People are posting about wanting to run away to the woods but I think it’s important to remember that cities can be quiet.

Not that we should all move to Delft, but if we built infrastructure for people instead of cars cities wouldn’t be so fucking loud.

Brange New Worlds

I mean they have been talking about a “sovereign wealth fund” (yeah, right), they could use that as a cover to acquire oil companies and then pump all the money into their own pockets.

Not to mention roller coasters. Two of the largest thrill parks in the US.

Among other things, yes.

Are you okay?

You gotta admit when someone you hate does a good thing. Good job Mike.

Land of the free my ass

What would you say is technology? Materials science isn’t technology, but what about things made out of the materials created by materials science?

You forgot to treat us like we’re stupid and close the thread as answered

The last time I used LibreOffice was admittedly a couple years ago but it was just plain clunky in comparison to MS Office. Word feels nicer to use than Writer, and Excel is more intuitive than Calc.

I’m glad that FOSS alternatives exist, but the older I get the more I turn into a boring normie. Office just works. I can collaborate on our budget with my girlfriend, I can pull up my resume and edit it on my phone, I can share files with my friends or with my boss or with my prof. And I don’t have to maintain any infrastructure to do that. I don’t have to set up a domain or any kind of server, it’s a couple hours’ pay. For a year of relatively seamless support.

Clearly having the word “league” in the name generates toxicity.

Nah, but the game got so much worse after it went free to play. I’ll never forgive Epic.

I imagine it’s a hell of a lot cheaper/simpler/more reliable in manufacturing to use the adhesive over screws, gaskets, and grease. It reduces both the BOM and the number of processes required to ship a unit, and probably fails less often, which means fewer RMAs. Plus it just plain takes up less space, which leaves more room for the battery.

I don’t like it, my favorite phone I’ve ever had was a Galaxy Nexus with a zerolemon battery that was bigger than the phone itself, but I can see why gluing everything together would be an attractive solution for the engineers who design these things.

Because we kept buying thinner and lighter phones, and gluing the battery in makes thinner and lighter phones with better battery life possible. As a convenient side effect glue creates a nice watertight seal that can make devices more water resistant.

Five states banned RCV this past election. You’ll never guess which group made that happen. But hey, both parties are bad.

The best search engine for my money is kagi. It’s $5 a month but there’s no ads, I get to block pinterest and I downranked fandom wikis. There’s even a fediverse filter.

Something tells me you already have an idea of what those words mean. I’m not here to have a debate, I just thought I could help with understanding the parent comment. I thought it was pretty obvious what calling Xi the CEO of China was implying.

It means the parent commenter thinks “socialism with Chinese characteristics” looks an awful lot like state capitalism.

And how are we going to do that when we gave the keys to the party that banned ranked choice voting in 10 states?

“I am going to kill you” – death threat

“I am going to send you back to the lobby” – funny Fortnite joke