Em Adespoton

I guess if the aliens were carbon-based, it would let them cook planets and then sample the biological products at leisure.

The oceans and lakes would boil off, of course.

No, I meant the Files app on the phone. It can browse Windows fileshares on the same WiFi network.

If the jamming was spread spectrum and affected wired signals, it would also be strong enough to cook every living thing on the planet.

There’s really no reason for iTunes anymore.

Got MP3s? Stick them in a fileshare on your PC and use the Files app to copy them onto your phone. Or run a streaming service and stream them over.

But if you really want to manage everything from the PC, you can always use software like iMazing to do so.

Lots of options, all better than iTunes.

There is a difference, actually. The cords are the same gauge, but with two shorter ones, the wire is broken up in the middle to run through a plug and socket. This whole assembly causes impedance and can heat up.

Not as much of an issue if each plug and socket has a fuse, but if they don’t, those are the heat and arc points.

I think you’re conflating a few things there.

Most people in North America and Europe under 30 today are likely to become millionaires before they die. My point was that being a millionaire is pretty much useless when you spend that much in groceries and rent in a year.

Over 55s had a dream of becoming millionaires when they were younger and a million dollars was enough to live on for the rest of your life. The sad truth is that those who didn’t make it are likely to die in poverty, while most of those who did make it likely still can’t afford to retire at 65.

The younger you are, the more the S&P will help you compound your savings to the point where you can afford to stop working before you die. Assuming you can save anything—which is really difficult and getting harder.

<politicians worldwide> hold my alcoholic beverage of choice….

A large number of us CAN be millionaires. Which is a problem.

It took me roughly 40 years to become a millionaire. 40 years of investing in stable stocks and bonds and scrimping and living well below my means. I was finally able to afford to buy a house. Then the market boomed and suddenly I’m worth over a million.

Unfortunately, almost all of that is tied up in owning a small plot of land. If I sold it, I’d need to immediately use it to buy another small plot of land, or leave my city or go back to extortionate rent. And yet I need to pay monthly taxes on that land, or I no longer own it.

Where I used to spend $90/month on food, now I spend well over $500/month.

Essentially, if you’re over 55 and you’re not a millionaire and you’re living in a major city, you’re screwed because of inflation.

Worth noting that this is something that can change over time. For example, if Snowden had done such a thing, it would be essentially useless now, since the known and accepted activities of the US government are now worse than what Snowden revealed.

Why not both?

Scouts / Guides / Cadets come to mind, as do things like obstacle courses, hunting, fishing, bicycling (of various types) etc. - we often categorize a lit of this under “clubs” and “sports”.

There’s also collecting, studying/researching/exploring.

And then there’s other things that fall under entertainment like going to a play or a talk or a performance.

You can also upload directly to archive.org; not so great for streaming to a large audience, but good for archiving for public access.

Along with the other feedback here… what timeframe is involved here?

Since the US election, misogyny online has skyrocketed. Guys who previously wrote pretty much normal stuff started saying things like “your body, my choice.”

In this environment, I’d be pretty careful about who I chatted with.

That said, as others have mentioned, a lot of those “women” are likely men trying to connect with women.

Worth pointing out that it is highly unlikely for an airplane window to either smash or pop out — they’re multi-layered Lexan reinforced panes mounted from the inside. And they’ve all got a hole on the inside pane so that a controlled decompression with a loud whistling would happen long before the entire pane would give way. This would likely provide time for the masks to drop and the pilot to adjust altitude long before any explosive decompression (if that even occurred).

Likewise, doors are designed not to open at altitude.

So the only weak spots these days are door plugs and the bathrooms.

“Cloud” is just a 2010+ term for multihomed server. Before around 1995, almost all Internet-related storage was “cloud”, with people using terminals and terminal emulators connecting to the mainframe servers that hosted their storage.

And yet, even back then, people stored local data on floppy disks because sometimes you needed something when your online storage wasn’t available for one reason or another.

We’ve seen it in movies; we’ve seen it in gaming; we saw it starting in music right around when Apple stepped in with the iTunes music store, and then the music execs saw an uptick they didn’t want to lose. When Apple pivoted to streaming, they no longer had much of a say; ClearChannel/iHeartRadio had already consolidated OTA streaming and they had nowhere left to go.

It’s much easier to prevent the likes of Netflix than to stand up a united opposition to it and succeed — especially with the spectre of monopoly regulation sitting back stage.

Funny how so many people took that. Pointing out that people are, as a whole, racist, and that it influences how they think about the homeless gets turned into a “here’s my bigotry coming out to tell you why it won’t work.”

I guess I could have framed it more clearly, but once the mods removed it, I figured people would just move on.

Others have covered the main bits. But as someone else who has often been treated as young… it’s also possible to roll with it. Talk less and when you do talk, make it more about reflecting what someone says back to them. Then you’ll be perceived as young and smart instead of young and naive.

But I personally enjoy the fact that at over half a century, I can still hang out with people of any age and they feel like they can be themselves with me. Even if people in their 70s still treat me like a child.

If it works, why not? Better than what most places are currently trying.

I’m pretty sure ALL reasons are bad reasons? It doesn’t stop humans from generally being racist when it comes to housing. Which is a shame; you grow a lot more as a person when you live next to people from other cultures.