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After 3 attempts at an Apple Watch over the years, I finally had the experience that pushed me over the edge and I sold my Apple Watch 10 for a Coros APEX 4 - a device that has rea…

I’ll pick up a AAA game every few years and only after it’s on steep sale. This method has been working well for me but I’ve also considered myself as having my foot out the door f…

It's free speech against the government, so hard to imagine this SCOTUS ruling against her. EDIT: Nvm, just saw the birthright citizenship vote. Some of SCOTUS can't read or are vo…

> they haven't missed in a couple of decades Depends on your gaming tastes. I haven't really enjoyed any of the GTAs for longer than 2 hours, while RDR2 I also stopped playing afte…

> This water usage argument against data centers is so specious Conditions for drought have been increasing across the US, including an increase in literal droughts. The ecosystem …

> If being in the EU was so great then why don't Norway or Switzerland join? I'm not an economist nor am I an European citizen, but both of those countries have very successful and…

> But on the other hand it also feels like a straightforward play for consumer sympathy 100% - just like Apple making such a grandiose show of "privacy". "Privacy" for Apple eventu…

> I urge everyone reading to unsubscribe instantaneously from the NYTimes for their business practices. If people stopped buying from unethical businesses it would be practically i…

> It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations Yeah I used to learn so much across quite a few forums. Most of those communities are dead, dying, …

Everything you said plus now these out-of-touch and incredibly rich CEOs are shoving it in our faces that they are determined to take away our income while pocketing even more rich…

> You can actually mine the Venusian surface for metals By "surface" do you mean the ground of Venus? The odds of a mining operation happening on the ground of Venus seems like sci…

> I am convinced that their talk of UBI is just handwaving Well, they are sociopaths so that checks out. What I find even more horrible is that they still somehow have an almost re…

> I think you might be missing a subtle point about Costco It's not a subtle point. Members buy a membership and if they shop there enough recoup the cost of the membership and mor…

Yeah I never bothered to verify the claim of them being made in the same factory and only heard it from word of mouth from some folks.

> Online communities are definitely dying. I guess I hope that maybe IRL communities have a resurgence in this wake. Would be super fascinating to watch play out. I grew up before …

I won't engage any further with a strawman argument made in bad faith.

No hate on people who buy that stuff - I like more eccentric style/colors and a specific fit that I've never seen at a Costco (athletic/form fitting vs bulky). Something like pajam…

They used to be better but I stopped buying them after COVID related supply chain problems lowered the quality, at least a few years ago. Dunno if they rebounded. Supposedly they a…

Sure but do you recall what LA looked like in the 80's? The gas is more expensive but the unseen cost of that level of pollution is very high. The gov can solve all future gas prob…

Sounds great for people and the environment. Too bad its production is now in danger thanks to horrible, ignorant decisions by this administration.

Costco is a store... where coffee, usually gas and most food + home goods are reliable in quality and priced well comparatively. Comparing the price of salmon fillets at Costco to …

> which seems to be a binary input for diagnosis. Talk to a doctor about any diagnoses.

Apple is so intent on making the Apple Watch a catch-all that it doesn’t necessarily do any specific activity amazingly. After three Apple Watches over many years I finally sold my…

> a GPU which costs as much as a car must read its entire VRAM just to output a word sounds incredibly wasteful Kind of how I feel about Bitcoin at this point. The coins take so in…