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When I finally had to switch from my iPhone 7 I went for a 12 mini, because giant phones are an absolute pain.
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Shanghaied posted:A friend is still rocking a iPhone 6/7/8 (idk, but it has rounded edges and a physical home button). Coca Koala posted:drat, respect. I recently switched from an iphone x to a 15 because the battery wouldn’t last longer than a day, it couldn’t run a modern OS and so wasn’t getting updates, and it would regularly just not recognize the cell network, which meant that it couldn’t actually fulfill its function as a phone - I’m amazed your friend’s phone is still working. Technically speaking a 6/7/8 could probably still be working (it does have 4G/TLE) but it's probably an iPhone SE 2nd or 3rd gen, which have the iPhone 8 shell and 11 / 13 internals.
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Wow IOS has like 60% market share in the US which compared to like 30% in the rest of the world. America really loves those drat expensive phones.
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Dec 22, 2023 17:50
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I miss the days you could cave someone's head in with a cell phone.
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Dec 22, 2023 17:50
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Mx. posted:AITA for snapping at my SIL after she kept insulting my husband? Alison metaphorically loading a revolver & handing it to OP like she won't use it 
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Dec 22, 2023 17:52
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for not congratulating my sister on her pregnancy? I don't have anything much to add, I just wanted to note that the sentence "In case it matters, I was diagnosed with rear end at age 16" OP added in an edit made me laugh
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Dec 22, 2023 17:58
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Cowslips Warren posted:You think by now someone would have made an app that would make an Android phone look like an iPhone if they're still such a hot item. I mean, don't they have cases that look kind of similar? It’s all because of iMessage on iPhone and how if you don’t use iMessage your messages show up as green instead of blue on iMessage. I also don’t think you can get included in iMessage group chats if you aren’t using iMessage (use an Android). https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006 Kids are incredibly stupid and status obsessed. Noam Chomsky fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Dec 22, 2023 18:05
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Phone chat. I had to upgrade my android phone just recently because my banking apps stopped working because the OS was not supported anymore. I had that phone since 2016ish so I got some good use put of it. I just got a laugh when the people at the Verizon store told me they are not taking it as a trade in because of how old it was. The new one is something like 30% bigger which isn't as much as a problem as I thought. Makes it easier to type and see poo poo.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:27
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Noam Chomsky posted:It’s all because of iMessage on iPhone and how if you don’t use iMessage your messages show up as green instead of blue on iMessage. How déclassé! How jejune! Back in my day, we used to mercilessly bully those who lacked the most basic knowledge of the Western literary canon: "You know, À la recherche du temps perdu? Proust? The loving madeleine book? Okay whatever we're done talking." We thought we were a group of eight-or-so lovable nerds who were obsessed with literature and artsy films and cafés and good grades, but turns out a lot of people at school hated us and thought we were nasty and aloof, just really mean and unpleasant in general. Yep, teens are assholes. Shanghaied fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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Dec 22, 2023 18:30
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Shanghaied posted:How déclassé! How jejune! drat and I thought I was lame in high school for being into anime
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Dec 22, 2023 18:42
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Johnny Truant posted:drat and I thought I was lame in high school for being into anime Japanese comics? How lame! If it's not Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées, then we were no interested! Satrapi and Jodorowsky, heard of them?
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Dec 22, 2023 18:53
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Shanghaied posted:This is not to mention my many, many work one-night stands, including Susanne-whats-her-name at payroll. One time I emailed her and asked "expenses when travelling on business, that's form 17-3 right? Thanks in advance!" She emailed back 15 min later, "Yep!" exercising my work-droit-du-seigneur over my work-vassals until i get deposed and killed in a work-serf-uprising
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Shanghaied posted:A couple of years ago, a friend/colleague of mine got an angry email from one of his student's mother, who complained that the written feedback her precious little boy received was hurtful and unhelpful (I've read it and it was nether. I guess it's very slightly harsh?). This guy was in the second or third year of university. I worked the campus IT Help Desk during my college years, and you would not believe how many parents called asking for their adult child's credentials. We weren't allowed to do that of course (and I was a student worker, I had no access to anyone's personal information or credentials!), and when we told them that it was a privacy/legal matter, they usually got even angrier. Sometimes they'd try to claim that their kid was 17, and since I couldn't verify that (again a student worker!) they'd get even pissier when I told them they'd have to place a written request (via email) with documented proof. And the same thing for their grades, though at least that was through a separate system so I could pass them off to registrar instead. Helicopter parents are terrible annoyances at best, and abusive at worst. I'm so glad my mom was always chill about my college life and my grandmother got too sick by the end of my second year to helicopter. Pope Corky the IX posted:I miss the days you could cave someone's head in with a cell phone. I mean, if you have a solid enough case, you still can. My old roommate had a case that survived a horse stepping on it on the barn floor, completely intact; I'd bet that if she used it to hit someone, she'd at least crack the skull.
