They said “almost every issue”, so there’s room for other exceptions

If that app gives a better UI than the web view on mobile, I may switch. Thank you!

Yeah. I stopped commenting, when my main account had ridiculous amounts of karma. I still browse, but only logged out and only on old.reddit.com in a web browser.

More education than game: Mighty Math Number Heroes

More game than education: Putt Putt series

It takes a lot for me to accept something as fact, but I’m okay with living my life on a combination of likelihoods, reasonable plausibilities, and vibes

Apostrophes aren’t symptoms, they’re easily-corrected mistakes.

Apostrophes almost never pluralize nouns. So if you’re talking about more than one of something, you almost never need to add an apostrophe to make it plural.

Knowledge is power. Being neurodiverse doesn’t change that.

I’ve decided that gaming is my top solo hobby, so I dedicate the appropriate time to it. On most days, I can get a solid hour in, sometimes 2 if I’m caught up or ahead on errands and making food.

at the federal level I only vote for the candidates in my writing

I’m guessing you’re a Canadian that was using voice-to-text with your device’s language set to “US English”.

In American English, “writing” and “riding” sound the same. But not in Canadian English. Or British English, but for a different reason.

There’s a difference between a small penis and a micropenis.

Wealth taxes frequently do not bring in enough revenue which is a significant problem.

Yeah, they’re too low!

Thank you for this detailed response!

I have a Pixel, which has 5 years of security updates. That would probably get me up to the point where I’d want to change the battery. But I’m not convinced a newer phone would have anything for me other than better security updates, so it’d be hard to justify the price.

There’s also the fact that new phones can still have security vulnerabilities.

Since my phone is a flagship phone, I feel comfortable that if there are unpatched security issues discovered, they’d be caught by the public pretty quickly and I could make decisions from there…I just have to hope I’m not a “patient zero”, lol

I may have to get a “burner phone” for any sketchier activities to be safe, though…lmao

Is that a relatively reasonable course of action?

How often do older devices get breached, and is there any way to continue using an “older” device safely?

I feel like short security update lifecycles are a form of planned obsolescence.

With a battery upgrade after a few years, I could probably get over 5 years of life out of my phone, easily.

If you want to be the best person, offer to cover a babysitter (if you’re able).

Negative: Worse driving interactions (as a pedestrian/cyclist), especially post-covid.

Positive: People are generally more accepting of things, and people seem to be more comfortable sharing parts of them that make themselves different from the “norm”.

Of course, you’d then be paying monthly enough to cover a water heater’s entire replacement in one year! Haha

They’re in the business of providing (expensive) peace of mind. Not the business of providing good value for money.

Ontario, Canada. They’re elsewhere in Canada, but seem most prevalent here

Thank you for sharing. I don’t have direct personal experience with a rental water heater – I was thrilled to find out the place I bought was built before it became the norm, and none of the prior owners got duped into getting a subscription.

Subscriptions suck. The only exceptions are if you literally have too much money to care. But most people don’t have the money to throw around like that.

Where I live, there are water heater rentals. It’s essentially a hardware subscription.

They’re garbage.

For something that needs minimal maintenance and will last at least 10 years, you can rent for the price that you’d break even if you had a new one installed every 5 years.

People will pay thousands of dollars to have the privilege of throwing out the water heater and getting out of the contract. And then pay to buy a new one they actually own.

But some people like it because, yes, if there’s a problem, they come and fix it for you. Or give you a brand new water heater. That you’ve already paid for two or three times over!

The Oblongs

Metal takes inspiration from lots of different types of music. A lot of guitar solos have clear inspiration from Classical music