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Ah, an individual of culture.

Fun fact, they let you tell them what kind of vehicle you have for the fuel efficient route. So when we told it we have a PHEV, it started recommending more surface streets than highways. Kinda cool.

Fascinating, I’ve found better results with Apple Maps lately than Google Maps. Which blew my mind, because Apple Maps was a complete joke when it launched.

It’s unfortunately not always covered by insurance. But it’s worth it if you can afford it.

The whole soundtrack is good, but:

Counterattack from Xenoblade Chronicles 2

I especially love the way it subverts the rhythm and modulates the key going into the final refrain around 3:45.

Besides the advice to seek OBGYN help, I strongly recommend couple’s therapy/counseling. For EVERYONE.

My wife and I started going to therapy when we were having some issues with communication and it was remarkably helpful. Getting to have a trained third party help work through your issues can assist with reframing and seeing things through one another’s eyes.

Like, obviously your wife isn’t the only one suffering here, and for her to tell you your feelings aren’t valid is outrageous, but she cannot see that from where she is emotionally right now. But getting her into a different setting and with someone trained to work through things like this may very well be able to get her into a state of mind where she can see how she’s effecting you. And at the same time, a therapist can help you to better support her by identifying the ways you already are and helping her recognize them, but also by helping her to communicate ways that you can better assist.

I genuinely cannot recommend couple’s therapy enough to EVERY couple. You don’t wait to bring your car into the shop until it’s broken, you bring it in for maintenance occasionally. Treat your relationship the same way and it’ll reward you, I promise.

I loved Clerks 3. I feel like people who set higher expectations for it (and for Reboot) did themselves a disservice.

Once, years ago when weed wasn’t legal here, my dealer had so much keef he was selling it by the gram.

Holy shit that was good bang for my buck.

Yeah, very similar but with steel-cut oats instead of cornmeal/flour. I’ve not had scrapple but I understand they’re very similar, both born out of German immigrants trying to stretch meat servings and save money.

Cincinnati seemed like a nice enough city though. Can’t think of any particular reason I’d ever want to go back

Clearly you’ve never had goetta.

The meme they’re satirizing directly, this one here, was comparing an $800 iPhone 16 with a $1300 Xperia 1 iii from three years ago.

It was pointed out several times that a few of the specs listed were things available on the iPhone 13 Pro, for a similar price point, also in 2021.

Comparing an older, more expensive thing to a newer, cheaper thing and claiming the newer cheaper thing users are missing out is disingenuous.

But of course the whole thing is stupid. People should just buy the phone they want that meets their needs and their wallets. My suspicion is that this type of behavior is the same as it was during the console wars: deep down people are insecure about their decisions and so they mock the decisions of others.

Breakfast.

People laughed about it when they announced that they were doing breakfast, but I love to try weird foods so I thought I’d give it a shot.

No joke, the Steak Breakfast Crunchwrap is my favorite piece of fast food breakfast. And (I’m mildly ashamed to admit) I’ve eaten A LOT of fast food breakfast in my life. It’s especially good if you ask for extra creamy jalapeño sauce.

Pretty much any time I have to be somewhere early in the morning these days—I’ve become quite lazy in my permanent work-from-home schedule—I motivate myself with Taco Bell breakfast.

Sure, in that the port is far more versatile than it needs to be for audio output. I’m not arguing otherwise.

both 16 and 16 pro have 128 GB base storage

I stand corrected.

That said, if you up the price to match the pictured Xperia 1 iii ($1300 when new in 2021), the iPhone Pro (13 in 2021) will have 512GB (256GB for the Pro Max at $1200). Fancy price for a fancy phone.

At the end of the day people should just buy whatever phone fits their needs and their wallets, and let others do the same. Android phones are great. iPhones are great. We’re living in the future and other than the dystopian tendencies, it’s pretty awesome.

Switching OS is a pain. And when you aren’t using it as your daily driver, it just makes it worse. It took me a couple of weeks of exclusively using iOS for it to become comfortable. If I were using Android at the same time I doubt it would’ve ever stuck and I’d still be annoyed rather than quite comfortable and agile now.

(Did i forget to mention that I want it to be an open connector? One that any vendor can make without Apple’s permission?)

Apple ditched Lightning last year. All iPhones from the 15 forward are USB-C.

So buy the $300 phone! If the iPhone isn’t your cup of tea you don’t have to buy it. You’ll sacrifice some stuff to get the price point that low, but if they’re things you don’t want or need, awesome!

That Xperia 1 iii pictured? $1300 new in 2021.

Depends on locale, I believe. I think the US version is eSIM only.

60 Hz in 2024 is crazy, aside from the fact that iPhones have been the same for the past 6 generations.

iPhone Pro has been 120Hz for a while now. Also bigger base level storage and USB. If you want the fancy specs you get the fancier phone.

paying for youtubers

Like it or not the platform is full of people trying to make a living independently producing content. Most of them are not making very much money. Watching with an adblocker means they aren’t earning any revenue, which is unsustainable. Watching with a Premium subscription means I don’t see ads and they get more revenue (even more so than ad-supported views).

Those people aren’t massive corporations. They’re independent creators. And generally speaking the content I watch on YouTube is content I want to support.

I’m not trying to say it’s like, inherently ethically wrong to watch YouTube without ads or Premium. But it certainly isn’t ethically superior.