both are above my budget) but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t two or three hundred little things that Tesla cars still do better.

All hail the orphan crushing machine.

Well, I suppose that’s a good thing.

How did she respond?

Yeah, I used to fool myself with that line too. Look, I know you don’t believe anything I said, but nonetheless you seem like a great person going through an awful time and I wish you the best. It does get better. Don’t give up.

So you still think life is worth living, even though you claim that it isn’t. Well aren’t you a happy little hypocrite? Welcome to the club.

The fact that you can’t see a difference is very telling. You drink to numb your mind. You take medicine to sharpen it and face your problems head on so you can solve them instead of avoiding them. If both approaches are the same to you, I really wonder why you choose to continue living every day.