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I don't turn them off entirely, I kind of enjoy the feeling of momentum animated elements can provide, but I definitely do go in and speed them up massively. I find that when a phone is feeling unresponsive or sluggish, it's usually because I'm moving two steps ahead of the animation and it has to catch up. Feels like tripping on your own feet.

I purchased an iPhone 15 a few months ago and ended up making this discovery myself. CarPlay would refuse to launch unless I enabled Siri. I didn't do any of the Siri setup, or anything but the app would hard refuse to launch unless I went and toggled on Siri. Maybe that's different depending on your make/model, or the specific infotainment system in your car, but in my '21 Kia Forte, Siri is a very hard requirement.

It seems to me that anyone going out of their way to compare current prices against prices from five or more years ago to adjust for inflation is not the average consumer, and shouldn't be juxtaposed as such.

This is a really interesting thing to think about. English is my mother tongue, and I'd never really considered this, it's always just been part of the language.

If I ask my partner to turn the volume "up," I am asking them to literally move the volume knob "upwards" towards the maximum limit. The physical motion doesn't literally track with televisions and remotes, for example, but you're still moving (turning) the volume upwards towards maximum.

That's how it shakes out in my head? You're moving something upwards towards the maximum. More is bigger, bigger is up.


> More is bigger, bigger is up.

In Chinese the past is "up" and the future is "down".

Having gotten that into my head, I now get annoyed by the hotkey controls for mpv, which use up arrows and page up to skip into the future and down arrows and page down to skip into the past.


I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. If you don't understand, you aren't smart enough to and shouldn't try? If you learn slow, just stop because you're... slower? What are you talking about?


Kind of.

Everyone needs to draw a line. Call it an "explore vs exploit" problem, if you want.

Sure, you want to fail a bit so you know where the line is, or to push it forwards a bit. But there is, at least in principal, always a line.

I'm just saying that if someone draws the line in a place that you think is waaaay too soon, maybe they aren't entirely wrong.


Ah, okay, that makes your original comment make more sense. Thank you for the clarification.


"...Flowers said, "I believe personally that guilty people act defensively. If you don't have anything to hide, then it shouldn't be a problem."

Oh boy, back to this crap again. If that's true, for you to be acting this defensively sure is sending some signal.


Baked into that is a presumption of justice, which is becoming comically out of touch to the point where that overused phrase could be a meme.


Someone should go point a webcam at his house. I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem with it.


"I don't need privacy because my actions are questionable, I need privacy because your judgement and intentions are."


Narcissist's first strike: insist that the people preventing them from getting what they want are the problem, and setting the frame. All you can do is refuse to engage them in the frame, and deny them the luxury of shaping the engagement, which tends to fluster them even more.

Hopefully whoever elected this person will have second thoughts and boot them. It's quite clear they are more interested in aggregating power and creating edifi through which to abuse the public than representing them in good faith.


Check his business connections


Are 'working' and 'learning' not part of 'living?'


I am so sorry to piggyback on someone else's comment for this, but this thread has piqued my interest in what I can do to de-smart my 2021 Kia Forte LXS.

Any chance you can get the service manual for it? I appreciate it, even if you can not.


It was a big enough deal that Nintendo put out advertisements in 1990 [0], asking people to not use "a Nintendo" to refer generically to other video game systems, specifically out of fear of genericization.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5m9grz/theres_no_...


I believe they meant "why people are so up in arms about the developer being so strict about enforcing their trademark," not "why are people upset that the port author is being deceptive."


Ahh, that reframe makes a lot more sense


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