Oh they’ll come back down, for sure.

On the starliner, or on a SpaceX rescue ship is the question. Lol.

Yeah but he got a bitchin soundtrack

People have been coping for so long it’s practically a genre in literature. People are convincing themselves so hard that immortality is a curse, yet literally zero people have actually experienced it.

Humanity’s sourest grapes.

It kind of is. It’s an extra variable introduced to account for a bunch of things that aren’t adding up.

Aether was the same thing, until people discovered electromagnetic fields. People knew light was a wave. Waves travel faster through more solid mediums. Light is pretty damn fast. Space is pretty empty.

Things didn’t add up. Light is simultaneously traveling through possibly the stiffest material in the known universe while also through nothing at all. People had to come up with Aether to try to explain that.

It was wrong, but it was an obvious placeholder acknowledging that something huge is missing from our current theories.

Imagine being assigned to the most reliable ship in your country’s navy

Stainless? Us REAL chumps are using rusty screws salvaged from the junkyard!

Well, we know Google won’t get rid of this.

They’ll only cancel it after it actually works and becomes useful

Apparently this shit happened in the 80s and early 90s and the accusations are coming out now

Glass back is a premium design feature because it breaks easily, and customers who buy premium phones are expected to be rich enough to just buy another phone.

It’s a profit making feature.

Much like luxury cars, nobody actually expects BMW or Mercedes to last more than 3 years. People who buy them are expected to trade up for the latest model every few years.

Same with luxury fashion. Absolutely some of the cheapest and fragile clothing I’ve ever seen come from big fashion brands. And nobody cares, because by the time they break, they’re out of style and the buyer will be updating their wardrobe anyways.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, expensive luxury items = cheap and breakable. Midrange products are where the customers tend to be concerned with longevity and value.

The “Metro” area generally refers to the main city and any other high density cities right beside it, probably linked together by high volume public transit with massive numbers of people commuting between each other every day. It would be pretty typical to live in City A, work in City B, and meet with friends or have dinner in City C all in one day.

The “Greater” area generally refers to a much wider area including many of the much smaller towns that even people in the same country won’t recognize, rural farmland, etc. Their economies and business are probably mostly dependent on the main city so they may be considered linked, even though there aren’t as many people moving back and forth between them daily. So someone living in Town D might commute into City A for work, but almost nobody living in city A/B/C is commuting out to town D for work.

They should just start their own Supercharger company… With blackjack and hookers

In case you weren’t aware, the Sopranos is also fictional.

The person who set him up? Himself!!!

dun dun DUNNNNNN

What if they just had an entire zoo where every animal was just a dog with dyed fur

Ebikes have arguably been one of the biggest boons to cycling in general. Many people who often wouldn’t have cycled at all are now getting on bikes, and many more people who would have taken a car for a particular trip due to distance or hills are now also taking their ebikes instead.

Ebikes have probably gotten more people riding bikes than anything else on the list.

Strange how Google became the default search engine back in the day because they were so good at filtering out the dumb websites that just spam search terms all over the page.

They’ve regressed and become Yahoo

It also lets them have a US military base in the middle East, where just about every other country hates the US

I tried to hold out, but for my current phone I prioritized camera quality over headphone jack. I definitely use the cameras more than the headphones.

With that being said, those two features are essentially mutually exclusive. Good cameras are a “flagship” feature, whereas lacking headphone jacks are also a flagship “feature.”

The only exception is Sony, which unfortunately is very overpriced.

At this point China is more reputable than Toyota when it comes to battery technology.

Toyota has been promising solid state tech “within 5 years” for the past 15 years.

Whereas Chinese companies like CATL and BYD basically make an announcement and then ship products within a year.

Japan is the worst for this. They are obsessed with individually wrapping everything. You want to buy a box of cookies? Plastic packaging for the whole thing. Plastic tray that helps separate and display each individual cookie, so less than 50% of the space is actually used… And each cookie has its own plastic packaging.

I didn’t go and buy M&Ms but I wouldn’t be surprised if each one was in its own sealed plastic.