I bought two nose hair trimmers to earn such a description. Yes, in have a very hairy nose (inside). I kill most nose hair shavers in a year or so.

It is OK to say you bought a dildo on amazon. I promise, you’re among friends.

buys improbable number of cats

“Has a cat”

Ha ha bitches, I have TWO cats! Suck it big data, you LOSE!

I have a seven year old Volvo.

It cannot be repaired at a mechanic beyond simple mechanical things. Everything else has to pass through a Volvo dealer because they locked down their software (Vida) and regular mechanics COULD buy it, but it would cost them several thousand dollars a year for the subscription. Unless they are going to specialize, it’s not worth it. I cannot drop my car off at joe’s garage.

There’s no real difference between ICE and electrics in that regard. You can still do basic repairs to an electric like brakes, tires, suspension, etc.

Hate to tell you this, but cars have been like this for about 15 years now.

Been a long time since ol Joe at the gas station could fill the tank and tune your carburetor with a screwdriver.

An apple user using graphene?

You are a funny person.

(let them waste their money maybe they will go away)

Damn, i bought a quarter zip and a vest. WTF.

I’m not going to say it’s brilliant, but if they can stick computers out there that get unlimited free solar power and free cooling courtesy of the icy death vacuum of space, is it really that bad?

If they could make it operational and scale, no more fucking stupid terrestrial data centers eating water and power here. Let them try it. They got plenty of money.

Y’all need Firefox + ublock and a different search engine. I havent seen an ad since 2007.

I mean, don’t put it on the network. Now it is dumb again. Mostly. Probably not, ok fine, so just don’t buy one with that shit in it.

The reality is that these tools are not going away. Thinking that will happen is not realistic.

They’re part of the deal now. People who refuse to use them will simply become obsolete. It starts in technology, but it will quickly move around.

Thinking you can just avoid it isn’t practical. It is no different from cars displacing horses and computers displacing typewriters.

Think of how absurd it would sound if you came across someone who refuses to use a computer and only a typewriter.

I was listening to live ATC broadcast this evening for O’Hare ground control.

Jesus tapdancing Christ, no idea how they do it.

All you hear is a steady stream of instructions like “j1234, approach 10L and hold, then sierra sierra golf tango tango alpha” which are “directions” for pilots to taxi to a gate.

They are ripping them off at hyperspeed, no mistakes. The audio quality of some pilots is just terrible but somehow they know wtf they said. They have dozens of planes on the ground at a time, organizing the chaos of them all without blinking. In the hour I listened, I heard one dude doing it all, though I think there are two different ground controllers.

Planes blocking taxiways, pilots misunderstanding instructions, someone is taking too long to push back from the gate and they’re making changes and adapting on the fly.

Holy shit y’all.

Listen for yourself and try to figure it out. Audio: https://www.liveatc.net/play/kord1n2_gnd_in.pls Ground mapd: https://www.flightaware.com/resources/airport/ORD/APD/AIRPORT+DIAGRAM/pdf

Good luck.

Are we talking about the same apple that invented a new type of screw to keep people from taking their phones apart? The same apple that once people could get a trilobe driver, then made it so that generic replacement screens would not work because of some protection from non-apple hardware? Then went on to make sure that you can’t use non-apple parts in a laptop?