Ben Franklin owned seven slaves early in his life, but later got rid of them, became an outspoken critic of slavery, and worked toward its abolition.

Also, slavery or not, the point still stands. They wouldn’t recognize America today and would be horrified.

That’s half of it. The other half is realizing that some of those “shining moments” were actually worthless

Never accept criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.

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Ill tell you what he’s NOT going to: anything to improve anyone’s life but his own.

Agreed. To expand on that, I have zero sympathy for anyone who complains about the worldwide rise of fascism while still participating in corporate-owned social media or shopping at Amazon/Temu as anything other than a last resort for essential items.

Like, who do they think is funding all these fascists and where exactly do they think all the money comes from?

Corpos gonna corpo. Anyone who’s seen how meta operates could have and should have expected this. Plus, these are a luxury. Nobody “needs” these to live.

Meta is shitty for doing this but I’m still having a really hard time feeling bad for any of the buyers.

It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob

Since you didn’t learn from the top comment in your last thread, allow me to repeat it here:

It’s your fault, accept the shame and teach her.

A fridge full of condiments and no food. Why don’t you throw out some of those (probably expired) jars of goop so there’s room for leftovers?

You’re right, I’m getting side tracked; let’s keep the conversation about your daughter. Maybe you should have a talk with who raised her?

Edit: just saw your linked post about the dishwasher. Wow dude. Two years and you’re bitching to the internet instead of raising your children. I hope you’re looking forward to sitting in that nursing home wondering why the kids never call.

So, even more extra steps for even less functionality, got it.

Whatever you do, don’t point out that all Steam games have DRM and licenses too and Valve can pull a Sony any time it wants.

Hey, just what you see pal

Be careful suggesting there could be nuance. Lots of people in this thread just want to be angy

Be careful suggesting there’s missing context. You might summon the downvote brigade lol.

Can’t say I’d blame anyone for destroying them then. No doubt the app collects your data. There’s no reason I should have to pay for the locker once with my taxes, then again with my data. Net positive for the world, imo.

Let me try writing a rule for it.

“Given two lists, the word “respectively” indicates the n-th item in each list corresponds to the n-th item in the other list.”

The lion doesn’t have a mortgage

Perhaps the vandals are sending a message they’d prefer their tax dollars be spent more productively?

I can’t help but feel there’s a ton of missing context here.

IMO, the weirdest thing about English is something every speaker does but probably never thinks about.

Whenever multiple adjectives describe a single noun, there’s a particular order in which they must go. If you have big tractor that’s also green, you would call it a “big green tractor” but you would never call it a “green big tractor”. Not only does it sound wrong, it’s grammatically incorrect.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/one-weird-trick-for-adjective-order