Maybe it had also found a 46 000 000 year old mosquito in amber and had just finished drinking that beautifully aged blood when the tree sap struck again.

Flowers and grass, too.

Sharks showed up in the fossil record at about the same time the Appalachian mountains stopped their mountain building activity, 450 mya.

Yeah IMO getting popular ruined reddit.

They make me think of kids who hide food they don’t want to eat in stupid places and get all surprised when they realize it makes wherever they were hiding it into a biohazard.

Or anyone who thinks they are getting a free benefit from using something a certain way and completely ignoring that each use ruins it a bit more.

Not gonna gatekeep posts, but this one seems more like a bug than asshole design IMO. Though “pay attention to me!”-style notifications existing for the app at all is assholey, so it’s probably a bug in their asshole design.

Yeah, not sure why yours in particular was the only one, probably timing.

This was reported but I don’t think it warrants censorship.

If you’re taking this more seriously than it should be, just keep in mind that there will likely be legal consequences since gas stations frequently have plenty of cameras and ask yourself if this hill is worth dying on. You’ll get charged and they’ll just replace the damn things anyways.

And they still have a DAC because they drive physical speakers.

If it’s about water proofing, the same solution that makes the charge port water-tight would work for a headphone jack.

And I have a combined charger/audio jack adapter for my car. It’s cold now, and the adapter doesn’t connect very well until it warms up. And since the audio is now being accessed via USB, the phone needs to unlock before it will start sending a signal. And every time it loses that connection, audio stops and the phone needs to be unlocked to start it again (lock screen play button will only play through the phone speakers until it’s unlocked).

Not to mention just getting a decent adapter isn’t straightforward either, especially in this day of so many fly by night “businesses” that just stick around long enough that the real negative reviews start to cancel out the fake ones they purchased as a cost of being in the fraud business, not to mention the “legit” businesses so often embracing enshitification and misleading marketing.

Oh also sometimes my car’s RPM can be heard through the speakers because that’s how it generates the current to power the adapter and it isn’t sufficiently isolated like it was on the phone.

It’s very difficult for a set of volunteers to combat people being paid to manipulate their platform, so I’m happy with this platform remaining small enough to not be worth spending money on to manipulate.

I recently noticed that when a user gets banned, all of their posts and associated threads also get removed but with no notice.

I’ve also seen entire discussions removed because they included some heated words, despite also including useful discussion or even one sided rebuttals. While I’m under no illusion that things can get solved here, it’s annoying to see shit get deleted just because someone got upset. Even if there isn’t anything useful in comments, it breaks up the discussion because any replies have lost context.

IMO if it’s a disruptive user, ban them, but leave the evidence of their disruption up, unless it was spam or the kind of illegal shit that can get anyone who sees it in trouble.

The Atlantic is mostly missing, too (Brazil is directly south of Liberia). It’s clearly a map made by Indian Ocean supremacists.

I’d be curious to see the changes. Nigeria got worse, but did the rest of the countries? Even this one has a lot where the majority are still homophobic, despite the decline.

Woah, woah, there. What’s with all this thought and attention to details?

Yeah, the vocab is where I most feel hopeless. I use an app for learning kanji and it has parts where they build into words and it just feels like I’m missing a ton of cultural context with how some of the words seem so random with the different kanji they string together. It seems more intuitive if you’re starting from there, because their words end up so much more related when made up of subwords rather than English where our words do have roots but they are strewn across a bunch of different base languages and evolve individually as sounds from there.

Trying to learn Japanese as a native english speaker gave me a lot of respect for Japanese (and I think Asians in general, since I suspect other languages in the area are more similar to each other than they are to European languages) people who learn to speak even broken English. Our languages are so different, from the alphabets used, to the way words are formed, to sentence structure, and even having formality baked into things like verb conjugation and titles for everyone based on what your relationship is with them (with different defaults based on how the relationship starts).

So assuming going from Japanese to English is a similar difficulty, it doesn’t surprise me that they might have a similar respect for those who make an attempt to learn their language.

After a year of learning (though with admittedly varying levels of motivation), I can still only pick out some words while listening or reading and can barely form my own sentences with a very limited vocabulary. Though I think part of that is duolingo particularly sucking for english - > japanese. My year sub expires tomorrow but duolingo never even hinted at formality being baked into the language and treats kanji as after thoughts.

What resources did you find btw?

I wonder if a drone that can fire silly string or fishing line could reliably jam up propellers.

Or “if you’re going to surrender, you might as well defect while you’re at it”. Though sucks to be them if Ukraine would rather exchange them for their own prisoners.

Also Maldives, Seychelles, Comoros, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Palau, Solomon Islands, Vanatu, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nuaru, and… I think that’s it.

Edit: Silly me, I forgot one. Fiji, how could I forget Fiji?

Yeah, it might be a bad plan, but that doesn’t rule it out as the plan.

Unless Putin is secretly up to something else and is ok throwing away hundreds of thousands of people plus all the military equipment they’ve lost, this whole thing looks like a bad plan.