Living in a bubble refers to a situation where a person is isolated from different ideas or experiences, often surrounding themselves only with like-minded individuals and avoiding exposure to diverse perspectives.

In context they should be sure, because they’re right.

There was a period where, if you went looking for a “lightweight” Linux distribution as a layperson, everything pointed to Ubuntu. Actually, that period saw Linux and Ubuntu be synonymous to those same laypeople.

It was one of the popular new flavors of the time but anybody who knew to dig deeper would’ve easily found Mint recommended as a truly lightweight distro.

Nah, I like real American cheese. It’s not really a grilled cheese without American cheese.

Yep, that’s real American cheese! Best cheese for sandwiches and grilled cheese.

This is how I feel about American cheese, but the real stuff. Not the crap Kraft sells (other than their deli style slices).

A slice of real American cheese melted on anything is amazing!

Yep. I go to Costco now because I’m blind in one eye so the correction is only for the other eye. Costco only charges me 50% of the normal lens cost and the blind eye just gets a balance lens (weight matched to the other without correction).

I’ve walked out with a brand new pair of lenses and frames for $30 after my eye “insurance”.

FYI, Ray Ban is just a brand name owned by the same company that owns most well known glasses brands.

Once you realize how consolidated the eyeglass industry is its a lot harder to find truly independent brands.

It was a jokey, throwaway comment that wasn’t intended to have a lot of depth or promote introspection, so you’re right. Continuing the discussion is meaningless, yet here we are.

2% total weight of flour, and Subway’s was 10%.

That’s why I put “bread” in quotes. I was poking fun at the court ruling about subway’s bread not being bread legally because of the amount of flour weight that was sugar.

Truth, though I wonder how many grams of carbohydrates do you suppose that “bread” has?

They’re probably right for the wrong reason.

Just did this myself. I had a collection of regular watches that I went back to and I’m loving it.

I also just bought a DAP for music and already have an XTEink X4 ereader. Slowly moving to get rid of a mart phone all together.

lol

artificial scarcity

That’s called “lack of demand”

Only a little over 10% of Americans have an e-reader and their popularity is declining.

E-ink screens will continue to be niche technology without the advantages of increased development by competing manufacturers.

Way back in the early 2000s cellphones varied greatly. All the designs and models that were available and all pretty distinctive. Today the market is almost exclusively touch screen smart phones; evolutions of the early designs by Apple, HTC, Samsung etc.

Three years later the first iPad was released and that same year Samsung released the Galaxy Tab.

Widespread adoption and competition drives development.

The market works the other way. You want a lot of adoption at the mobile level which will drive development faster and then those developments can be scaled up.

The iPad exists, in part, because of the iPhones specifically and the development of touch screen mobile technology in general.

I don’t have a side in this but both my ‘93 Ford Escort and my ‘01 Ford Crown Victoria would turn on the A/C compressor if you hit the Defrost button for the windshield.

Edit: Just searched it and I think you two are in a semantic misunderstanding.

Yeah, my experience has been the same which is why I wanted to clarify.

Most of those electronics are new though, and we don’t have a way to compare apples to apples. It’d be nice if manufacturers still offered a truly base model like they did decades ago.

is one of the main reasons why new cars today aren’t as reliable as ones from the early 2000’s.

I’m curious about the data that supports this claim? I’ve often heard people lament how cars have “gotten worse” or aren’t “as reliable” as they used to be but I recently read an article from Worse on Purpose that highlights how cars are better manufactured than they used to be.

Or are you using reliability to refer to the accessories and features newer cars have that can fail or require more difficult repair without actually impacting a modern vehicles primary function of transport?

Why are they a rube?

Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.

Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already), official_name:en-US=* should be added/changed to Lake America, but name=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).

Note: emphasis is mine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkalemia

Hyperkalemia is rare among those who are otherwise healthy.

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