When I used to work fast food, my manager told me that the most expensive component of a soft drink is the ice. Syrup & (filtered) water are pennies, but ice requires electricity to maintain and it's a little more expensive than you'd think.

I've been reading articles for years about how Google say they're going to open the RCS API to 3rd-Party apps but they have yet to do so.

I think you're a great parent who interrogates the media that your child is consuming!

The aesthetic of Palworld feeds that cynicism; it's charming and colorful and awfully brutal. Parents should be aware of the game's content and the game should probably get a Teen rating (at least in the US; not sure how PEGI does their rating).

Yeah because taking your pets to an arena-style fight to "fainting" is also a great model for the kids lmao

Pokémon's dog fighting aside, Palworld has a certain cynicism that imo takes it out of the realm of a kids game. The game allows you to capture humans and then has a little blurb about how it's "inhumane" to do so. There's a niche for an "adult" monster capture game that Palworld is filling. I'm curious about how the game will continue to develop in early access. They have a lot of funding & hype, let's see if they can see it through to a full release (or wallow in development like so many other Early Access survival games).

To bring that forward a generation, there was a period around 2013-2014 when vaping was brand new and schools hadn't written any rules yet.

I remember kids vaping in class and some teachers being kinda okay with it, or at least turning a blind eye. Granted, only like 1 or 2 people in the school had vapes.

IMO, modular ports is not the main selling point for Framework. I was sold on their commitment to a platform that is repairable/upgradable.

...leaving the idea unclaimed for someone else to patent instead? Strange take.

The patent system is far from perfect, but patents themselves are necessary. EA had an idea, they had the right to patent it. They had the right to keep the patent closed, instead they opted to open it.

This summary is missing some key points from the article - in particular, the conclusion. 86% might have been too much to save...

I've found that grindr is trying to be more like tinder and less like the hookup app that it once was. Personally, I've been using Sniffies for hookups...haven't touched grindr in like 2 years 💅🏻

it's a very convenient place for the app to load the next page of content...

here's hoping that housing prices crash soon 🙏🏻

800mg of THC is a massive dose lmao

most gummies have like 5mg - 15mg of THC per dose