I have bad hearing so I mostly just mispronounce words…

Making it easier to contribute is the main thing. I don’t use git or discord, so I usually try to find an email address, if none is available I move on.

I’m glad you have had a good experience with yours, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. I’ve been using the same pair of wired earbuds for 18 years (2004-2022), not being careful at all with them… They went through countless times in the laundry machine during my teenage years when I forgot them in the pocket and never had a problem… While both pairs of wireless earbuds I have had died within less than 18 months when I was careful with them.

That’s why I won’t be buying wireless junk. Even if they are cheaper than they used to be, they are less reliable and become ewaste quickly due to their hard to repair designs.

The only pair of repairable earbuds I am aware of are the galaxy buds live (the ones that look like kidney beans), but they don’t stay in my ear, so I didn’t buy it.

What if the genie takes it as “this mortal shouldn’t be constraint by their moral guidelines, but should use my sensibilities instead…”

If you’ve got an evil genie, this would suck… But a more benign genie might think that it would be the best if you got a whole lot of figs as your wish, because that genie loves figs.

Most wireless earbuds will become useless bricks since they are designed to be really hard to repair and batteries degrade with charge cycles. So while you can get an earbud on a budget, they will need to be replaced much more frequently than a wired pair of earbuds at the same price.

I have potato hardware, so I can’t help you compare, but phoronix did a lot of benchmarks…

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d-linux/9

I looked at the list… It seems that almost all of them are mid/low budget phones, while high end phones rarely come with a jack. As much as it pains me to say it, it makes sense, since people who buy expensive phones probably can afford a wireless set while people who buy budget phones are less likely to buy wireless headphones.

If you came there by yourself or with one other person and didn’t buy anything, she would probably be right… But if you’re in a group, you’re fine not to buy anything.

Either way, she’s a dick for embarrassing you in front of the rest.

Most android phones don’t have these… The only brands I have seen that still make phones with headphone jacks are Asus and Sony…

The book explains how genes are only ‘concern’ with their own replication and survival… Of course genes aren’t intelligent and have actual desires, but genes that are beneficial to their own survival and spread are going to be common in the gene pool, not based on the greater organism or the species.

Even with that, it creates a condition where these selfish genes benefit from cooperation… The critters who act altruistically in the right circumstances will benefit and increase the survivability of their genes.

Also what you mentioned about things being tough causing people to betray each other… This is also discussed both from a prisoner’s dilemma (multiple versions of it), and in biology and other game theory examples.

Highly recommended read, and if you do pick it up, I hope you read the latest edition of the book published in 2016, which has extra commentary from the author which is also interesting.

FYI: In this book, Richard Dawkins invented the word meme to rhyme with gene, describing the evolution and spread of ideas… Little did he know, back in the 70’s when he wrote the book, that the word he invented to describe the evolution of ideas would evolve into the memes we know today.

There is a book named The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins that talks about this and how this can explain altruistic behaviour. Highly recommended.

I learned that too… knowing what to do in an emergency also reduces the level of panic you experience while you do it.

Exactly. I’ve never actually seen anyone do mouth to mouth in real life, only in movies.

CPR. You may not think about it in your day to day life, but in an emergency it’s a very low hanging fruit to save someone’s life. If someone is not breathing, chest compressions baby… go to town.

That’s great news. Hope they all take it to heart and put hard lines on how a studio operates to prevent it from becoming another MAPPA.

Interesting, I didn’t even know there is a modlog.

Let’s test that one…

removed.

Edit::What do you know, it was actually filtered.

I see. I don’t mind filters that remove racist or homo/transintolerant slurs, that’s keeping a community safer and inclusive rather than enforcement of politeness.

A filter? Let me test it right now…

Fuck.

Unless this is a shadowban type filter, it seems to not be there…

I’ve had the same pair of earbuds since 2003, but they kicked the bucket two years ago. That would make it 18 years. As a teen I was very careless with them, regularly forgot them in the pocket and they went through countless trips through the washing machine and dryer, so I am amazed they lasted that long.