While not a trans man, I have a great many friends that are - and all of them have really struggled with the social isolation men face. “It shouldn’t be like this” no shit dude, but this is unfortunately what you signed up for and it’s gonna be a fuck of a lot of work to fix it, welcome to the team.

Geographically it can be better because queer folks tend to stick together, but outside of queer spaces… yeah, it’s rough out there.

sure but… boliva doesn’t have nukes

SMCF is trollin’ as usual and this one really seems to have landed.

Does it? I thought mbin just tallied up the votes to get that number, I wasnt aware it was a tracked value for the fediverse.

Yes, those are all great points that make up a good portion of why they should probably revisit the design.

While noble, that was a tongue in cheek diminutive and I was including myself in that category.

Wildly appropriate username here. Also, 100% correct.

5.6 - 9 - 5.6
hip - waist - bust

If it’s good enough for girls it’s good enough for phones

It slightly does me, given that the Air was (apparently) a huge commercial flop. You’d think they’d revisit the soundly mocked design instead of recycling it, or at least change it? The renders may very well be overstating it, of course, but still it’s an odd feature to carry over.

But it’s not stupid thin, it’s got a giant lump on it?

The marketing about it being an incredibly thin phone was a misstep - it just looked absurd to have such a chunky lump stuck onto it, and it felt very much like they were attempting a have cake / eat cake situation by claiming it had incredible camera stats (which werent very good) to justify the bump on an otherwise amazingly thin phone, and then that giant electronics bump had an external lens on it too.

Had it just been an ugly phone, I doubt it would have met with anywhere near the same criticism, but all the adcopy about how thin it was overtop of photos where you could see it had a giant lump on it felt really dishonest, and if this article is accurate it may count among the biggest apple flops ever.

(The thickness may just need to be accepted at this point. The S25 Ultra is 8.2mm, which is thinner than the Air if you include the bump. It seems like the camera wasnt the issue then, but that they hamstrung their design team with their drive for a thin phone. What elegance might even an extra millimeter of chassis space produced?)

I’m so confused about how this makes you a dickhead…

would love a post-mortem on the dead cybertruck. The asshole neighbor’s cybertruck hasn’t died from moisture yet, despite all the times someone has re-aimed the graywater lawn sprinklers to hose down his parking space. Could use some tips for being more effective.

(as the other commenter pointed out they don’t have a physical rain sensor they use elons favorite thing, computer vision. This predictably doesn’t work.)

Assuming he’s right (and boy, being sued by apple is a huge boost to his credibility), they’re keeping the stupid camera bump thing from the air???

That’s not what a carwash mode is. Most electric vehicles have a car wash mode - and many modern pseudo-luxury ICE cars have it too - it disables the drive so you can be dragged thru on the conveyor primarily, and also turns off features like the automatic windshield wipers. It’s a mode, not sensor based, because the drives disabling and windshield wipers turning off are not fun surprises.

(Teslas have a rain sensor for their automatic wipers, a much touted (and predictably barely functional) feature.)

My dad is Buddhist

Well fuck me, didn’t see THAT ruling coming. Maybe someone should check they’ve not come down with some severe illness, like a brain tumor or morals

(To be clear to anyone reading, you may want to explain your quotes are from the article)

While it’s true the total number of reports is higher than the count for individual pieces of content, it’s hardly a “shit misleading headline” given that the count of content reported is still 22x higher than this time last year (74559 vs 3252 individual pieces of content).

Ars has a pretty good point, and oddly the only reason it’s 80x higher is that in 2024h1 they had 1/3 as many reports as reported content, and in 2025h1 the reported content to number of reports is pretty much 1:1. That disparity is interesting, and I would like to know more. If only someone had written quite a good article about it that goes into much greater depth about the causes.

(they also explicitly list the numbers I cite here, in context with the report numbers - so doing a better job than I am. I encourage people to read the article on this one, its actually quite good)

Black tea refers to the visible degree of oxidation of the tea leaves - yellow, white and green teas all do the same thing. Similarly, white grapes are called that because they produce white (clear) liquid (though it’s clearly yellowish so they should really be called yellow grapes…).

What? They’ve been talking about features that are now being called the “kill switch” for the better part of a year. Literally all they did that’s new was give it a dumb name.

Thank you! I very much appreciate the kind words. I hope you have a very good day!