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Dec 22, 2023 18:56
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for not congratulating my sister on her pregnancy? Tremendous boomer energy. You failed to invoke the polite small talk formula correctly, your sentiments are invalid!
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Dec 22, 2023 19:25
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for calling another woman "objectively attractive" in front of my work wife? Tired: Calling the coworker you're having an affair with your work wife Wired: Being suspected of having an affair with your coworker by your platonic work wife
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Dec 22, 2023 19:33
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thepopmonster posted:Technically speaking a 6/7/8 could probably still be working (it does have 4G/TLE) but it's probably an iPhone SE 2nd or 3rd gen, which have the iPhone 8 shell and 11 / 13 internals. My 8 Plus refuses to die, and it’s been both dropped from the second floor on concrete and left overnight in a snowbank. Front camera’s dead and that’s it, drat thing’s a tank.
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Dec 22, 2023 19:47
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:The old rear end guru professor in my relatively small major took a required 202 class that would normally fit us all in a lecture hall and broke it up into six sections and taught them all so he could interact with all of us. At the end of the class he scheduled individual meetings where he assessed our fitness for the profession.
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Dec 22, 2023 20:04
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AITA for using money for my family's Christmas presents on a trip for myself instead?quote:I am a single guy with a pretty decent job. I hope to have a family some day but for right now I'm just dating and saving money. remember when the grinch stole all the presents but all the whos in whoville had a merry christmas anyway, because it wasn't about the presents? yeah, neither do these people
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Dec 22, 2023 20:13
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I think the polite thing to do would be to give advance warning "hey, I'm scaling back a bit on Christmas to do a big thing for my 30th with my girlfriend" but also, gently caress those people anyhow
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Dec 22, 2023 20:15
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for using money for my family's Christmas presents on a trip for myself instead? But would the Whos have been so merry if the Grinch replaced the who-whats-its with gift cards instead of just taking them?
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Dec 22, 2023 20:18
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Baron Zephyrus posted:I worked the campus IT Help Desk during my college years, and you would not believe how many parents called asking for their adult child's credentials. We weren't allowed to do that of course (and I was a student worker, I had no access to anyone's personal information or credentials!), and when we told them that it was a privacy/legal matter, they usually got even angrier. Sometimes they'd try to claim that their kid was 17, and since I couldn't verify that (again a student worker!) they'd get even pissier when I told them they'd have to place a written request (via email) with documented proof. And the same thing for their grades, though at least that was through a separate system so I could pass them off to registrar instead. There are very good reasons why universities aren't allowed to divulge any information about adult students to their parents. Saying the wrong thing can cause serious trouble, such as in cases where someone offhandedly mentions that someone is with their girl/boyfriend to the extreme displeasure of some hyperconservative/religious parents, which can potentially put them in physical danger (doubly so if accidentally outing someone).
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Dec 22, 2023 20:20
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for using money for my family's Christmas presents on a trip for myself instead? OP should fake apologise, "it was a joke, haha, hand over all those stupid gift cards and I'll get your real presents from the car!" Then drive off.
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Dec 22, 2023 20:23
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ReelBigLizard posted:OP should fake apologise, "it was a joke, haha, hand over all those stupid gift cards and I'll get your real presents from the car!" Then drive off. lol
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Dec 22, 2023 20:29
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the holy poopacy posted:I think the polite thing to do would be to give advance warning "hey, I'm scaling back a bit on Christmas to do a big thing for my 30th with my girlfriend" but also, gently caress those people anyhow Yeah a heads up would have been nice, but yeah.
