I think they were because this is a new account created 2 days ago.

Yeah, I thought I knew there were bikes that fold, but I didn’t say because I don’t want to say what I don’t know.

The engineer in me is wondering if there’s a way to make a bike with telescoping parts. But the frame is one of the biggest parts, and I always see those three bars welded. It seems like if you go beyond removing the wheels, and maybe the handlebars, you’re going to get most bikes about as small as they can get. I’m wondering if the frame can be broken down (and maybe the wheels somehow) and if the loss in strength will make the bike less stable/trustworthy and if a more active mountain biker who is hitting real trails would even trust such a contraption, considering you’d only break it down maybe once a year tops… it would have to be something you’d do often.

I’m not a journalist. I don’t record conversations I have with people IRL. I’ve talked to Trump voters and they believe what he’s doing will pay off in the long run, and that it’s worth it to see immigrants and “the gays” “getting theirs”.

I don’t know how to “cite” that other than to say people have told me that, who unironically support Trump. There’s this whole outside world beyond “links” and “web pages.” We can’t dispute or disregard what our neighbours and coworkers say just because it can’t be linked to.

Friendly reminder that this is the game that launched the same day as the new Animal Crossing, and fans turned it into one of the biggest and best gaming crossovers of all time, spawning gems such as this, despite neither studio embracing or contributing to the crossover officially — it was all fans. There’s a ton of fan-made DOOM and Animal Crossing crossover stuff, and since Animal Crossing lets you create art and display it in the game, DOOM outfits and other decorations remain popular in parts of the community.

If it worked on my computer (Mac), I’d consider getting it, but it’s made by a Microslop company (Bethesda). Might be able to get it on Xbox though.

Good. For a lot of people (Millennials, for example), Tales From the Crypt was their first anthology series, and I remember it being good. I watched The Twilight Zone and Amazing Stories before it. I also watched Red Shoe Diaries, but don’t tell my mother. (That was a softcore/romance anthology series.) Now we have Black Mirror, and of course there are others (American Horror Story and American Crime Story for instance, where each season is its own story rather than each episode). But Tales From the Crypt was legendary in its day, and spawned two movies (Demon Knight, and Bordello of Blood).

How long before they put the Crypt Keeper in Fortnite?

Not by choice.

When I drive with someone else at work (not often but sometimes it happens), they often want to listen to the radio, which means we’re listening to ads for 90% of the trip and then we get one song. And people are okay with that. Fucking mindless drones.

Radio really has gone to shit. If you haven’t listened in a while… the ads are almost worse than going online without an ad blocker. You won’t get a virus or spyware, but you might spend the whole trip listening to ads before you earn the right to hear one censored song. Then you get back in the car and the ads start over again. It really is mostly ads these days. Most radio stations in an area will be owned by the same company, and they sync the ads so you can’t just change the channel.

Nice to see some good news in these trying times

君の名は。

That is all

never understood who they are

“Juggalos” are fans of the rap-metal band Insane Clown Posse. (Juggalettes are the women.) The band isn’t great, though this is subjective. What isn’t, is that they’re more than a band, they’re a culture, and their shows are a spectacle that goes beyond just music.

They are also considered a gang in some US states. I’ve never heard of juggalos/juggalettes in organised crime or any murders associated with juggalo culture, but the fact does remain that they are watched by some states for suspected criminal activity. I wonder if ICP bothers touring in those states. I would guess no, but they might.

On the flip side, it’s worth noting that the guys behind ICP are generally known to be good people who have helped friends and family and are positive members of their communities. You never hear about ICP getting a #MeToo moment like Marilyn Manson did. GWAR either (another band that dresses up and puts on a show that their music is only a part of — GWAR are just a bunch of theatre dorks from Richmond VA who make silly music; ICP try harder, I think, to make “good” rap metal, but they’re still not, I guess, winning Grammys or whatever makes “quality”).

STIs

Honestly the same could be said about any music festival, like Ozzfest, or, going back to the olden days, a Grateful Dead show. Same energy. Crazier outfits, though. But same energy.

Worth looking into bike rental for a vacation. I mean, vs trusting your bike to not get lost or damaged by the airline. It might even be cheaper or at least make more sense to buy an entry level bike while you’re there, and when you leave, donate it to a youth organisation or something.

First one is either chocolate or pasta. I could take or leave other carbs, but pasta gets me fucked up every time. No-consequences chocolate is the bigger win, though.

