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That iPhone 8 (plus) was like 750. So like a hundred a year. I literally am the person than spends less on phones out of my entire social circle.

Edit: also I’ve had three android (not so) cheap phones—one handed down to me, previous to the iPhone 4, that I had for a few months. And my current and former work phones, provided by my company—and hated (still hating the current one) the hell out of them, utter trash full of ads and uninstallable spyware.

I ain’t no apple fan, but my old iPhone 8—which is now my sister’s work phone since one year ago—just received a security patch a couple months ago, eight years after it was bought. And yes I went with an iPhone 16, because only two phones in 14-15 years (iPhone 4, 8, and now 16) is something no other brand can currently compete with. Unpopular here, I know, but I don’t care about a jack port (my android work phone has one and its only function is to build up pocket dust), or sideloading (I don’t even ‘sideload’ much in my laptops, almost everything comes from the official repositories).

I really hope the phone landscape changes and, in six years or so, I can buy a proper FOSS phone, but I’m not holding my breath.

Who would build those robots? With which materials? No one is going into the mines or into a soul crushing factory production line if their needs are already met. If this survey were made to retail workers, for example, I bet it would be much closer to 100%. We aren’t getting ubi ever, not in our current society, because it literally would collapse in a few days without miserable, desperate fuckers that can’t afford quitting slowly killing ourselves to make the rich richer.

People here saying single handle faucets must have much better ones than what we’ve got where I’m from, no fucking chance of getting the same temperature again after shutting it. And the middle of it is extremely sensitive, it goes from 10% to 90% in like the middle two millimeters, and I think the pressure of the hot water overcomes the cold’s so you have to turn a bit left and then right again to stabilize the temp.

For my shower, which is the one that matters most for me, I got a thermostatic one—you set the temperature on the right handle and the flow on the left one, and that’s it, perfect temperature forever. Even if someone flushes, which only happens when my sister is visiting because she doesn’t understand boundaries, it doesn’t change one whole degree for more than a second, only the flow is be affected.

As a side note my grandma’s bath tube some 30+ years ago (it had probably another 30 or more) had two handles for hot-cold, left and right, and then another two for the shower-faucet flow, up and down. It wasn’t as fine tuned as my modern one, but worked quite well. You would only open or shut without touching the proportion of hot/cold.

No secret at all that the rich are selling Europe piece by piece to the best bidder, with the blessing of our rulers.

That article only cites deaths due to autoerotic asphyxiation, which I haven’t seen or heard portrayed in porn, and says that are mostly men, which contradicts the stated objective of preventing harm to women. Have you even read the source you linked or the article, mate?

Well, where are all those deaths caused by choking during sex because of porn? I would bet that many more visits to er are caused by trying to emulate the sex in the bath tube while having a couple wine glasses around scenes so typical in ‘romantic’ movies/shows, than by all the kinks seen in porn together.

Parents should, and I’m aware many do, tell their children that tv, movies, porn… are meant to entertain, not teach, and they are very different from how real life things work.

Only porn allowed will be missionary position?

No. I think it’s a step by step approach, that will go further than that. After only missionary, they’ll make the actors get married before having any sex, all under the blankets and as clothed as possible, no condom or pulling out allowed either, and at the end of the scene it has to show the beautiful baby born nine months after. No gay porn, of course, or trans, interracial, more than to people (man™️ and woman™️)… sex is for procreation! How you dare enjoying it, you sinner!

I recognise their username. It’s half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.

It has many variations: ‘hijoputa’, ‘hijo de puta’, ‘hijo de la gran puta’, ‘hijo de la gran putísima’, ‘hijo de mil putas’…

It does. I’m posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.

fortune cookies, crab rangoon, and General Tso’s chicken

The other commenter specified ‘European’,as to remind that Europe is included in the term ‘western’, and I haven’t seen any of these here.

Also I think that calling a style developed by Chinese people, that had learned to cook from other Chinese people (and so on for many generations) ‘100% American’ is debatable at least.

I think you’re right with the kebab, I literally don’t know a single person that calls them ‘doner’, it’s always just kebab, and many kebab places where I live have dropped the doner as well.

G’day curd nerd! The cheese and desist thing was definitely a dick move by this Italian consortium, but iirc they later admitted that they had overstepped and ended in good terms with the Aussie youtuber.

they can’t force you to make food a specific way, right?

I see you’re not very familiar with the eu. They can and they do, if you want to call it some specific name they force you to do it in some specific way, or to source the ingredients or even make it in a specific place. It does make sense, in a way, but it also can get to ridiculous points some times.

Probably most of it during puberty, though it can still gain density in some parts until it eventually can start to fade, in some parts, or not, depending mostly on genetics.

When I get out of the shower it’s like trying to dry a wet towel with a towel.

I make my dog shake a couple times before getting out of the shower for this very reason, she finds it much more amusing than me scrunching her like a sponge.

Nta, and not shaming you at all op—I was twenty once too—this go for everyone that needs to read it: when someone tells you they’re ‘toxic’, believe it (and fucking run).

I call them ‘…a brick, a power brick… a charger, no, the part you plug…’. Lmao, I carry one of these, whatever its cursed name is, with me literally everywhere I go so I don’t have to ask for the thing. I feel you sib.

See also: portable USB memory.

Edit: unless you need another thing! A power bank? ‘This?’ Taking out a brick. A usb-c cable? ‘What?’ Phone charger? ‘This?’ No, the cable… thanks… sorry this is usb-a I’m gonna need the brick as well… ‘the what?’ Smh.

The food scarcity is certainly not due to technological limitations, but we very much can’t create food for free. The food you eat is produced by the very hard work of many people, most (probably all) of them severely underpaid. In a fair world it will be these people the ones receiving the fruit of their labor instead of some rich bastards, but I don’t think food will be cheaper, maybe even the opposite.

I understand the question, maybe you don’t understand how the world works.

How exactly is free food (or free anything) achievable within our current technological level?