Whoa. Yep, I’d call that…like, the dictionary definition of reading the room. Yikes.
Whoa. Yep, I’d call that…like, the dictionary definition of reading the room. Yikes.
This is such a dangerous stereotype. Yes honkwiching used to use trombones, but now most musicians use specially-designed, food-safe disposable honkers. Trombone players aren’t savages.
If they really wanted me to whitelist them in my adblocker, they’d make the ads less onerous.
It’s not as uncommon as sitcoms make it seem. My wife–brilliant, hilarious, way smarter and better at things than I am–would probably think it was hilarious, too. It wouldn’t work for our situation (we got together too early in life for it to be believable), but I wouldn’t expect any backlash.
I would expect payback in-kind, though.
Actually it went really well. The wife thought it was hilarious, according to the husband.
“I can’t decide what amused her more… the effort I put into the ruse or the fact that I ended up proving her right in the process. […She said] ‘Next time you can save $100 and just assume you’re wrong.’”
I recognize why power banks can’t charge and discharge simultaneously. But surely, with as cheap as integrated circuits and voltage regulators are, we can have a power bank that can be charged while it redirects some power around its cells to a device on the other side?
Sure, both would charge at half the speed. But if you only have one brick, it’s better because you don’t have to swap the cables halfway through. Plus, if your phone charges faster than the power bank (which it almost certainly will), you can unplug it at full charge before the power bank is done and let the bank finish- or unplug both and have a fully charged phone and a partially charged power bank.
Made even better, what if we integrated a power bank into a GaN charging brick? Plug it into the wall, use it to charge your devices every night, the smarts inside it regulate the battery with charge/discharge cycles; but then when you’re ready to go somewhere you just unplug it from the wall, flip the prongs back inside, and go. Maybe you could even push a button to tell it to charge to full. It would also be a UPS of sorts, since it wouldn’t know the difference between a power outage and you taking it on tour. Yeah, it would need to be kinda big and bulky when it’s on the wall, but the convenience of not needing to track it down and plug it in before you go on vacation would be worth the hassle of needing to plug it into the bottom outlet on a power strip. Something about the size of a MacBook charger, but with all the high-wattage stuff swapped out for battery cells.
Why are the capitalists so complainy?
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps 😤, facts don’t care about your feelings 😤, Apple is mean make them stop it 😭”
I mean, they are a close second. Meta is maintaining a comfortable lead, but give Twitter a few more Bluesky hemorrhage cycles.
The reasoning he went through on that was hilarious. It’s definitely something that a person stuck on Mars would think about.
Look at Mr. Fancypants here, living in a place with a functional judiciary
You are probably correct. I mean, in reality neither is true until and unless the SCOTUS were to weigh in (so, just take a wild guess at what they’d choose?), but I would bet that’s the justification they would use.
Yeah right ok but again, money. And Money creates around it a legality-distortion field.
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. We’re there. Be careful.
Careful with your satire, folks. He’s got money, and people with money tend to be pretty quick on the “defamation lawsuit” trigger.
Edit: I’m not saying don’t. Please do. But be careful about what you say, and where you post it; and probably stay as anonymous as you can when/if you do.
This was a plot point in the recent Flash movie.
I Don’t Want That. No one wants that. I want to use voice control to do things that are hard to do, like turn lights on and off when my hands are full or play music while I’m making dinner. For all other use cases, screens and buttons are always better.
There are of course the basics—limit blue light exposure, have a wind-down time, only use your bed for sleep, caffeine cutoff after #pm (some people say 5, some people say 3, I think this is entirely body-dependent). Melatonin supplements can also help. Soothing sounds, of course.
Beyond that, everyone is different.
I found that reading is useful (get an e-ink reader or a paper book to avoid screen distractions and blue light throwing your rhythms off).
I also found that not trying to sleep when I can’t is useful; when I’m laying in bed and can’t fall asleep, I go and do the dishes or read on the couch for a half hour, and then try again.
For me, turning the temperature down also helps. I let the house get down below 64° at night; saves me money (thermal battery effect in summer, less furnace usage in winter), and helps tell my body I should be in sleeping mode.
A few years ago, I also had a sleep study and discovered that I have sleep apnea. Now, the process of putting on the mask at night also helps get my body ready to sleep. That’s in addition to the better sleep quality and more infrequent wakeups.
Also, you might just be trying to sleep too early for your body’s natural rhythm. Maybe your work schedule doesn’t allow you to change that, but if you can, try pushing your bedtime back a little bit. Not everyone needs to sleep from 10-6; some people are just more naturally able to sleep from 12-8.
Good luck, and good night.
I prefer “sackbut.”