I’m in the minority that basically never needs one and is okay with using a USB-C dongle in those cases. But I don’t mind phones having one, and perfectly understand the argument for keeping it. Form over function is definitely a factor in modern phone design.

See, having not read the books, there’s no way for me to know anything is “wrong”, so the finale didn’t particularly stand out as better or worse than the rest of the season. Said season was not insanely good, but a decent piece of entertainment to me.

Huh, I didn’t even know it was a book in the first place. The movies weren’t half bad at all, as their own thing…

The actual reasonable conclusion is not to jump to conclusions at all.

This assumes the mother is at all interested in resolving it. The narcissistic autocratic “my house my rules” types don’t really care.

On that subject, Sleep Token - The Summoning has a fun progression https://youtu.be/wJNbtYdr-Hg

Yaaaaaayyyy

Sigh. My town is even larger and more populous than yours… Really discouraging. Jobs in my field (programming) are mostly around town, and it’s too expensive for me to buy there, so unless I manage to keep working remote indefinitely, I’ll never be able to buy lol

Guessing you live in or close-ish some kind of urban center? I got my license at 18 cause the closest bus stop from my parents’ place was a 30 minute walk from the closest bus stop, getting literally anywhere useful was at the very minimum another 30 minutes on top of this, and getting downtown was another 45-50 minutes of bus+metro over those last two stretches, assuming no traffic. I currently live 60km outside of town, it’s the exact same story. 20 minute walk to the bus, 30 minute bus ride to the train station, and 45 minutes of train to get downtown. North America was built for cars, for better or (especially) for worse, our public transit infrastructure is terrible, things are so far from each other, nothing was built for it…

When I moved out of my parents’ place and got an apartment in the city with my wife though, we managed without a car. Bus/metro/walking got us everywhere we needed for every day life, and we used car sharing services when we needed to go out of town. I wouldn’t mind going back to this, but living in town would be literally twice as expensive, and we’re deeply priced out of that area if we ever want to buy, despite me making a solid 6 figures lol

Going for a solo golf round at the local public course early Saturday morning. I won’t be playing for a while after the next couple of rounds. The season is nearing the end, and my wife and I are expecting by late September, early October, so the golf clubs will stay in the locker hehe.

Edit: So I started playing again last year after a close to 15 year hiatus. Today was my best round since (89)!

Yeah, indeed. Was just explaining that it’s how I interpreted the comment you answered to initially, thus my response.

I see. You seem to interpret it as “are they moral as a whole”. I interpreted it as “do they have any good morals”. I don’t think either affirmation is contradictory.

The point was “do religions have any good in them”, not “are religious texts still relevant”.

It’s quite easy to find a lot of legitimately disgusting stuff in there, true. I’m on the antireligious apatheist side of things, so you don’t have to convince me on that. But I wouldn’t go as far as saying some religions’ fundamental pillars don’t have any good messages behind it. “Love one another” alone isn’t too bad at face value, isn’t it?

This makes a very large assumption that the universe is something that you can leave at all

Oh my god. I was on that rm2k/2k3 hype train for so long. Never put out anything of value, or anything really, but I had so much fun doing it.

French speaker here, reading and somewhat deducing the meaning of their comments haha

Ma grand-mère de 80-quelque me l’a déjà sorti les quelques fois où je l’ai vue vraiment fâchée. C’est un peu désuet comme usage je crois, mais ça existe définitivement.

I mean… Yeah, sure. The law also says I can’t sit on non-chair public infrastructure around here, but is it really being enforced?

Retaliation and abuse from an employer is hard to prove. Fighting back takes energy and time, a thing your average middle-class and lower don’t have in large quantities once they’re done working. And it can be hard to explain to your next employer that you’re in legal proceedings against your ex employer over your working conditions without hurting your chances to be employed in the first place. There’s a world of difference between what’s in law and what actually happens.

Not surprised at all. Companies love to offload their losses to everyone else. If you come in regardless, they don’t lose the value your work brings them, while their sick employees spread their crap to everyone and costs society thousands in perfectly avoidable healthcare costs.