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Apple maintains their phones with OS and security updates for much longer than any Android manufacturers I’m aware of.

The plastic on the cord for the charger for my 2010 MacBook completely peeled off on both sides for 2-3 feet when it was about a year and a half old. Just bare twisted metal coating… it seemed dangerous or something. I took it to an Apple Store hoping for any sort of discount on a new one, and some snotty guy with a septum piercing angrily insisted that I must have habitually rolled over it with a chair. He said my only option was to buy a new one for full price (around $150). I didn’t even own a chair with wheels. All I had ever done was coil it up 3-4 times a day going between my house and coffee shops.

I ended up calling and complaining and a manager said I could get a 50% discount. Great! So I went there 2 weeks later and some guy angrily insisted HE was the manager on duty and HE didn’t approve that. So they looked at my charger and angrily insisted that I’d rolled over it with a chair and my only option was to buy a new one for full price.

Anyway, Apple was trying a lot of different coverings back then to avoid BPA or something. They ended up paying a class action settlement for some of their charging cables.

Well, yeah. If I started the Dickweed Party and decided I'd be the candidate, I wouldn't have to let someone else take the nomination if I didn't want to.

Yeah, then if you get it, you also have to operate a registry, however much that costs, in terms of retail and maintaining a zone file, and pay $6000 a quarter plus .25 per domain for revenue over $50,000.

I've noticed a lot of people don't actually measure liquid detergent, too... just kind of pour some in. I bet that tends to use way more than is called for. We started using the detergent sheets (the ones that just dissolve, however those work) which helps with easy portioning.

Ha, yep - I've gone from 9 to 4-5 and find them in my sleeves when I'm folding clothes. I think the missing ones are trapped in my gf's clothes, which she just sort of stacks up rather than folding...

Natural is typically used to mean something that occurs in nature or results from mild refinement vs. purely synthetic and novel molecules. I don't think most anyone would call cotton a 'chemical' and being that specific is really a form of pedantry more than a useful label.

Possibly also death wax like flame retardants or pesticides from the transportation process.

We looked into this recently... you could start any TLD you want for only $185,000!

Yeah, given the range of questions and how the article presents the results only referring to 1-2 questions, it makes me feel the article is biased.

I generally agree, and good insight! I think though that a distinction for me is that taco salad would have a bunch of lettuce.

I think they're referring to the Prisoner, not Austin Powers.