Inb4 bigots call Birdo depiction “woke.”

How appropriate that you’re bitching about people coming into your walled garden to criticize Apple.

I remember learning that 3.5" disks were still called “floppy” disks, despite being rigid plastic. My teacher took apart a disk and showed us how the inside was a film, but all that did was encourage us to take apart the disks and make desk toys out of the springs.

Man, I remember when Zip Disks were a big deal and a GB was a lot of storage.

I actually like that word. Feels like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

The Adventures of Flox Spanner 2209, by Donovan Cove

Chapter 1: The Synthespian Uprising

Or like it’s how Poe from Altered Carbon would describe himself.

That wouldn’t surprise me, but also the standard has been around for so long, changing the size of standard lumber is probably harder than changing the manufacturing process (which is likely automated and computer controlled anyway).

The consumer doesn’t need to know it. The lumber mill does, and the people responsible for warehousing and logistics, they use nominal sizes because saying “two by four” is easier than “one point five by three point 5.”

It’s not exactly a lie, just a standard. Nominal board sizes were based on the unfinished lumber size. Another 1/4 inch is taken off each side to get a smooth surface that makes it easier to work with.

Here’s an old image (reddit warning)

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that shows the rough cuts of boards from a log. When they look at a log, they determine how many of each size they can get from it, and at that point, a 2x4 is 2 inches by 4 inches.

Gotta catch 'em all!

Everything’s gonna be ok.

Trust me, I know what I’m doing.

You’ll understand when you’re older.

Hang on, almost figured it…

Caspar Babypants.

What did you think the babies were running from, comrade?

What’s the most verbose attempt to eschew obfuscation on record?

Some day you may not mind so much.

That’s exactly why you look for a tablets specifically for kids. The features you want are parental control, time locking, and app screening.

The entire future of learning is built around screens. Kids take standardized tests on touchscreens. They will do their taxes in an app, research topics with the internet, communicate with their peers in messaging apps, apply for jobs in apps, and build new tools through programming.

They must learn to use screens effectively without getting addicted to them.

Kids who learn those skills early, who practice using a tablet and then putting it down, those kids will be better equipped to go put into the world.

I agree with you that too many parents use screens as babysitters. And while tablets are more addictive and predatory, that’s been a problem since screens existed. There’s a cool documentary on it calles The Cable Guy.

That’s why Congress doesn’t want to send more aid.

Gameplay balance.

Or, like you can unpause, but also everyone else can also pause. You’re just going about your day, eating some soup, and someone in India is in the middle of an exam and wants to take an extra moment to think.

So you and everyone else is frozen in time while they search their recollection for some bit of trivia they are supposed to know. Your spoon, full of yummy soup, is inches from your mouth, but you can’t even smell it because the air is paused, too. Time has stopped, but not your consciousness.

Unpause, your spoon finishes its trip to your mouth. Time pauses again before you get a chance to swallow, because someone in Canada is on a date and is nervous about asking too many questions.

This is life, now. Pause, unpause, pause, unpause, nobody knowing why or when someone else will hit pause, or how long it will last.

You’re right, same with bone and skin.

That’s fucked up. It must have been horrible to wake up to all of that.

As a ward of the state, he would have been assigned a case worker who would have been in charge of his care and end of life decisions. The TCs would have still tried to find next of kin or any family that could provide consent (and a medical and social history). Besides the legal implications, there’s also a PR consideration. Transplant organizations are keenly aware of the public perception, and they will go to any lengths to avoid the narrative that the state killed someone to steal their organs. If there was a third cousin in Germany, they would have gotten a phone call before decisions were made.