Especially those who own horses (because they have money)

USA would probably be better if it were like 4-10 different countries....well, some of it at least.

New England Cascadia California Breadbasket States of America Gilead

This was before my political consciousness, but I feel like 1992 has an argument, but maybe that was just because of Perot...

I really doubt this is the primary reason. I think it was multifaceted, but really the people in the business of designing phones were already using Bluetooth exclusively and felt that it was good enough. Some designs probably rushed it as a means to sell more premium headsets (Apple, Samsung), other saw it as removing an unnecessary redundant feature that was more prone to breakage and a waterproofing difficulty (Google). I think it really just came down to the personal preferences of the (affluent) people who were doing the designing, not necessarily a purposeful cash grab. It really was not great since wired headphones were way cheaper than their Bluetooth counterparts. Luckily Bluetooth has gotten much better and less expensive. I think there should be options for both.

I look back and my parents let me read this in high school without comment...like wtf mom and dad.

"This book is a testament to how even the most stupid among us can write a fully fledged book with words, chapters, and everything." ~@tea

Is that where Ted's ego came from in HIMYM? I thought it was just Ted, but maybe all architects are horrible?

Yeah, people just want a "generic" place because they generally don't want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I'm basically a vanilla NPC in my life and "sh.itjust.works" is simply too spicy!

Probably because lemmy.world is down again.

Wait for lemmy.world to be back up and try again. If you can't login on the web, the tool won't be able to login either.