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Because there’s no market for it. The fact they don’t sell cases with keyboards while they do sell things like backbone makes it incredibly clear not many actually want this. Swipe typing is very fast once you’re good at it.

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I have a crap ton of things I really want but would never choose to spend the money on myself and wait for it as a gift. That’s basically the entire point of gifts imo, getting things you want but can’t justify spending the money on.

I would call that enthusiast level rather than rich person. It’s not more than a decent drone or camera or many other technology hobbies. Less than half the price of a ps5 or meta quest 3.

Sure, you could argue it probably has less function and replay value than those. But it’s still not ludicrously expensive if you REALLY want it.

Reception Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 76 critics’ reviews are positive. The website’s consensus reads: “A family affair both on screen and behind the camera, Kate Winslet’s directorial debut stacks the deck for tears a little too lopsidedly, but honest performances help put this drama’s heart firmly in the right place.”[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating “mixed or average” reviews.[12]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that Goodbye June is “a well-intentioned and starrily cast yuletide heartwarmer, like a two-hour John Lewis Christmas TV ad without the logo”, but criticised its “treacly soup of sentimentality” and “cartoony quasi-Richard Curtis characterisation” that feels unreal.[13]

https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

This always gets to me.

“Contaminated water is a major source of disease, including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. It is estimated that contaminated water kills about 829,000 people every year, making it one of the world’s biggest killers. The cost to provide clean water and waste disposal for everyone on earth would be about $240 billion, or 8% of the wealth controlled by the 400 richest Americans.”

He alone could fund clean water and plumbing to the entire world. Without changing his lifestyle at all.

Not one city.

Not one state.

Not one country.

The world.

Billionaires are disgusting and don’t deserve to be called human.

"These programs combined would completely transform our world. By redistributing this wealth, millions of lives would be saved. Billions would be rescued from poverty and disease. By inconveniencing just 400 people, the entire human race could advance to a new, unprecedented level of development.

And all of them would still be billionaires afterwards."

You don’t go up to someone and say hey I was listening to you complain about wanting a guy, how about me? and expect a good response.

It’s rare, but it’s not a myth.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-distance-running-may-have-evolved-to-help-humans-chase-prey-to-exhaustion-180984354/

Their base is casual gamers where it’s basically the only game they buy each year. The cost is very small in those terms, and they don’t want to be on the old version despite the issues.

Vegetables aren’t even a thing botanically, they’re basically “plant stuff that isn’t fruit”, except when it is.

Botanically speaking, vegetables can be roots (carrots, beets), stems (celery, asparagus), leaves (spinach, lettuce), flowers (broccoli, cauliflower) seeds (peas, beans), and of course fruits that we treat as savory (tomatoes, peppers, eggplants).

And then on the opposite side you have things we call fruits that botanically speaking aren’t. Rhubarb is a stem, strawberries are aggregate accessory fruits where the fleshy part we eat is actually swollen stem tissue, and those little “seeds” on the outside are the real fruits of the plant. Figs are not simple fruits, they’re inverted flower clusters where the “fruit” is actually a hollow stem containing many tiny real fruits inside.

Even apples and pears aren’t true fruits botanically, they’re accessory fruits where much of what we eat comes from the flower’s receptacle rather than just the ovary.

So yeah the botanical vs. culinary divide works both ways. Our everyday food categories are really more about taste, texture, and how we use foods rather than plant biology.

Transportphobia

No discrimination in these cases is based on failing people that should be passing or failing based on higher standards than you’re applying broadly. Not registered until you pass leads to the other issue I said, people intentionally failing to never have to vote. I personally believe being forced to at least turn up at the polling centre makes a significant difference to the final vote. I would rather some small percentage of votes end up not counted as unreadable than 40%+ of the population opt out of voting.

A test when you’re 18 that lasts the rest of your life? Can’t account for future injuries, disability (including those that only happened after testing), old age, or just general annoyance over being at the polling centre and apathy over filling it out well? It’s not going to solve anything.

Anyone can show they can print numbers once off. And what happens if they can’t pass? Are they barred from voting? That’s risky for both the reason of discrimination AND people intentionally failing. Take a mandatory number writing course? For how long? What if someone indefinitely fails?

Unless these people literally didn’t make it to year 6 they’ve already shown they CAN write numbers, read basic instructions and ask someone for help. That doesn’t mean they will always be able to, or always want to.

It won’t meaningfully reduce the number of ambiguous ballots.

You can already get AI strokers that apparently were trained on and sync to videos.

It’s mostly just that. The whole thing was a mess. The atheists were told they would be debating a Christian and prepared as such, but he won’t define himself as a Christian. So much time is wasted dancing around that. They had to change the title from Christian debates to Jordan Peterson debates. On top of that he will barely engage properly, saying things like he won’t entertain a hypothetical because he wouldn’t allow himself to get in that situation in the first place. Just generally not acting in good faith.

They could own a wii you don’t know.

You’re right, the literally 1000s of people going through there daily all tell the same lie. I get you need to follow the protocols of your airport regardless of what another one does. But it would be pretty bloody obvious other ones actually are doing things differently.

But… Don’t they deal with people from all over the country and world constantly? Ignorance can’t be an excuse at that point.

But by who? Musk has said he’s trying to fix the way it responds. If he was just paying people to be Grok it would take some huge balls to dissent like that. He would immediately know who it was.