I don’t remember what did it for me, I switched a while ago. But, I do clearly remember one time when I had the kind of moulded earphones that go really deep in your ear, and I caught the cable on something, and they got yanked out of my ears. That was pretty painful.

Why are you so deep in your own bubble that you don’t believe that someone could simply prefer wireless? If that’s the case, you should get out more, meet more people, expand your horizons.

Ooh, BUUURN! BUUUUUUUUUURN!!!

I’ve never lost one in at least a decade of using them. But, I don’t use the kind that just balance on the edge of your ear.

Wireless means you plug it in occasionally, maybe once a week.

If you don’t value the convenience of wireless headphones, that’s great for you. For a lot of people, the cable is a real pain in the ass. It gets tangled up when it’s off. It gets caught up on things when it’s on, etc.

If you’re listening to podcasts or music, latency doesn’t really matter.

Yeah, it’s a risk. But, there’s also a risk of getting your wired earbuds cord caught on something. I’ve had that happen and it yanked the phone off the table and sent it crashing to the floor. I’ve also had the buds get yanked out of my ears multiple times.

If I lived somewhere where winters were mild, I might still use wired headphones. When you only have to worry about a t-shirt or something managing the cord isn’t too bad. But, when you have to manage a hat, scarf, coat, etc. there are just too many things to get in the way of the cord.

You know what’s easier than a cable? No cable.

I’ll give you sound quality, but the whole reason that wireless earbuds took off is the hassle of wires.

Imagine how Dunning Krugerey you have to be to think that 10 years off an on in the military, plus a lot of time as a talking head on TV is the appropriate background to be Secretary of Defence.

I’m sure that the average Secretary of Defence probably has to face imposter syndrome all the time. But this guy, nope, he’s so confident that he belongs that there isn’t even a nagging voice saying “hey, maybe you shouldn’t be sending this confidential information to your relatives and friends”.

“A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency

It doesn’t meet the requirements to be a currency. It’s a commodity.

Gold isn’t a currency, it’s a commodity.

It’s not necessarily your opponent who has to have a conscience. Sometimes it can be people they depend on.

Like, with Gandhi, the British Empire didn’t really have a conscience. But, there were reporters present, and they reported on what happened. The story got out to regular people in Britain, to regular people in India, and to people worldwide. The British empire knew that if they let Gandhi die, India would erupt, other countries would boycott them, etc.

Until Andor, Star Wars had paper-thin worldbuilding that let right-wingers see themselves as the Rebels.

Luke is a rural white boy who learns the true religion, which is being suppressed by the government. He uses his religious beliefs and skills honed as a farmboy to fight back. Han Solo is a businessman who just wants to make money moving goods from A to B, but the government keeps interfering, trying to destroy his business (and his personal property).

What are the rebels fighting for? Basically it seems to be about personal liberty and the right to practice their religion. If there’s any ideology beyond that, the movies don’t really get into it.

In most of the series, the empire is literally faceless. The storm troopers have full body armour that covers everything up. The Tie Fighter pilots have full helmets that cover their faces. The only people with faces you see on the empire’s side are the generals and the emperor. That makes it really easy to have the empire represent anything you want.

Part of what makes Andor such a great series is that it puts faces to a lot of the mid-level people in the empire. You see their backstabbing, their jockeying for position, striving for promotion. It really shows what kinds of people work for the empire, and what the values of the normal people are, and why they might want to join the rebels instead.

That was part of the irony of the show. He did the crime, he got away with it, then he was falsely accused of another crime and thrown in prison. The people who were hunting him were pretty frustrated because they couldn’t find him, and they couldn’t find him because he was in prison under an alias.

He was wrongly accused of the crime that sent him to prison. He did commit the other crimes, killing the 2 guards and robbing Star Fort Knox, but they never caught him for those crimes.

That graph is out of date. A more up-to-date graph shows the uncertainty index is now literally off the charts:

Even that one is more than a week old, so who knows where it is now.

Just think about it. In 2020 people were in lockdown. In many places people couldn’t go out except to go grocery shopping. Every other kind of shop was shut down. Many factories in China were also shut down so things weren’t being shipped. Ships were filling up the ports but couldn’t be unloaded because the places to unload containers weren’t available. Basically, utter chaos.

On his own, Trump has wrecked people’s confidence in the stability of the market to such an extent that it’s now twice as uncertain as during peak COVID. It’s amazing.

Because it would be nice to have a card number that looked plausible that could be used in movies. Imagine if every phone number in a movie had to be (555) 555-5555. It would break your suspension of disbelief.

Too bad the Visa and Mastercard ones are so obviously fake.

You’re right that Bluesky isn’t federated, but it most definitely is centralized.

It doesn’t seem to be the case, but it would be interesting if there were CC numbers that were meant to be used in movies, similar to how 555-XXXX phone numbers are never real.