Second one is chicken. Economically, other food makes more sense (like steak), but chicken is the better protein IMO. As long as discount/on sale doesn’t mean lower quality or expired. If I have to be specific, boneless skinless chicken breasts.

Third is going to be pasta. Since chocolate is the bigger win for the first one, pasta goes here. Now here’s why. Pasta is pretty diverse. We’re talking spaghetti, ravioli, carbonara, alfredo, Mac & Cheese, hell, even ramen! Ramen is the real win here. Imagine breaking open a Cup Noodles or Top Ramen and you’re getting Gyu-Kaku (Japanese steakhouse/ramen chain with locations in the west, so you can find one, maybe) ramen or better. That’s a major cheat code. As for Mac & Cheese, sometimes you just want Kraft Dinner, but it’s always at its best. Bad pasta can still show you some love, but great pasta for free when you eat the cheap stuff?

Third one is badly worded I think. Second one says it will always be inexpensive, but the third one says it’s always high quality… but, it doesn’t say you have to pay the higher price. So it’s a mirror of the second one. Second one will always be cheap, but it’s whatever quality, whereas the third one will always be good at whatever price. I still keep them in those slots though, because I don’t care if my chicken isn’t higher quality. I control that. And while I can make decent to good pasta (maybe even great, but I wouldn’t say excellent, though my wife might), getting “excellent” pasta with no effort? Fuck yeah.

I also noticed “pasta” is very broad and categorical. If I have to specify which pasta… Ramen. Ramen is cheap (like 3-4 for $1) and good ramen is hard to come by. There are like a dozen noodle shops around me, but none of them are very good. I will drive 3 hours to a Gyu-Kaku for their ramen.

TL;DR: Chocolate, chicken, pasta (or ramen if I have to be specific)

It’s a good question. I switched from Android to iPhone in 2016, but if you look at my choices, and you think I chose poorly, you’re a damn fool, and I’m 100% confident saying that. Let’s look at my choices:

Samsung Galaxy S7 (and S7 Edge). This was my top choice, but also, the S7 was the last to have the capacitive buttons. And the back button was on the wrong side. So, kind of shit design. I think the S7 was a pretty good phone though.

LG G5. This was a cool phone that had the bottom you could remove to slide the battery out, and there were different bottoms you could install, like a decent/good DAC. This phone was promising but LG was never really high end. I think the G5 was their last big effort to do something good in the Android space.

HTC 10. A friend of mine went through like a dozen of them in a year because the M7 was cool. They couldn’t find him an HTC 10 that wouldn’t brick itself after a week. That phone made him a loyal iPhone guy. (The M8 made me an iPhone user. It didn’t brick, but it needed to be reflashed every couple weeks.)

Motorola Droid Turbo 2. On paper, it was the nicest/coolest one. My wife chose this and hated it. It just ran like shit. Felt nice in the hand, though.

…and the iPhone 6s. I picked this, intending to switch to the S7 while I had 2 weeks to do so. For a day or two I hated it. After one week, I knew I was not going to switch.

A few years ago, I got a Galaxy S10 to put Nova Prime on and just to run emulators and stuff. My main phone is an iPhone 16 Pro Max. I prefer the S10 for typing and customisation. The iPhone is reliable for everything else, plus the screen is gorgeous. Also, I think I can make this iPhone last me 10 years. So I think my next smartphone will be an Android phone, so the S10 can retire. I never disliked Android. I don’t like Google, and I didn’t like some Android phones. The Galaxy S3 was a legend and I like the S10 almost as much as I liked my S3.

But as a guy who has used the iPhone almost exclusively for 10 years… they have absolutely stagnated. They aren’t doing anything new and exciting. I think they hit a wall performance wise, the gains aren’t that great year after year in anything, so they do dumb shit like the foldable one coming out this year (no offence if you like foldables, I mean it’s gonna be less phone for more money but hey, it folds out into a tablet. And costs more than a comparable phone and an iPad Mini.

To be absolutely clear, I’ll keep the iPhone for the health data and the privacy around that. I’ve never heard of a private health feature on Android. Apple’s privacy is questionable, but they claim it, the others don’t. Still, I like what Galaxy has been doing lately, though I don’t much care for AI. It just seems like they do more. And it’s not even the five cameras. I’m also done with premium models. The S24, S25, and S26 models are the only ones I ever considered. The Plus is too big, and the Ultra doesn’t justify its price increase and I don’t want another big phone. So, I might get an S28, S29, S30, somewhere around there. Just the base model. In black. And throw a Spigen ToughArmor and a Flygrip on it and call it a day.

tl;dr: Yes, some iPhone users are tired of the platform’s stagnation, but also, a lot of iPhone users who leave come back because they also love the consistency. (I think they give up too easily. I started with Android, so I know what to expect, and how to make it mine.)

