I was honestly ready to whine about the timing and this not making sense… but no, turns out my timeline, despite being based on books that were supposed to be well-researched, was way off. And indeed the first chatter about mobile phones was around 1908. Til.

Have some Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

The floor definitely gives you a new perspective.

To be clear, those are usually for any handicap, as they are outfitted with wheelchair access and usually have extra adults riding along to help.

They are (or at least were in my area at that time) much more comfortable, similar to public transit busses. I got to ride along with a friend with a muscular problem on one a few times in the late 90s early noughties and it was lux.

That article has a lot of “alleged” for something there’s a video of…

I got weird rotary phone, GameCube, then that funeral video. I sort of thought this was some millennial meme I’m too out of the loop to understand. Lemmy is full of those.

If they were all the same size, perhaps amputee?

Or maybe a really specific fetish.

Maybe both.

Quite possibly a question best left unanswered, at least until you no longer live there

No, I don’t. I mean a burrito.

Lego already makes shit all over the world. Look at the back of one of the big kits and there’s a wildly long list of countries of manufacture.

They probably even make some parts here in the US.

The problem is they have tons of parts, and only one or two factories making any given part (other than really common ones maybe). They would have to duplicate each individual mold to have wholly state-side supply. That’s where it becomes impractical.

They would probably have to try to figure out what they were paying for each part from a different country of manufacture, and that would also be a nightmare.

Oh fuck that would suck -hard-.

There’s a show called flash forward where that sort of happens. Not like entirely the same for reasons, but they do black out and things do happen in that time.

Good show though imho

I really want the context. Tho the really old jokes I’ve read have all pretty well sucked according to my present tastes, so…

Question: are you thinking the kind of burrito served on a plate with sauce over the top and usually rice and beans on the side, or the kind that comes wrapped in foil or plastic that might go through a microwave but which everyone would think you are low-key insane for eating with utensils?

That sounds legit. Thanks for the info.

Trying to sort out of this is a xena meme or a marvel meme…

I’m sort of guessing marvel? But it looks cheesy like xena… maybe it’s neither?

Bullshit.

Bezos can’t cut his own hair. He can’t see that far up his own ass even with all the mirrors in the world.

He probably spends more to be bald than it would cost to get all new hair.

which at the time was a bit of a “fuck you” to folk whose phones didn’t like them one bit and presented them as individual messages in their inbox.

Ha I had problems with the multi-message thing even a few years ago, sending messages from android to iOS. I tend to send very verbose messages, and the delay between them, as well as having it come through as text, made them a jumbled mess.

For a while I was putting numbers before every sentence if I thought the message was too long to be one message.

So glad that doesn’t happen anymore, tho we solved it by swapping to signal, I’m not sure the problem itself ever resolved.

There’s a place near me that I don’t go to very often, and almost never if I’m alone. They have great food and it’s pretty cheap, but they don’t have WiFi.

That normally wouldn’t be a problem, because I rarely use any of my cell data, but it’s a super old building full of interference and I can only get cell signal if I happen to get one of the 3 seats within 10 foot of the front windows.

If I do go by myself, I get weird looks for bringing comic books or video games and just existing by myself, but there’s nothing else to do while waiting for food so…

So you are telling me I should have stayed up until 6:05AM, rather than going to bed when I physically couldn’t handle doomscrolling anymore at 6:04?

Why wasn’t there anything good in the prior 12-24 hrs? What kind of casino is this, to not give me even a teeny tiny dopamine hit to keep me coming back?

That gave me a good chortle. Thanks for making my dumb thought funnier 😊

Honestly was just the first example I could come up with, but the fact remains that a lot of things do consider ants to be harmless because they aren’t, like, hunting those things. Especially other small arthropods.

I’m sure there are some hunting ant species (like the 200 army ant species), but most of them aren’t.