anotherandrew

this is just personal experience but IIRC I seemed to have much better power consumption with 4G/LTE over anything before. 5G/5G+ is good too but that is likely with recent buildout in my area. Weak signal support I have a hard time gauging as the phone bounces back to LTE where I seem to still have good 5G service.

flat metal discs

symbolic

I see what you did there

every subscription I’ve had through Apple ends at the end of the billing cycle, not immediately.

and yes if you contact them right away they’ll refund you. had this happen a couple of times when I was a day off on when I thought the subscription was renewing.

you're not treating him as a dumbass but he sure is acting like one. And I say this as a fairly big apple fanboy with a macbook pro, ipad and iphone. :-)

it's 256 electrodes, yes, but the article doesn't say whether those electrodes are simple digital signals or if each one has some analog range they resolve. Even if it's 100% binary, the tresholding (what level of neural activity is considered a 1 or 0) could be adaptive.

This is amazing technology. I can't imagine how it would feel to have your ability to speak and even sing back after losing it.

I think mass media reporting makes it feel that way but it’s been my experience that it’s not true. I think the average American is doing their best to be a good person with what they’ve got. Their electoral system is broken in a similar way to the Canadian one: boiling down to a binary, two party decision that has no basis in reality, and a media that encourages extreme, polarizing positions.

Even this last election doesn’t (in my mind) reflect the average American. Less than half the eligible population cast their ballots. That’s a separate issue (voter disillusionment) but to me it means that those who did vote aren’t actually representative of what the average American wants or feels.

This all could be me being completely out of touch with the average American, but I don’t think it is based on my daily in-person interactions with them.

This is exactly how I feel. it’s like somewhere after 2000 people just gave up being civil, not just in politics although it feels like that’s where it’s become not just acceptable but almost required to demonize your opponent.

I’m not quite old enough to really have first hand experience or interest in politics before 1995 or so, but a lot of people seem to mark the time around Reagan as an inflection point.

Calling anyone who doesn’t immediately agree with you a nazi doesn’t make it so. That’s just a weak excuse for not having to think critically, which is the very definition of an echo chamber. A left-leaning Canadian is a “left leaning nazi”? Are you calling all Canadians nazis? Did it make you feel brave to do that? Did your internet friends congratulate you on standing up to someone who doesn’t think just like you do? Give your fucking head a shake and go touch grass. What a joke.

The internet is what you make it to be. I use it for information exchange; it appears you use it to feel safe, safe enough to make ridiculous accusations and pithy remarks to people you not only know nothing about, but don’t care to.

Like I said: enjoy your echo chamber.

I don’t know about you but if I’m on the ground (protesting or not) the last thing I want is a helicopter coming down anywhere near me.

a good old fashioned German rouladen. Gotta dice up the bacon though, no cheating.

After that, maybe Romanian sarmale, but only my wife’s. I’ve had dozens of variants, including what my wife says is superior, but it’s hers that’s the best.

After that, a specific Mici recipe.

Dammit, now I’m really hungry!

you could be right; I’m not great with keeping up with the right terminology. I mentioned in another reply that what I’m really after is finding the quieter “middle 80%”; the problem is that the nutters on either end get all the media attention and ratchet up the rhetoric because they’ll do anything to keep the attention.

I agree: it’s extremely difficult to find what I would call the “middle 80%” since the only people who tend to get all the media attention are the extremes at both ends who are hell bent on maintaining their airtime with ever more insane stunts.

I don’t understand how people can vote for someone who did such a piss poor job his first time around, but then again my province elected a drug dealer who ran with literally no election platform whatsoever and won, twice. It boggles the mind. Populism is a cancer.