They believed he’d punish the brown people and the LGBTQ+ community. They’re satisfied with his performance there. Many of them who can afford the cost increases think the higher costs are worth it. They still believe they’re making America better.

Snickers is made by Mars, and their chocolate has always been higher tier than Nestlé and Hershey’s. Mars also makes the (god tier) 3 Musketeers, the Milky Way/Mars (not sure which one is branded Mars in other countries), and their plain chocolate bar is Dove.

I think there’s a Mandela Effect around Dove. I, for one, thought Hershey made Dove at some point. I don’t know why. Hershey’s does have a higher-end chocolate called Symphony, but I haven’t seen it in years. It’s creamier than their regular bar.

Look up Wilton’s chocolate buttercream recipe. It’s cake frosting. But nothing says you can’t eat it on its own. Pipe it into Hershey’s Kiss shaped dollops on a sheet of parchment/wax paper and chill, eat them like little mousse bites. It’s basically a stick of butter, I think 3 cups of sifted powdered/Confectioners sugar, and milk to control the texture/consistency. Some people add vanilla extract — of course, you could hit it with whatever other extract to tweak the flavour a bit. Maybe you want minty chocolate? Peppermint extract. There are options.

Wouldn’t change the facts of the past. Just maybe take some heat off her.

Oof. Didn’t know it went up. We paid a total of $15 and we’re happy with it, but we’ve had the benefit of having used it for the past 16 years.

If the price is too high, Google Keep is pretty good for doing a similar thing.

How? Xbox increased more, and first. And Xbox always did poorly in Japan.

If anyone doesn’t know the history, I think it was NEC, was a big electronics company in Japan that tried to make computers that competed with Windows 95 (because they ran something else, I forgot which) and they got their asses handed to them. So the Japanese have been salty toward Microsoft since then. The grudge has started to fade a bit, but it was still going strong at the start of the Series X|S generation (2020). The problem is twofold: Japanese developers won’t make games for Xbox, only Nintendo and/or PlayStation. And two, gamers aren’t buying Xbox in Japan.

I wonder if Xbox went up at all in Japan. It never moved much there. I wonder if they even bothered installing GamePass CDNs there. I wouldn’t.

Also worth noting, a lot of gamers/power user types in the west have been turning against Microsoft for issues with Windows 11 and Copilot. I got tired of their shit years ago and went to Mac for computers, but I still game on an Xbox Series X.

I do like seeing PlayStation get taken down a peg, because for all Microsoft’s issues, PlayStation has always been more anti-consumer. Trophies exist on PlayStation because Achievements were so popular on Xbox that PlayStation (and Steam) were practically forced to adopt them. Xbox has pushed for cross-play and PlayStation has always rejected it. Backwards compatibility is what the PS2 was known for, and the PS3 did it at first, but since then, they haven’t been as good, whereas Xbox has been great about backwards compatibility. Not perfect but great.

Always meant to check it out, but in the age of streaming and looser ratings, it’s a real shame we didn’t get Carmageddon instead.

Carmageddon was Twisted Metal but for PC. They made family friendly versions for consoles, but they mostly sucked due to the compromises they had to make. And honestly only the first one was any good, but the graphics were ass. There was an HD texture pack for good graphics cards, but honestly, it just looked a little smoother.

I mean… yeah. Everything’s a distraction for something with this administration. They hope you forgot about Greenland, or the failed insurrection in 2020, or, yeah, the Epstein files.

But seriously, it’s not like anybody is getting arrested in the US over the Epstein files. People in other countries are facing consequences, but not in the US.

If you’re in the US, you can be jailed for seeing video or pictures of CSA, while the actual perpetrators being named and shamed in the files are getting away with it. So is the crime the CSA or the knowledge that powerful people are doing it? It should be the CSA. I don’t think people should be able to possess CSAM, but if the people doing it are known and getting away with it, is it a crime to see what they did or is it a crime to know who did it to whom?

Isn’t it standard for a website to be able to detect browser/extensions?

Funny that the name dropping of Chrome in the link summary implies Firefox users are safe.