Constantly. Usually it takes the form of reducing topics to binary choices and/or purity tests.

• “You’re either with me or against me / You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem”
  • Where “part of the solution” means doing exactly, and only exactly what they think you should be doing.
• “If you don’t satisfy all of my impossible requirements, you’re as bad as a nazi”
• “We only agree on 99 out of 100 things, so clearly you’re not to be trusted”
• etc

I agree, but so does SMS/MMS. I’m only comparing apples to apples as far as the default messaging experience on the device is concerned.

I mean, RCS as a technology is fine. Just needs Google and Apple out of the mix. If it wants to replace SMS, it needs to be a carrier-run system.

You herd the group of cats that are all my friends, family, and work colleagues and get them to use a standard app that’s not Facebook Messenger. 😆 You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t wait.

RCS, seriously? Not sure how that is outside the US, but it’s a total non-starter if you’re not using your phone in a Google-blessed configuration. Rooted? No RCS for you. No Google Play Services? No RCS for you. Don’t like “Google Messages” and want to use any other messaging app? Believe it or not, no RCS for you.

Maybe if the day ever comes where Google is excised from the RCS infrastructure it’ll be a viable option, but as it stands ( at least in the US where I have experience with it), it’s definitely not a replacement for SMS.

Did she? Or did Michelle Obama do it and she’s just plagiarizing it?

but it was removed by automod (?)

This community only allows news articles.

I was on a Pat Benatar kick a few months ago. This may have just reignited it. Thanks?

Deaf people also have a lot more experience compensating for / adjusting to the loss of that particular sensory input.

Yes. In many jurisdictions, it’s illegal to use any kind of headphones while driving.

Please tell me they have to give me a paper ballot if I ask.

Is Optimus Prime the original “boob windows” ?

Yeah. I read a bit more since I commented, and Alton Brown doesn’t just approve - he actually helped design it.

The cost of those is definitely why I still have a mono-vection oven haha.

I’m not a fan of single-purpose appliances (microwave notwithstanding), and I recently got a toaster oven / air fryer / grill (so no microwave) and I love it. Haven’t used my full size oven in the 3 months I’ve had this one.

The “Trivection Oven” (as seen on 30 Rock) is a real appliance, and includes microwave heating as one of the 'vections. I believe the microwave heating is just to speed up cooking with the thermal and convection heat for crisping.

Are they a gimmick? Honestly, no clue. I’ve not used one, but the logic checks out and Alton Brown approves.

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Because if we don’t build and profit from the Torment Nexus, someone else will

Bryan Cranston kind-of? He had some minor movie roles before television and then larger movie roles after.

Will Ferrell, technically. Plus most of the other SNL actors who started there and did films later (though many of those were based on SNL skits). Tina Fey, though, plays it straight. She started as a writer, joined the cast of SNL, and did TV and movies later. Granted, I wouldn’t call any of them “movie stars”.

GoTG: Vol 2

“I don’t know the answer to that question. Try asking your local librarian.”

“Poor”

Oh, I’m sorry to hear that!

“No, I mean pour.”

or clean the coffee pot.

That was my go-to before I went WFH (in a way, still is, but it’s my kitchen now lol). I’d clean the whole prep area in the break room, actually. Would even descale the Keurig because no one else ever did.