snooggums

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 2 hours ago

[Solar powered strobe lights.](https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Strobe-Warning-Light-Flashing
/dp/B08HLL8JQL)

Sure the battery will fail after a few years but until then they will have something that won't exist again for centuries.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The question sounds like someone who doesn't know that fiddling has been around for centuries.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Mobile phones are such a tiny market, no room for appealing to different needs.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

The problem is acting like everything has to be extremes instead of acknowledging that a small change allows for a lot more options. Like why bring up a brick sized phone as a response to 'slightly thicker' except to be a contrarian?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sure and since there is already a bump for the camera making it slightly thicker for more battery or a removable battery isn't ruining a perfectly flat surface.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

They can absolutely waterproof all of the working bits separately from the battery. The battery does not need to be in the same enclosure. It could even be attached with the same kind of waterproofing glue to protect the connection but would be easier to remove and replace than taking the entire phone apart.

The reason they don't do it is because it requires slightly more thickness and makes it feasible for people to replace the battery.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Naming a department in a country founded by immigrants using a term reminiscent of terminology used by nazis that they celebrated defeating about 50 years prior as part of a nationalist propaganda movement certainly was a thing.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Is this how I find out that Sonic went MAGA?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 60 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (10 children)

While I get the underlying point, any schedule for changing prices is going to cause a proportional gap as well. Even changing annually will have points in time where purchasing power relative to the dollar changes.

Plus constantly changing would seem like they are trying to get more at certain times. Honestly there isn't a pricing scheme that involves the US dollar that isn't just converting local currency to dollars at the time of purchase and that is a whole can of worms too.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Yup. This is also why they did the whole leftists have secret pizza child rape dungeons to minimize the impact of Esptein and called Bidens Executive Orders overreach so when Trump escalated it complaints dounded like sour grapes and...

Just everything they complained about and then did was to shift that overton window.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 20 hours ago

I take off my clothes when I bathe so that checks out.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I think it is just the people in armor since it looks like a photoshop of the image partway down this article. Seeing the original image before would have helped, but I only read about the building being burned in Nepal.

https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/nepals-parliament-set-on-fire-as-anticorruption-protests-escalate/news-story/fbedfeedd5f96cb455bd753d8c54e241

 

So a quarter century ago, I was in high school with my older brother. The school was situation on a hill in town, and while the two of us drove separately as we had different schedules, we both went the same route.

So one fall I noticed a car that looked like dad's while driving home. It wasn't a common model, as I hadn't noticed another one around town that was the same color. Saw it occasionally, but didn't really think anything of it. About a month later my older brother called me into his room.

"Have you seen dad's car on the way home from school?" he asked.

"Is it his? Thought it was a coincidence."

"Yeah, the plates are the same and when I passed it today he saw me." he said.

"Oh, did you stop and say hi?"

"No, he looked upset and I think he is cheating on mom. Have you noticed how she has been so quiet lately?"

There was a knock on the door and my dad asked us to come out to the dining room as he had an announcement. We went out, my younger brother and sister were already there and my mom was choking back tears. My brother and I sat down and dad, looking as sad as I've ever seen him took a minute to get started.

"[older brother], I saw you today and knew it was time that you all needed to know. Some things just happen, and it isn't anyone's fault," said dad.

My older brother looked surprised, and opened his mouth to speak. Dad cut him off.

"This is a lot for kids to hear," he said, as mom burst into tears. "I have leukemia."

"Oh, thank god!" said my older brother. "What is that?" he said to two very confused and tearful parents.

It's been long enough I don't remember the rest, but he was able to deflect it and we went through the emotional roller coaster that is coming to grips with a serious illness. Dad mentioned that he saw my older brother when he was leaving his leukemia support group meeting that is near the high school, and knew that keeping it from us wasn't the right thing to do. A lot of crying and hugs, and serious questions about what was ahead.

The next summer we did our last family road trip and did a two week round trip. Dad went through chemo, which was rough on him physically and mentally, and eventually scheduled a bone marrow transplant as one of his brothers was a match. The odds of success were very low at the time, and unfortunately he did have a stroke during the surgery and we had to say goodbye. He was 49.

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