So what? That goes for every movement. If you think there are universal definitions for social adjustments you're mistaken. Try to define a hippie. You will not get consensus on the text, but, like "woke", you probably know it when you see it.

When I hear "woke" I mentally swap in "new-fangled". And it works pretty much every time. I think the word is scarier for some folks when it describes change more than it does a wider scope of acceptance of others.

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

I agree. Make liberal use of the "Don't recommend this channel" feature, keep your feed tidy, and there's amazing stuff out there.

Be your own advocate. Ruthlessly police rabbit holes, and watchdog the quality of your thought.

And watch funny pet videos once in a while. They're a mental palate cleanser, with little down side.

It's easy to rag on Gen-Y/Z for attention problems and the like, but the ecosystem that birthed them was built by... us. The Gen X and millennials took the technology and built the capability-destroying entities on top of it.

I can't blame them for the world they were born into. We're beta testing a whole new way of being on them. And they'll pay the price. That sucks. So while it irks me to see people failing at the basics of communication, I cannot ascribe it to personal failings on their part.

"Honey, I'm effectively monogamous. 88% of my sex comes from you."

"Officer, I'm effectively sober. Less than 12% of my blood is alcohol."

"No, this is a ham sandwich. It is not a shit sandwich. It's 88 percent ham, and only 12% shit."

Just a name for a phenomenon. We call whatever's causing it "dark energy". Nobody's claiming it's a definitive, rigorous explanation. Until we know better, it's as good a name as any.

I miss the old days when the Windows installer provided that. How else are you going to cripple your machine by neglecting to uncheck a box while installing a pdf reader?

What makes you think the batteries produced locally will be cheaper? I don't think there's any reason to think that.

I take issue with your characterization of Trump as a liar. I don't think he qualifies.

Rather, I think that when something comes out of his mouth, he truly believes it, and then it's gone. There is no loop back after the fact that makes him even remember it, or that would make him realize he had said something inaccurate. And he does not internalize any information he doesn't like. Those mechanisms are broken.

So because he believes what he is saying when he says it, even if just for that moment, he's not lying. He's just wrong.