I know these things perform very well in general use stuff, but I can't believe they still start at 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage.

I bought the base level MBP in 2017 and it had those same specs. That's 7 years ago.

It's not about the bubbles. This is about enriched messaging: getting typing notifications, read receipts, being able to send high quality images/video, etc.

When people with iPhones message each other, these things just "work." But when they message an android user, it's a vastly degraded experience. Just the other day my wife's cousin sent her a video and it's this unwatchable piece of shit; compressed to hell and so low-rez it would give a RealPlayer stream from the 90s a superiority complex.

It's a really great movie. Godzilla is terrifying in it and the human elements are as good as any drama.

The fact that this was made for 15 million dollars, roughly half the cost of a single She Hulk episode, is insane and really asks Hollywood "Wtf are you doing?"

Giving up on Windows phone was not a mistake. The real mistake was that windows phone was entirely reactionary. By the time it came out, apple and android were already too dominant. App developers weren't interested in such a small market, and companies like Google weren't going to make windows phone versions of popular apps like YouTube unless they would lose out on significant traffic.

The mistake happened in 2007 when Steve Ballmer made fun of the iPhone and dismissed it completely. He should have seen the writing on the wall of where consumer tech was headed.

They last longer, use vastly less power, and have light that's just as good if not better than incandescent bulbs.

I haven't verified this at all, but I have a theory. Here's three key pieces of info to know beforehand.

- The CEO was not a billionaire. I've seen many people claim he was, but he _seems_ to have had a net worth of around 12 million. Certainly rich, but hardly anything close to a true billionaire
- Steel is the preferred material for these types of subs, because it's very good at handling the constant compression and expansion that would be happening at the molecular level. However, steel is heavy.
- Carbon fiber is light

Had they built this sub with the correct materials, it would have been heavier. It being heavier would have increased costs: they'd need a larger support boat to carry it out to sea, more fuel, possibly more staff on the boat, stronger/heavier support equipment, etc. So, in short, my theory (and I want to stress, I haven't seen this verified anywhere) is that they went with carbon fiber because it would be cheaper in the long run.

Interesting theory. Can you provide an example country that is 100% private? Because I can provide many examples of countries with strong social programs that have high qualities of life.

I used Evernote for many years, but ever since they switched to a unified web-based codebase it's just been awful. It just feels so... slow and bloated. You can just tell it's doing an API call for every little thing.

It also nags you so much. It brings up a pop-up window every time there's an update (like once a week), and even when I was paying for their mid-tier service it still liked to constantly remind me that I could upgrade to its next tier.

I switched to Obsidian and I'm so much happier (even if their sync service is a bit overpriced in my opinion)

Do you guys not have phones?

When I first heard about the "Metaverse" back when it was announced, I was actually kind of excited. I imagined it as protocols and standardized technologies that would allow any org or individuals to add to it, just like how the internet works.

Since then, I've been disappointed because, as far as I can tell, Facebook sees the Metaverse as a glorified VR chatroom for... work meetings, or something. And the media has turned "Metaverse" into a buzz word that they'll slap on anything 3D.

So, I'm glad to see that tech like this "USD" exists.

If Domino's was brave enough to sell pizzas in Italy, then you can be brave enough to ask your boss for that raise.

There were some misunderstandings with my original post. Cholesterol is manufactured by livers. So if you eat something that had a liver, you'll be ingesting cholesterol. I wasn't implying that only a liver will contain cholesterol, but I can see the confusion.

And yes. Eating cholesterol can raise your cholesterol. Anyone who claims it doesn't is citing bullshit studies funded by the meat industry. Now, if you already have high cholesterol, eating more doesn't necessarily raise it more, which is how these studies made it appear that eating things like bacon didn't raise cholesterol.

The real culprit in raising cholesterol is a diet high in saturated fat, and these fake meats can have high saturated fat, too.

Go to Burger King and order an impossible whopper. You'll find it's pretty much indistinguishable from a real one. And it'll have the benefit of zero cholesterol (cholesterol only comes from livers) and a little bit of fiber too (fiber only comes from plant matter).

Your approach makes sense for anyone who cares that strongly about privacy, but I just don't care enough. It all just boils down to a bunch of IDs stored in some DB tables with literal tens of billions of rows, that no human is ever going to even look through.

Additionally, Youtube's generic front page is horrible and its recommendation algorithm is amazing. I love when it recommends things I didn't even know I wanted to see that I would have never thought to search for.

GameStop had a once-in-a-lifetime stock value infusion, and this is what they come up with?