https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-07-hobbyist-gives-iphone-7-headphone-jack.html#:~:text=But Strange Parts creator Scotty,a fully functional headphone jack.

The most recent phone I purchased does not a 3.5mm jack. It wasn’t really a decision I realized I was making, as the phone’s previous iteration had had it in an era when that wasn’t a given.

There have been a few times that I’ve missed it, not many, certainly fewer than 10 never a huge deal. But that’s infinitely more times than I’ve thought:

I’m so glad my phone doesn’t have a headphone jack.

Next phone will definitely have one because honestly

yeah I might use that

Is enough justification to spend $0.25 (if that) for them to integrate a jack. What stupid cost cutting.

Take the box of bent nails/ screws/ nuts/ bolts/doo hickies that everyone of us has and fill it with sand.

I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically

I can understand liking the idea of the cyber truck but its aesthetic is so different from convention that I think people need to see it in person to decide if they like it.

There are so many things in it that are different in ways that might be better it is hard for me to imagine it selling well.

Kinda, Not really.

The Suzuki Carry has a bed width of 1585mm (62.4") the Silverado has a max bed width of 64.8" (1646mm) so 60mm/2.5" wider. But the Silverado’s bed isn’t rectangular, ie if you want to lay something flat, the widest it can be is 50" (1270mm). That’s a foot narrower than the Suzuki.

The Silverado has higher walls which imo isn’t really a plus or minus. (More bulk materials, and less need to tie things down, but harder to access the things).

There are a lot of other differences in available configurations. I think the reason a lot of people prefer Silverados boil down to esthetics, and the perceptions of others. I think that for a lot of men, pickup trucks are an expression of their masculinity. They want something big and powerful that they can take into the woods and be manly^tm with.

A Carry is very practical and if I owned a landscaping business I think that’s what I’d want my crews to be driving.

But also, I’m not a business owner. I’m a man and I get it. Honestly I’d way rather own that enormous impractical pickup. I’m more likely to be hauling hockey gear than lumber and drywall. I’m tall and girthy, I appreciate a spacious cab. I have child seats in my car.

Maybe men should stop pretending they don’t care a lot about fun.

Edit to add: but I do agree we need society to be less car/truck centric.

Hey thanks for more context I appreciate it.

-20F (-30C) is quite cold. How often is it that cold during commuting hours? It’s hard to read too much into anecdotes re house latches freezing because there are so many peculiarities of individual houses. Range will definitely be reduced though.

I could see the ice melt slurry being messy and gumming up the bike’s mechanics for sure. Not something I have experience with.

Yeah separate infrastructure makes biking a lot safer and so more attractive.

I hear that biking in the snow isn’t actually bad. This is hearsay because it doesn’t snow much where I am.

You wear your winter coat and snow pants, and get studded tires.

You don’t have to worry about getting stuck going up an icy hill (because if its too icy to drive up, you can walk up it), granted not likely to be a problem in Wisconsin.

You don’t have to worry about getting stuck due to low clearance (like the snow between the ruts that hatchbacks and minivans get stuck on) because you can just pick up your bike.

Also if a pedestrian slips while crossing the road, you probably won’t kill them if you can’t stop in time.

I guess the wind could be intense. What’s your experience been?

Dbrand is lucky they haven’t been sued by the board manufacturers for creating an unlicensed derivative work (which is what the case art is, just as the photo of a sculpture, even stylized, has been deemed derivative - especially when the reproduction is intended to represent the original).

I think “lucky” is an overstatement but this is an interesting point and could be the knockoff company’s defense ie:

we couldn’t have infringed their IP because they don’t own the IP

But I think this line of defense would open both case makers up to a suit from the phone manufacturers. Dbrand is well familiar with IP issues with hardware OEMs though so I don’t know…

Ledes: leads led the lead leads to LEDs in Leeds.

Pronounced:

the leeds: leeds led the led leeds to leds in leeds

Translation:

multiple headlines said he followed his bosses with soft metal wires to connect some energy efficient lights in the worst place to stage a protest.

My pleasure, my favorite of theirs is The State Lottery ft. Noam Chomsky.

reminds me of a great song

I’m a feminist and not a Freemason. I wasn’t convinced that Freemasonry is misogynistic simply because it excludes women. Ie: I think there are valid reasons to have some gender separated spaces. My understanding is that Freemasonry is a practice intended to ‘improve’ men (whatever that means to them). I think that’s possibly a valid reason for maintaining a gendered space.

However; in preparing to write this comment I learned that Masonry’s sister organization (The Order of the Eastern Star), which is open to both men and women, is subordinate to the Masonic lodge. This does strike me as misogynistic.

I’m open to reading thoughtful comments by Masons or more knowledgeable feminists.

I think the idea of it being an alternative power structure is part of it, but their reasoning is that Freemasonry is Deist/Rationalist which is incompatible with the Catholic position that revelation is a source of truth. Anything that elevates Freemasonry inherently undermines Catholic dogma.

Catholics and Masons are welcome to weigh in though, I’m not either.

I don’t think I’m in the wrong comment chain, and I think I commented before you clarified re climate change.

Also I’ve edited one of my comments explaining a really weird auto correct replacement i didn’t catch, which may explain why you feel I’m accusing you of things.

You said tire pollution is potentially worse for the environment than tailpipe emissions. That is a wildly irresponsible thing to say. That’s what I was objecting to.

There absolutely are people arguing that ICs are better for the environment, as if climate change doesn’t affect the environment.

If you’re going to buy a new car, don’t, but if you’re going to buy one anyway, prioritize reducing of ghg emissions.

Edited: changed “euphemistically” to reducing, my fault for not proofreading my auto correct (I use swore typing on my phone so sometimes things go really sideways)

The community no, but individual commenters yes. Blogs like carbuzz, yes.

Oh yes, I forgot about how brake dust is burning towns to the ground because of extreme weather and inundating low lying regions with rising sea levels.

I think that the right to private digital communication is more essential to the security of a free state than gun ownership.

Which manufacturer?

Um, ACKSHUALLY In this scene of the Simpsons (S13E04) Smithers is horrified by the dancers. It’s NOT that he’s struggling to resist looking at them.

Are we meant to believe that you find Star Trek memes horrifying? I hope someone got fired for that gaffe.

Worst. Meme. Ever.