I’ve had nothing but good experiences with Amazon itself. When I’ve had bad service, it’s inevitably a flipper selling something they don’t have expecting they can then buy it at a local sale. But when that sale has ended or they can’t find one to generate enough profit, they claim “shipping delayed”. Eventually Amazon cancels and I’ve always gotten my money back, but I feel scammed and no one seems to read bad reviews anymore

I’m not familiar enough with the Bronx to understand the impact but I’ll always upvote more transit and the video makes it look very useful

Unfortunately this runs in my family and it’s past my turn. But there are enough family members affected to make it really stand out how important it is to walk immediately and follow through with PT. Those that do are more mobile than they had been for years. Those who don’t, never get their mobility back

For some people there’s cortisone injections. They don’t fix anything but reduce pain and inflammation. I’m actually a use case where that was enough for that occurrence. I had a sharp pain in my knee and the cortisone got rid of the pain and inflammation and that specific issue didn’t come back.

Of course now my knees are totally wrecked and the only choice they gave me is replacing them

PSA: I wish they told me more about strength and balance when I was evaluated. I wasn’t able to go through with it at the time and had no reason to believe it was urgent since I could live with the pain . However now after years of of being unable to use my knees, I clearly have weakened muscles in my lower leg, clearly do not balance as well, and have a hard time getting up from the floor. Even worse I keep reading that those are exactly what they look for in aging and independence. So now I still need the joint replacements but somehow have to rebuild my lower leg strength

It’s DEI because “everyone I know drives a car”

I’m sorry for the loss, the road did indeed fail, and I am happy there’s at least one Republican who cares about road safety, but …….

There’s a whole lot of twisted logic trying to make it seem like “both sides the same”. I mean, I wouldn’t argue it since she does see the light after it affected her personally, but wtf

Wait, wtf? I didn’t know it was resurrected as a green slimy zombie. How can the equal time rule apply to comedy but not news? That’s the complete opposite of how it always worked

Arguably carnivores have already cut meat intake, at least red meat, to greater impact than vegetarians.

While I’m going by anecdote rather than data

• vegetarians/vegans are a small minority so limited impact
• many people I know have cut back on at least red meat for health or environmental reasons.

Basically one fewer burger a week by 100 people has more impact than one person not eating meat at all

The arguments are usually that fish aren’t animals or more clearly insects aren’t animals, similar to how plants aren’t animals even if they react to damage. Very easy to argue.

I’ve seen arguments that whatever sentience fish may have, it’s too low level to be aware of pain. I don’t buy that but clearly fish have a simpler central nervous system than mammals. Also easy to argue.

An incremental step would be making it more expensive through taxes or regulation. A possible improvement rather than sitting on an impossible ideal

Thanks for the additional context

Everything I want in one place, with a decent searchable ui and next day delivery? Sometimes I try to get away from that, but that’s a whole lot of convenience you’d have to avoid

Over the weekend I went to the home center for a part, even asked for help finding it, and the guy looked it up and said they no longer carry it. I used the Amazon app in the parking lot for literal seconds , and the part arrived the next day.

Seems like some context is important here … they have an elementary school with unused floors and are trying to consolidate another school into that.

That doesn’t sound as bad, but admittedly I only translated the first few paragraphs, and don’t know the rest of the story

Are you complaining about the hardware or the face?

• Whats the point of changing the hardware? It’s a simple, shape, already comes in multiple sizes and has the number of buttons that fit.
• Why complain about the face? Use a different one and now your Apple Watch has more design variety than a couple of dumb watches

And Apple has always made a point of saying things like this are on-device, not cloud

I believe Apple Watch already ships with always on Siri, but I don’t know anyone who left that turned on.

That’s crazy. Even pre-smartphone, there was always the argument that sms costs less than the effort to meter and bill for them …. And maybe that’s the entire difference between the us using sms/rcs, and Europe using WhatsApp

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And the reverse of that is true in the us. I don’t know anyone who uses that app, so I won’t. Actually it’s true in a general sense as well: there’s never been sufficient people on any specific app to make me want to use it

RCS has been on iPhones a couple years. The recent update was encrypted RCS.

I don’t know whether the implementation is still Google, but in August I noticed RCS chats now have a “lock” icon