The state of mobile phone market in Canada is so frustrating. Not only is our market dominated by 3 players who refuse to actually compete with each other, but we miss out on half the cool phones that the rest of the world gets too.

“Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.

Although it will be kind of funny if the 2026 Canada and Mexico games are packed while no one shows up for the US games.

That would explain why she’s willing to just toss the coffee in the back seat. Must have a side hustle doing razor blade disposal as well.

Else, Jaws can’t get you if you’re nowhere close to the sea

Until they release a Jaws/Sharknado crossover.

Osmosis

VPN becomes VPS and life goes on.

The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.

Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.

Many people do this.

Many people are insane.

The loyal cult is the result of Stockholm syndrome.

“Extensive manual reading” Really? Two seconds of skimming is extensive reading to this guy?

Maybe I’m the exception here, but this thing reads to me like a long list of non-issues. I specifically don’t want my phone fast charging. It’s bad for the battery. I’ll slow charge overnight. People having to keep track of multiple cables is a result of them trying to save $2 and buying the cheapest possible cables. Buy good cables with the highest data transfer speed you will require and forget about it. They are all backwards compatible.

The point of USB-C wasn’t to make everything compatible with everything always, the point was to get rid of proprietary connectors, and unify the 4 different USB connector types commonly in use.

Possibly out of the loop here, but what is Tabula Rasa?

I can at least see the logic in that one. No child is born deserving to die, but some adults have absolutely earned it.

If traffic is so fucked, you should just ride your bike instead. Sounds like you’d have a nice traffic-free bike lane all to yourself.

Because his boss refuses to buy a proper PR guy to get a decent photoshoot done.

This is one case where I don’t think the cell phone would drastically change the movie. He’d still be home alone dealing with the thieves as his mom worked her way back. He just wouldn’t be in the dark as to why he is alone.

I don’t control what the vendor marketing guys say.

If you’re expecting “technically correct” from them, you’ll be doomed to disappointment.

The only time I disagree with this is when the business is substituting “AI” in for “machine learning”. I’ve personally seen that work in applications where traditional methods don’t work very well (vision guided industrial robot movement in this case).