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Dec 22, 2023 20:38
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yeah that guy doesn't owe his family a heads up or anything, fuuuuuck all of them
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Pope Corky the IX posted:So do you lead with that? I'm putting this whole thing under spoilers because it involves animal death, but hope it doesn't fall under the "no stories about animal abuse" umbrella, but it is a relevant to this topic. A buddy of mine used to work at an animal shelter and performed the euphenasia there. I have no idea how he ended up with this job since he doesn't have a veterinary background but he did it, and would always tell people about it when they asked about his job. He didn't do it to invoke sympathy, so we're not really sure what what his goal was. Eventually told him maybe to not lead with that, unless his goal was to immediately repulse whomever he was talking to.
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Johnny Truant posted:yeah that guy doesn't owe his family a heads up or anything, fuuuuuck all of them I agree he doesn't owe them a heads up, that's why it would have been nice. He might have even saved 600 bucks in gift cards if he went through the trouble!
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Josef bugman posted:Way too far back pull quote, I do apologise. I can do it too. So there.
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Space Kablooey posted:I agree he doesn't owe them a heads up, that's why it would have been nice. This is an actual thing that more people need understand.
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I mean I have two step brothers and a step sister-in-law, if that is such a thing, and stepbrothers' mom and my dad got divorced and got married when we were all adults or at least late teens, So I never really got to know them at all and didn't meet until the first grandbaby was born. So I got to be the cool aunt and just send a gift on his birthday and maybe meet the family for Christmas gift exchange and that was pretty much it. But ever since he had a brother, I've been doing small gifts for everybody. Even if they don't reciprocate. The kids of course get larger presents, but the adults usually get a variation of a blanket, or they each get new winter gloves or something to that extent. So somewhat personalized. But again I don't really know these people. I'm not sure if I should ever give them a heads up if I'm going to stop that either since I don't know if they expect it every year by this point. AITA for refusing to change LGBTQ elements of my book for my Uncle's book group? quote:I published my first book a few weeks ago. It's self-published so I have been reaching out to family and friends for ways to sell it and local ways to get it out there.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for refusing to change LGBTQ elements of my book for my Uncle's book group? you're missing out on the lucrative "screeching bigot" demographic! you're leaving money on the table!!
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Lesbian Starship Pilot is a pretty good username.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I mean I have two step brothers and a step sister-in-law, if that is such a thing, and stepbrothers' mom and my dad got divorced and got married when we were all adults or at least late teens, So I never really got to know them at all and didn't meet until the first grandbaby was born. So I got to be the cool aunt and just send a gift on his birthday and maybe meet the family for Christmas gift exchange and that was pretty much it. But ever since he had a brother, I've been doing small gifts for everybody. Even if they don't reciprocate. The kids of course get larger presents, but the adults usually get a variation of a blanket, or they each get new winter gloves or something to that extent. So somewhat personalized. But again I don't really know these people. I'm not sure if I should ever give them a heads up if I'm going to stop that either since I don't know if they expect it every year by this point. Managing expectations is one of the biggest reasons to give people a heads-up.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Lesbian Starship Pilot #goals
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OP should add a character named "uncle blib" or something, and a scene where, for some reason, the rest of the cast has to run a train on him so they can escape the sewers beneath the town where the end guy lives
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Ugh. There's a really traumatic almost drowning story that I'm totally avoiding because for some reason, even though it's winter time in Phoenix, at least once a week, we still get a report of a kid falling into a pool. AITA for not wanting to order my own fries? quote:Whenever my friend Kevin and I get fast food, I always ask for a couple of his fries. I do this because I know with 100% certainty that he will not finish his fries. I also absolutely do not want more than two french fries. Yes, I'm a freakin' weirdo and probably the only dude who does this..., but I swear that I truly only want a taste.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for not wanting to order my own fries? why can't OP take his two fries after his friend is done?
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for not wanting to order my own fries? While this is an rear end in a top hat move, he is even a bigger rear end in a top hat if the way he asks is "Can I borrow some fries?"
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Foo Diddley posted:why can't OP take his two fries after his friend is done? who the gently caress wants cold fries??
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Foo Diddley posted:AITA for not congratulating my sister on her pregnancy? I was expecting this to be a solid wall of NTA but the top rated comments are like, ESH and YTA.  Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for refusing to change LGBTQ elements of my book for my Uncle's book group? I want to believe this is just guerilla marketing for the book given that she's not using a throwaway, but someone being that entitled regarding anything queer is way too real. Kitfox88 fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Dec 22, 2023 |
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