[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

I ended up on this last year as I was exploring the South West. I found it confusing even as a Canadian.

I then later was confusion when Google Maps told me to go 80 on Hwy 10 in Texas once I came up from Big Bend NP. I thought the GPS was confused. 80 kms on the highway in the US? It was then I realized I wasn't in Oregon anymore with their 60 mph highways. Texas goes fast and even 80 mph isn't enough for most people. Even the single lane highways with construction workers was 65 mph work zones in Texas.

It was the most amount of road kill I've ever seen in all my travels. I think at one stage a herd of goats must of tried to cross the highway based on the carnage I came across. I finally understood the reason for the huge bumpers on the front of trucks in Texas now.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There's public washrooms like this in a mall in Seattle, or at least there was a few years back. Half height stalls. When one is sitting the walls only come up to your elbows. One of the most bizarre setups for a public bathroom I've seen in my travels.

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Edited to add credits that were cropped out. - WO

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I have to think miniature guns for toddlers would open up whole new segments for gun manufacturers

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Bless their little hearts as they also blamed Canada again...

[-] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

I love milk in my tea and cream in my coffee not to mention ice cream but it's still meant for helping calfs grow quickly into cows at the same time. We are talking huge gains quickly here.

Some argue it's why north American kids grow up so much faster and bigger than our Asian counterparts where milk and cheese is not as huge part of their diets. The kids hit puberty sooner too as a result. That's changing in other parts of the world as cheese and milk make their ways into the diets even in places that never understood why Americans eat so much cheese on everything.

Low fat products created enormous sources of removed fat that could be turned into all kinds of dairy products including cheeses. It's also heavily subsidized by government too. Dairy is so cheap in the US as a result compared to even Canada.

I don't guzzle milk anymore like I did as a teen due to the amount of phlegm the body can create with its consumption. I've never forgotten a health video years ago that equated milk to drinking a glass of puss due to the things done to cows to make commercial milk.

I guess in my mind cheese is adjacent but not milk, but that's just fooling myself as I eat my cheese.

It's a huge industry in the west and I don't think we will ever not see how great milk is for us. A lot is dedicated to keep those consumption numbers up and I do like my dairy products.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I loved the theme song for this when it came out.

https://youtu.be/ZruABxAV3So?si=xDHA0EaKnydxtmBX

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

And super loud cars and bikes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Certainly a argument can be made for this. For me it is the extended family and contacts from hobbies /sports. Without FB they would have completely faded out of my life. This low level method maintains a loose family connections once maintained by the senior family members that have long since passed. As for the others yes completely disappear from your life...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Same here. I wish Disa messenger app was maintained as it was my one stop shop for a few messenger apps.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I've found the same thing with the IG and FB apps which is why I don't use them. I stick to the mobile web versions but they have made it difficult to message from the android mobile web without extra steps like desktop mode. Even then there can be missing functionality.

There was also an article earlier this year where they were purposely "testing" the apps that forcibly drained some user batteries quickly without a care for the actual users affected. Since I'm often using my phone for navigation in the woods I want as much battery life as possible please.

Anyways if it wasn't for older friends and family members I would no longer be using FB.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It's become worse dealing with Google over these play cards since covid. They shut down all phone support. I made 13 attempts to get a $100 card deemed with them and I got all kinds of reasons why I couldn't redeem the card by email despite providing the receipt, card and codes and my utility bills. I even called other departments within google to try to get it fixed. Nothing.

I wasted way more of my time on principle. It happens quite often I read online for many people.

I think Google should be barred from selling these cards. There's no recourse and they keep the money. It's a racket and there's no way to recover the money unless you pay by credit card with a charge back. Those that used cash or debit are out the money as there are no refunds from the store.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Some would say Love is always the answer for everything. I think that would be a higher state for many. At the very least kindness.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I went through this early on with Jerboa. I found clearing my app cache early on fixed it again after a specific update broke my ability to stay logged in.

As a layman I've read once a app gets updated the data in cache for the last version isn't really suitable so it become unused and more data is added to the cache. Sometimes this can be a issue. There are apps that can help clear caches after major updates to Android. It helped clean my phone up overall too.

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