As long as they don’t start to die after 3-4 years like refrigerators are nowadays.

I put them on because I keep my phone in my pocket with all kinds of other stuff. Be that keys, sometimes a pocket knife, AirPods case, screwdriver sometimes, or change. I paid multiple hundreds of dollars for the phone, and I’d much rather replace a $4 glass screen protector when it gets scratched up than be upset…

I don’t know for sure, but Manen Lyset is a pretty prolific r/NoSleep writer. I used to listen to the NoSleep podcast and know that name from multiple stories. I only stopped because it seemed like the stories were getting to all be the same. However, it was always like 3-4 stories per week, so even if they only make…

He was a Haas F1 test driver and did FP a few years ago in the young driver development sessions. So he was employed as a driver by an F1 team but never actually raced.

Listen to yesterdays episode of ‘The Distraction’ podcast. They go into a lot of the recent executive vs actual workers in a few industries. Tech, journalism, entertainment, etc. It’s a good listen. It’s nominally a sports podcast but the one from yesterday barely mentioned sports. The episode with Adam Conover and…

Hey man, owning the Magic Castle ain’t cheap. He’s gotta finance it SOMEHOW, right?!

A lot easier to not be evil when you’re not publicly offered, governed by a board of people outside the company who only care about money or beholden to investors. The moment they went public, the writing was on the wall.

Not to be *that guy* but he’s not an F1 driver. He was a test driver for Haas 3 years ago, but has since been racing in WEC.

There’s a left handed version of the Logitech Lift, FWIW.

They’re the same except that the Mac version don’t come with a dongle. It’s bluetooth only because every Mac has bluetooth. From what I can find, you can still pair it to a Bolt dongle, but you’d have to buy it separately if you want it @ $15, so if you want to use the dongle, and the Mac version isn’t more than $15…

What’s “budget” to you? $10? $20? I don’t think $35 is out of the realm of “budget” at all. A value meal at Chick Fil A is $13. When the others in the list are at least $50, and some are $150+, $35 certainly feels budget to me. Sure, you can buy a $15 mouse, and it’ll work, but it won’t be good in comparison to an…

I don’t think people are nostalgic for smoking specifically, simply romanticizing a past as they remember it. A past that never really existed, much like Boomers mythologizing the 50's and 60's when they were kids, these things seem like Gen-Xers mythologizing the 70's to 80's when they were kids. Millennials do it…

I’m pretty excited for this. Apple tends to actually spend money on their shows, which certainly helps, too. I think I’d love to see a Snowcrash TV show (or movie trilogy?) even more. It feels a little more adaptable than Neuromancer, but I’m more than happy for Neuromancer, too.

I’m gambling averse in the first place, but anything that promises ‘free money’ gets an automatic ‘fuck off’ from me.

Surge pricing only works if you lower prices below the norm when demand is low. If the only thing they can do is go up, it’s simply price gouging. OK, so you have less people coming through at lunch, but those people don’t love Wendy’s so much that they’ll come back an hour later. They’ll just go to Chic-Fil-A or…

I think they’re required to by law and it’s a regulated utility. The ‘refund’ comes in the form of a discount on the base service since you don’t ONLY pay for usage. The problem is that that base service cost is usually pretty small, and unless your outage is for a day or more, you probably would never even notice it.

It’s one medium soda, Michael. What could it cost?

But people already can do that. It just costs them money to get on the plane’s wifi and make calls that way. I don’t want to make voice calls at all, but to limit people’s use of text and data usage when it serves no other purpose but profit motive isn’t the best policy either. What’s to stop the person next to you…

Is his facial hair that sparse because he got a hair transplant after starting to bald at a young age? Serious question.

This is like the NY Giants offering a free medium soda to season ticket holders as ‘fan appreciation’. It’s insults people more than it assuages any ill will.