The whole thing is a stand-in “I’m old and irrelevant and no on will miss me when I’m gone.”

Well, that’s kind of what people buy into tech stocks like Facebook buy into them for. You invest in a bunch of things like Facebook, Uber, etc, and if one of them explodes, you pull your money out and put it elsewhere - either in more conservative investments that net you steady cashflow (Facebook is still probably…

Is it?

Coincidentally, a massive Bluetooth vulnerability was just announced.

He was looking a little gassed out there.

You don’t need to close apps unless they are running a lot in the background (tap the clock thingie to get a breakdown of the last 1/7 days). For me the only things that use a lot of energy while not in use are chat apps like WhatsApp and Fb Messenger, but I think that’s more to do with getting a lot of notifications…

Counterpoint: if your clothes aren’t dirty enough to need washing in warm water, they don’t need to be washed.

My first (and only) attempt at a trip with a rideshare app, the driver marked me as picked up, drove several miles down the highway, and then marked it as “ride ended early”, so I had a $12 charge for nothing that only took me two weeks to reverse - and they tried to say it must have just been the driver pressing the…

Another big part of the problem is news masquerading as entertainment. When a reporter’s job was just to report facts, they were accepted as facts. When a reporter’s job became coming up with a broader narrative, people who didn’t like the narrative changed the channel. 

“QuickTime” is the name for Apple’s old proprietary multimedia API, and a file format once designed to go along with it. “QuickTime Player” is the app most people remember as basically being a transparent GUI program to allow playback of QuickTime files as well as access to other parts of the API. QTP for Windows…

Özil wasn’t the only thing wrong with the German squad - there’s plenty of blame to go around there. But he went from being Germany’s top scorer in quals for 2014 to practical anonymity during the tournament and since then, making him a clear candidate for “most overrated”. 

If you’re supposed to rely on yourself, why do they allow aid stations at all? Like most sporting events, the real ethos is “organizers come up with stupid rules because they enjoy telling younger, fitter people what to do.” Fuck Hardrock.

If you’re actively working out your alcohol tolerance plummets. When I started training for a half marathon I went from being able to day drink half a case of beer without feeling more than a buzz to having to stop after two beers. Obviously I’m not a 22-year old Div I football player, but it’s never as simple as…

Nah. Everyone needs to double down on their angry, misinformed Internet Outrage, because that ensures that they vent all of their frustrations in pointless disputes on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram instead of bringing about meaningful change.

If only he’d done this before the World Cup.

“How many ya got?”

So far they haven’t opted to move to Ulaan Bataar, but we’ll see.

Seriously. NYC-London round trip costs less today than it did in 1970, not even adjusting for inflation. Inflation-adjusted it’d be like $3500 bucks, and you can get business-class tickets for that little if you buy far enough in advance (and the business class experience won’t just be better than coach in 1970, it…

What’s in it for the user? If Facebook is worth using, it’s only worth it because just about everybody else is there, too. 

There’s loads of small hip-hop venues in most decent cities where nobodies can perform, often just for free beer or pocket change but that’s no different from punk bands or indie groups. What’s different with rap is the idea that you should be able to get a contract without actually hustling for a career in the music …