As soon as most Android boot loaders were locked, I jumped ship. If I’m in a walled garden, I’d rather the garden be as nice as possible. Also, I don’t really want a customizable computer in my pocket, I want a communications appliance. I have a computer at home to tinker with.

Don’t care about file management, files app works just fine for sneakernet trading with coworkers.

Don’t care about deep customization, I think this makes most phones look worse, not better. It also makes troubleshooting harder when my parents or kid have changed everything.

With regards to price, I find Apple phones are cheaper in the long run; I can buy a refurb phone for my mom and it’ll get updates for 5+ years. My experience with Android was 1 year of updates. That alone was enough to push me away.

Ultimately I just don’t care about phones anymore. They all are boring and I want the easiest family fleet of devices to manage. For me, Apple is easier. I can fuck with phones less and do literally anything else more.

Eternally playing Get Over It and falling just short of the summit.

It’s very cool to hate on common core.

Alabama and Mississippi teach common core math same as most other states.

That makes a lot of sense.

And yet the states with the highest scores are blue states that teach common core, and Alabama is consistently in the lowest 10-15 states.

The metric referenced in OPs meme is improvement, not raw scores. Alabama improved from really bad to below average. They’re not scoring better than NY or CA.

Alabama’s 8th grade math scores are literally 50th of the 50 states. The only lower grades are DC and PR.

Why couldn’t catenaries handle the power being fed into them? Seems like they’d be able to handle up to whatever the max power output for driving the train is.

I seem to remember some old story about electrified rail going over some mountains and the first run was actually net negative in terms of energy consumption because it was more downhill than uphill.

Pausing time would be worse than living forever. I could not imagine a greater torture.

Good luck going anywhere else. Also, if anyone finds out you’re immortal they’ll probably eventually gang up on you and torture you for ages because you’re a devil or some shit.

Fuck that. Dying is a gift. The impermanence of life is essential to enjoying it.

Sounds like absolute torture to me. Imagine how bored and frustrated you’d be after seeing generation after generation of humans repeat the same mistakes over and over.

That’s not how bacteria are transferred. They aren’t just wafting off the turd and going airborne. If you place a shit in the vicinity of a Petri dish in a sterile field, it’s not going to grow anything.

meanwhile, you can get an ounce of meth online for like $200

It’s mainly exercise, diet, and skincare.

Ain’t no way your FLAC albums are larger than uncompressed WAV. The only >2GB FLAC albums I have are massive compilations with 50+ tracks. They’re smaller than WAV, and that’s at max 700MB per CD. Spot checking, it looks like most of mine are ~500MB per album.

You’re not considering the iPod DAC which is higher quality than most cellphone DACs. Also, thinking 40GB fits 10 FLAC albums is stupid. This isn’t correct even for uncompressed WAV files.

I can’t imagine putting this much effort into complaining about someone using their media player of choice. People like vinyl and even cassettes because they’re a different experience, do you write up paragraphs about that too?

That’s regurgitation is how they transmit disease. Fuck mosquitoes.

Make like a tree and fuck off

“I know how to drive, Ricky.”

“You also know how to be stupid.”

World of Warcraft. Only played for a year back in 2010 but racked up an entire month of time played on my main, not even counting my half dozen alts.

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) - over 1000 hours logged in flight, countless hours spent learning and researching avionics, checklists, airliners, procedures, hardware, software addons, etc.

Two words. Fuck, pretty easy to understand. Off, really easy to understand. Fuck off, Bobandy.