You’ve hit the nail on the head there.

I had a Flip3 as a way of trying to kick my QWERTY habit, and it was cool as fuck. It’s a great conversation starter (if you like starting conversations!), it’s a lovely form factor to carry in it’s folded state, and no matter what anyone says, it’s satisfying as fuck to end a particularly heated call by slamming the phone shut.

Other than that though… it’s just a decent phone. No better or worse than anything else aside from the irritating bloatware.

The hinge was weak as fuck and two of my devices suffered screen bleed from the hinge, but then that was nearly five generations of Flip ago.

“great start, now go for the lead!” 🏁

I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.

One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.

It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.

Nah.

It was probably unenforceable, and just a scare tactic.

Still absolute mince though.

pure dead mental down the Quay, so it is but

My dentist has had the nerve to add a “lateness will be charged at £1 per minute late” to the end of the reminder SMS messages… which I can understand to a certain degree, but the dentist didn’t really like it when I suggested I get a discount of £1 per minute after the appointment time that the dentist called me through.

I know it’s all bullshit but the double standard baffles me.

That second line sounds like a comedic Bond villain line.

And it’s awesome.

“knock knock”

“Who’s there”

“The interrupting cow”

“The interrupting cow wh…” “MOOOOOOO”

I think that’s a very uncharitable take on the post.

Whereas that lexical interpretation exists, I think OP’s point is “why would anyone work for MrBeast” as opposed to “why did this particular person work for him”.

A dude I used to work with left his wife to deal with the newborn.

It was so bad between dayshifts that he used to leave the house at 2am and just sit in a motorway service station with a coffee for a few hours just to get some peace before coming to work.

If I tried that, my other half would stab me in the face.

Sounds fuckin’ mint to be fair.

Get me some tourism and carbs.

Fancy new Wet Ass Filter

I don’t disagree with you. It’s desperately sad.

edit: I’d made the erroneous assumption this was a reply to a higher level comment.

What is it that you’re suggesting here?

I think this wondering you’re doing is the root cause of your problem.

You’ve come up with an idea that I think there’s any political upsides to war based on some assumption that I haven’t quite figured out yet.

You’ve come up with an entire “rest of it” which doesn’t really follow anything presented in the original post.

Your “gotcha” moment doesn’t exist and is aimed at someone deeply saddened and angered by this pointless war.

No you illiterate fuck, I said I’d pay a little more at the pump to see one of the most narcissistic and dangerous world leaders get knocked down a peg or two on the world stage.

It’s soul destroying seeing the human cost of such a conflict, but your virtue signalling is both misplaced and ineffective.

Yeah nah probably about a day or two.

I’m in a very very privileged position to be able to say this, but I am more than happy to pay a little bit extra at the pump and on my gas bill, just for that colossal fuckwomble to be shown up on the world stage for being a weapons grade tosser.

Is it childish? Yes. Does it make me feel slightly better about the world? Also yes.

That’s a Pearl Abyss and a half

didn’t even know 'um

iShouldNotHaveSaidThat

NoFilter

AITW or AmITheWeirdo

ShouldHaveStoppedTalkingHalfHourAgo

WhyAreYouLikeThis

NonSequitur

…I will admit to having not checked any of these for availability on any instance, nor do I suggest any that are better than others or even if they’re good at all!