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last two phones I bought were $250 off of aliexpress.

Before that I got used phones from relatives who upgraded, but that was at the time when a newer model was actually a big improvement generation-to-generation. Then everyone started to use their phone until it became completely useless so I had to buy new.

Aliexpress xiaomi/poco phones used to be better value, the next time I buy I phone I'll probably get a previous generation or 2 flagship from a mainstream company because waterproofing would be nice.

They should get anti-trust lawsuit against them for that.

Not fair to integrate cloud storage in your OS and not have it be open. Even less fair to push it on people like that.

Kamala is as bad as anyone else the DNC would pick, but I like her personality the most out of all those options. She's basically Veep.

If she was president they'd probably make her stop talking about venn diagrams and coconut trees, like they stopped Biden from going on rambling old man stories about Cornpop, and turned him into a smooth-faced marionette.

All male relationships stand under the shadow of homosexuality by their very nature. The desire for intimacy between men, whether enforced or not, is always under the shadow of the prohibition of becoming too close.

This explains why guys say "no homo", or "pause", but I don't really understand where the incredibly gay things said between male bodybuilders, and initiations in male sports teams/frats, come from.

If anything you'd expect a lot more straightforward tension in a locker-room from this, where people would hide themselves while getting dressed, and shower in bathing suits. Not people saying things like 'nice ass bro'.

I read your post, and idk where exactly these things come from still. If people are afraid of seeming gay, I don't understand how that explains covering shirtless men in white goop while they cooperate to climb something phallic.

I'll comment on you linked post.

What's with groups of bro-y straight guys being incredibly gay?

Locker room talk got very homo-erotic when I was in high-school gym, but if anyone was actually gay it would've gotten very awkward.

I heard rumours about sports-team initiations where they

Did any feminist writers write about this stuff?

The debate is clipping Biden out of context at bad moments, it's just a cold/stutter. Now watch how this 24 second clip of Biden greeting people at a waffle house proves he's not senile"

If the cornpop story is even slightly true (which I believe it is because the leg hair thing was too weird to be made up by a speech writer), then Biden has talked to black people before while he was young, and I guess retained being personable in old age.

Considering he was friends with Strom Thurmond, this clip could've gone a lot worse. Or maybe they cut out the part with the old-timey slurs he probably doesn't remember being offensive.

I don't really need the locally trained AI to recognize general handwriting, only my own.

I could provide a few pages of my own training data (maybe write out a few pages of "quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and other stuff like that), and then ideally it flags stuff it's unsure about and I clarify some more. Maybe find garbled nonsensical sentences, realize it's probably a mistake, and try and fix it.

I assumed the leaps in AI would have taken care of this by now, since detecting handwritten letters from touch pen-strokes existed in the 90s. But I guess handing it a chunk of text is too different of a problem, instead of feeding it stroke by stroke?

I was thinking something like "wascal" but with the real r-word slur.

The n-word hard-r is definitely worse than the n-word soft-r/a, but Linus' definition of hard vs soft r is more ambiguous as to which one is worse if used in a sentence.

It's funny what this implies he thinks a "soft R" means

This is actually a bigger deal than the headline suggests if the claims are to be believed. Hopefully the licensing isn't too expensive for it to be widely adopted if manufacturing at scale is easy.

They don't say how it degrades in water, but if it can degrade in ~2months outdoors then that's actually pretty good.

Most biodegradable eco-plastic is a scam because it's either only partially degradable, or only degradable in industrial facilities. If I can throw this packaging in my own compost bin then that would be a huge way to get rid of single-use plastic.

That's very dubious, since where I live they have to honour the shelf price even if it's wrong.

What happens when they raise the price while I'm on the way to the register? How can I possibly counter this?

I actually had something similar happen to me. I grabbed something, I was mischarged, I told the cashier who told the manager who checked, and the manager changed the price while I was standing at the checkout and claimed it was always that price. I usually check the UPC when something is on clearance so I know I'm buying the right thing. I didn't buy the item.

Now I always walk with them to the aisle to see the price so they don't pull that on me.