I think this bit of nuance is important and easy to overlook: these numbers are about profit margins, which doesn’t necessarily translate to market size. Individual grocery stores generally run on thin margins, but Kroger is huge because their stores are EVERYWHERE. Everyone needs to eat. Our world needs energy, and we largely use oil to supply it. Drugs help us live longer. Etc etc etc.

Scientific articles are not nearly as ubiquitous in day to day life. They have have a huge profit margin and still be relatively small because their sales volume is low.

I know they can be scummy, but this is so not an apples to apples comparison.

Next time add cheese tortellini 😋

Maybe user replaceable phone batteries are making a comeback, but with the way my phone is pretty much sealed up I wouldn’t trust myself to not break it. I’d also be leery of a third-party replacement lithium battery of unknown quality (let’s be honest, that’s what you’ll probably end up with) charging right next to my head while I sleep. Saying that as someone whose friend had a lithium battery fire with her laptop.

Point is, the argument of “why would you try to save your battery by not using it when it has the same net effect of less battery?” is pretty short-sighted.

I keep my car charged to 80% to help with battery degradation, and here’s why:

• Most days, I don’t use more than 30% of my battery capacity (roughly 75 miles/120km). Even that’s high. I don’t care if that means I go from 100%->70% or 80%-50% when I’ll charge back up again overnight

• It’s not a permanent setting! If I do go on a longer trip, I’ll bring it back up to 100% and not sweat it!

From what I’ve heard, charging beyond 80% increases the degradation rate, meaning time spent at that level is an important part of the equation. If I keep my phone plugged in overnight and at my desk, I have a lot of time at full charge that I’m not really using, but if I know I’m flying that day or running errands all day I can pop it up to 100% and it will be a non-degraded 100%

I’ve had my S20 far longer than my car and never did limit its charge. It’s fine for me, but the battery is sure showing its age.

To get the sweet yet acidic flavor, I would try a small drizzle of something like red wine vinegar. It wouldn’t add much body to the sandwich, but it can really give a great flavor.

If you want more than meat and bread and don’t want tomato… Cucumber would add some body with a weak neutral flavor.

I remember when technology was fun and exciting.

To be fair, it’s USB-C and you might have better luck with that.

I enjoy the food and the recipes have a pretty good variety. They tout the fact that you can keep the recipes and make them again with ingredients you get the old fashioned way, but there’s always that one obscure ingredient (of which you only need a little) that makes it tricky. They expect you’ll have some ingredients on hand, like butter (lots of butter, actually…)

And of course, with the preparation of dividing things out, extra packaging, shipping, etc… It does get expensive. That’s a large part of what held me back from getting it routinely. I also remember some pricing/customer service shenanigans that were annoying but can’t remember what.

But when my daughter was in NICU long-term (doing well now!) a friend abroad got us a gift card or whatever to help us with meals. It was pretty nice for that unique time.

Oh, please. People who have never left their home in their entire life probably wouldn’t. Why would someone who stopped leaving their house lose their favorite? I haven’t lived in my hometown in 20 years, but I still have a favorite park from there. My vegan friend once said she misses lobster. Someone who lost their hearing could still have a favorite song.

Just because life circumstances change, doesn’t mean they have no memory of how things used to be.

Do me a favor: go to what was once (or still is) your favorite park and take a cool photo. Using your phone is fine, but I want you to take a few minutes to find a cool subject/perspective/composition combination. Maybe consider coming back if the sun isn’t at the best angle when you go there the first time.

Show me what you come up with!

Don’t forget about the vice versa!

Brian… Johnson? 🤔

You’re*

We typically call the other one gauze.

You’re good! Bandage is the “correct” term, band-aid is a brand but commonly used on other brands as well. If you kept it to the first half I would have had no idea English isn’t your first language

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure. In theory, sure: the initial question assumed initial (presumably clothed) attraction. You’ve got the body parts I enjoy between the sheets. Let’s give it a try!

But also, I’m a dumb human with dumb human hangups that shouldn’t matter, but do. Maybe this person is everything I wanted and I could never turn that down; maybe there’s a mental block I just can’t get around despite my best efforts

Being already married and stuff aside, as a straight cisgender male I would honestly have a hard time with it. Like, my parents’ neighbor is a trans woman and I’d be lying if I denied noticing her (covered) boobs when she was hanging out in the back yard. But if I’m going to have a romantic relationship with someone, there are physical traits that attract me and others that don’t… And I would need to be attracted to my partner, both with what’s typically visible in public and what isn’t.

It’s nothing personal, and I truly hope their new body (whatever that may be) works for them and they find the love they want. It’s just not what I’m after.

To use the cliche as a tl;dr, it’s not you, it’s me.

You do understand that was one of many very relatable examples?

With COTS products like Microsoft Office, it’s different because the government is just a customer, not the owner of the development.

That’s the point I’m trying to make though. I’m a contractor, and that’s super common in government because they don’t pay their own a whole lot. The government is my company’s customer. Why can’t we be the owner of the development and that would justify it being closed source? If we can, the same could apply to anyone else and the whole conversation is moot because of a contractor loophole (which you’d have to be careful in closing to avoid closing yourself off to COTS products)

There’s a line to be drawn. For one thing, some stuff has obvious sensitivity that needs to be considered (national security and such). But aside from that… I’m a software developer who works as a contractor for the government. My product is used for and exclusively by the agency I work for, and they paid for it. Its contents would bore people to tears, but aside from that, should it be open sourced when complete? I can’t think of any reason why not.

Now, let’s think about other software the government pays for. Stuff like Microsoft Office and other COTS (commercial off the shelf) products. The government pays for that too, should they be required to make all their source code public in order to have the government as a customer? How do you draw the line in a way that doesn’t leave a loophole for people like me, if I didn’t want my source to be opened?