I know it’s cultural appropriation but it’s really cultural laundering (a term I’ve just invented that’s a portmanteau of cultural appropriation and money laundering): take ill-gotten gains (say, R&B music), run it through a front (change something, slightly), and suddenly your ill-gotten gains are clean (white people…

Of course they are. The users buy it anyway, no matter how hostile it is. And then they say it “just works”, when what they mean is “it ‘just works’ as long as you do exactly what Apple intended you to do with it and absolutely nothing else.”

I’ve heard the hour-long goodbye referred to as the “Minnesota goodbye.” As all my relatives from Ohio, Michigan, and western PA do it too, it’s probably more accurately called the “Midwestern goodbye.” Because Midwesterners are just so genuinely, guilelessly nice and concerned about not causing offense that a…

Yep... that means my single morning 32oz travel mug is the limit.

There is literally an app that will send your text messages as a fax to your Rep.

Keep your current job?

Is it really priceless when it’s insured for a specific value?

What Waze really needs to do is get Android Auto support going, then it will be really easy to pop between Waze and any audio app.

Alright guys, what we’ve got is a simple, reliable, ubiquitous chat client that people have finally started to recognize under its current name.

So do I have to replace Hangouts with Allo on my phone? But I want the chats on my phone to be the same chats on my desktop, and I want backups saved and searchable.

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Maruchan should sell the flavor packs individually. I mean I get that the instant noodle packs are cheap, but I don’t want to throw good noodles out. I also don’t want to eat plain ramen noodles, nor do much work seasoning them myself.

There are plenty of reliable but inexpensive cars. That’s just one way we talk ourselves into a more expensive car then we need. As I said in a different reply, the biggest problem is the rate that new cars drop in value, not the interest.