I've had... let's see... six iPhones. 3GS, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. I reliably skip a major revision. And I would skip more than one, except that my mother gets my last gen. So when her phone needs battery service after being 4 generations back, I shop for a new one. But this time, rather than get a new one, I paid Apple a hundred bucks each to refresh the batteries in my 13 and her 11.

The 13 is a damned good phone, and there is not a single thing I would upgrade. No compelling reason exists. Thinner? Who cares? I carried the brick in the 90s. I've toted around flip phones, blackberries, pagers... this 13 is pretty much perfect.

I'll give it up when I drive over it, or LTE becomes a thing of the past.

Side note: Apple tech cracked my screen separating the shell. For my $100 I got a screen refresh too. :)

Another way to go would be to keep burning jet fuel but purchase bricks of carbon from a sequestration company that captures it from the air.

I know there are more efficient types of carbon credits, like investing in cleaner energy in the first place, or increased efficient at the point of usage such as insulation, or preserving rainforest that would otherwise be developed.

The problem is all that gets complicated and thus subjective. Maybe carbon credits could work if it is based on a new type of 'coin' that is 1 kg of pure carbon that is chucked into an old mine.

That truly is the question for Apple. I don't know how they've held off smartphone commoditization as long as they have.

Spotify offers lossless... I recently enabled it.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2...

I agree with GP, it's a big kickback scheme for employees that have discretion over business expenses. Most types of card rewards are not reportable as income, which sweetens the deal even further. Score one for the upper-middle-class little guy, I guess...

Yep, the fire code is how you know the story is wrong.

Nice loaded language. Chances are the begging would consist of a brief glance, and maybe a gesture. But I went to the secondary link to check it out anyway.

I sheepishly asked a nearby employee "how do I leave" and they asked "did you buy anything" and I said no, they jokingly told for me to put my hands up and eventually fobbed me out the glass door.

About what I would have expected. Now it suck's that it's there, but how bad is crime that even stores with these scanners are at risk of closure due to theft rates? The Fillmore store comes to mind. "Theft and safety". Sounds like they're trying last ditch efforts to not bail on yet another neighborhood.

Meanwhile all the Safeway stores in my city still have self checkout and no visible security.

Tesla stock is only up a cumulative 6% from the peak it achieved exactly 4 years ago. That is not even close to keeping up with inflation - 18% over the same time period. So if just getting attention from a market flop is a strategy for driving up the share price, I guess it isn't working very well.

No, because the Americans are number 2 net emitters. They're worse.

Careful with your terminology. Chinese emissions are running triple those of the US.

If you think per capita matters, try asking the atmosphere to kindly retain less heat for the gas contributions by China, since more humans are clustered on the land mass.

The best measure for personal responsibility, but arguably the worst for actually doing a damn thing to solve the problem. Sparsely populated or isolated countries contribute little of the total while scoring high per individual.

Qatar per capital co2 is something like 900% of the global average, but they emit 0.3% of the world's total. Meanwhile, India is a well behaved and below average 40% per capita emitter while being the third largest emitter at 7.6% of the total.

Palau is the undisputed per capita king at almost 1300% of global average. But at 0.004% net, they could disappear tomorrow and not change things at all.

So if you want to actually change the trajectory, per capita is a red herring. You address the net offenders first. Sure, everybody should pitch in, but where you spend your outrage capital matters. It only serves to let some folks feel righteous indignation.

Yeah, nobody would consider this a story without the "billionaire" buzzword.

When my kids were small many of the wives from her church organized a summer school for all the kids. It was great.

I notice this whole thing is a zoning dispute and nothing else. Probably because the level of education being delivered is exceptional, since why wouldn't it be?

This is the only tool left in the entire Democratic toolkit. If you're saying that the Democrats should simply do whatever the Republicans say for the first two years, then I hope you were saying the same thing to the Republicans during the Obama/Biden terms.

If I thought the Democrats were being unreasonable, I'd say so. But their demand is specific, narrow, and reasonable. The fact that Trump just doesn't want to concede one iota should not put the onus on the Democrats to cave.

"Let the tyrant do as he pleases because he'll burn it all down to get his way" isn't reasonable or right. Anybody suggesting it is is just straight up happy to have a strong arm dictator at the helm.

You can make a simple statement like "nobody starves to death in America" and it offends people every time. They'll call you deaf dumb and blind yet they can never say who it is that's starving to death.

There are homeless people wandering around all over the place, they produce nothing, ever, yet somehow food just keeps materializing for them. In fact they hardly resemble truly destitute people actually starving around the world. I'm glad that's how it is here and wouldn't want it any other way but it's strangely difficult for people to "admit."

I think the single biggest reason is because demand for healthcare is basically bottomless and we have a lot of money to throw at it so we do.

I haven't seen any emphasis on this factor but look at the correlation between per capita GDP and per capita healthcare costs:

https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

That is a strong correlation!