Yeah, I know watches have had built-in GPS or radio communication with atomic clocks for awhile now. Was always way too expensive for my taste. Was hoping that hybrid smartwatches would open up that functionality to a more budget-friendly market, since the watch would only need to communicate with your phone.

*If his then wife didn’t keep tinkering. My understanding is that she completely saved A New Hope in the edit.

Personally I’d be happy with a ~$100 analog watch whose only smart feature is that it automatically sets the time. I love analog watches but resetting them every time I cross a time zone is a pain.

You admit that you don’t spend two seconds thinking about anyone else feel like it’s a major imposition on you to be asked to think bout someone else, and would rather I change my entire career/travel plans to accommodate your desire not to think about anyone else, but somehow I’m the authoritarian, selfish prick…

Have done Locurio’s Storyteller and all three of Palace Games’s and can confirm they’re all excellent. Thanks so much for the Lab rat recommendation, gonna hit that up ASAP!

To begin with, it completely explains LA. LA has public transportation but nowhere near like what the other cities you have on your list do. Cabs could still work but if you’re gonna be in the LA area for more than a few days renting a car is a must.

Lots of reasons for this, first and foremost because America’s car culture means that there are vanishingly few cities in the US where you don’t need a car. This also necessarily means that hotels have to have parking spaces, which is real estate they can’t rent out and so every hotel room needs to cover both its…

Ok. So then you wouldn’t have a problem with someone kicking the back of your seat for hours on end? Because if you would, you should probably solve your own problem by buying the seat behind you.

I paid for an iPhone with a speaker, so I guess by your logic it’s totally cool for me to blast my music for the whole cabin? “I’m entitled to use things I paid for” being the end-all be-all of your moral universe here.

I like how you’ve proposed all these convoluted solutions that I could undertake, including changing my entire career, rather than just adopt the one simple solution I propose: just ask first.

No, my position would be that you can ask to un-recline but that decision is still entirely up to me whether or not to do so.

If there’s no reason to ask for permission, are you also taking the position that somebody politely asking you to un-recline can be safely ignored? Because if you think somebody should un-recline their seat after a polite request to do so, then you’re admitting that the person behind you has some right to limit your…

Why is it incumbent on the person you’re reclining into to ask you to stop? Why shouldn’t you have to ask permission first before doing so?

You have to be a real asshole to think that you’re entitled to recline without at least first asking the person behind you if it’s ok.

I would love to see stats on who is actually forced to buy an extra seat for being obese. I’m a tall, big guy. Been pushing 300lbs. for most of my life, though wide shoulders and a tall frame mean I’m not exactly spilling out of my chair. I’m outside the “normal” range in almost every metric. And I have never once had…

Here’s the reality of sitting in front of a tall person on a plane: you will try to recline, which is akin to hammering somebody’s shins with a heavy piece of metal multiple times. Then the seat won’t recline more than the tiniest bit. So you’ll have basically no discernable comfort increase while the person behind…

Why do you think it’s incumbent on the person you’re reclining into to ask you to stop, rather than incumbent on you to ask for permission? If you would feel uncomfortable asking for permission first, then I think you’ve identified that you know on some level that reclining is a zero sum game and you’re just trying to…

You’re either not really 6'3" or we have very different body dimensions. Because I’m 6'3" and my knees are buried in the seat in front of me for the entire flight.

My iPhone is designed to be able to play loud music or make speaker calls. If we weren’t supposed to do so the feature wouldn’t exist. Does that mean I have a right to play that music or make those calls in a public space, for everyone to hear? And if somebody objects becausee it’s annoying, is that them articulating…

I think the fundamental solution here is to put the onus on the person seeking to recline. They shouldn’t just recline first and dare you to complain about it. That sort of “ask forgiveness not permission” attitude is the standard tactic of the asshole. The polite thing to do is to ask the person behind you if it’s ok…