neptune

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is an overstatement. My first smartphone was an old Sony in 2014 and it was good.

My second phone was a crappy Samsung in 2017 and it was bad. Slow data rates. Horribly over saturated photos.

My third smartphone was a pixel 2 and it was remarkable. Better battery life than I was used to. The photos looked amazing.

Then the released the night mode feature and I realized I had never seen a good phone Pic taken in a bar, but I was, on last year's hardware taking decent photos in dive bars...

Then pixel eventually started supporting portrait mode. That was cool.

But really? Apps and websites have gotten so bloated with shit we don't realize how capable phone processors have become. If the data on websites now had been this way in 2013? Forget about it. People would have hated smartphone.

Progress on cameras has been pretty obvious. Batteries and screen size slightly less obvious. But I feel the counter acted gains on processor speeds have gone unnoticed. Phones have changed in the past ten years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ricky's malapropisms are always A+

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't actually write Ring of Fire

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The shock value is the point. It's supposed to juxtapose how the #alllivesmatter people feel about 9/11 VS deaths at the hands of police. The point of the meme is NOT that those 3000+ lost are not valuable, rather that #alllivesmatter is insensitive, not the point, and not useful.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yes obviously you'd bother suffer.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why I wasn't categorical. But I mean you proved my point. If your wife died she'd be the one who suffered and died. Not you.

The point is, politics being like the super bowl is a privilege for some. For others it's life and death. It's almost like saying "Keep politics out of my life" is a relatively lucky/conservative request or point of view.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I was mildly flippant. But I am a straight white guy, so you know, I'm not really punching up or down here?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't leave the beach without a coffee mug shaped like mammary glands

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I feel like OP is suggested a world where you pay $5 a month to use Facebook, but you get the premium version for free if you sign off your rights. Maybe not a whole lot would change, except a higher awareness of the business model.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Some foods do have specific, regional character. Is the milk or yeast from the next county over going to make a cheese that tastes the same? Idk but you can get very similar styles of cheese made elsewhere.

That all being said, I can see why calling same thing Parmesan when it's not from Parma, is not entirely truthful, if consumers care about origin. Which in the EU they certainly do.

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