For me, it wasn’t that, but the ribbon cable inside. A 20 cent part broke, but Samsung won’t allow techs to fix that. Their “fix” is to replace the hinge, inner, and outer screens, a $600 part. Maddening, considering the cable can be fixed.

I always vote, local, state, and federal. I would never vote for candidates who specifically are out to destroy things, or do austerity measures. I also don’t vote by party, but by values.

Because few people vote in my area, my votes have enormous impacts on society at large, which feels uniquely powerful.

I love the woods a lot, so I voted for a candidate that wanted to preserve them. My singular vote alone counted as 2% of the entire state, and the pro-Muir candidate won. And that was me alone, I also talked to friends and family about voting, which they did.

It’s cool, but $2,000 is way too expensive, especially if it has issues and can’t last 5-6 years at least. My Samsung Z fold broke a few years in, and the cost to repair exceeded buying a replacement phone.

RIP birdwatchers and photographers, haha.

Woohoo!! So excited to see new extensions :)

It really depends on where these get implemented. If you want to live in a city, you don’t really need a car as much. Washington apparently built the world’s first floating train and appears to be leading the US in transportation infrastructure with trains and bikes. If anyone can pull it off in the US, it’s probably them.

This will only change with proper police enforcement. But the much bigger problem are car accidents, which disproportionately affect pedestrians, causing just shy of 6,000 accidents in my city.

Of the 25 killed, 16 were pedestrians in high speed areas like stroads and highway onramps. (300 total crashes into pedestrians)

Bikes had 260 crashes, zero of which were fatal, but many of which involved cars.

Vision Zero is working, and bike and scooter accidents will increase as usage increases. But slowing cars and making roads narrow to limit speeding will keep more people, including drivers, safer.

Never buy anything that flies, fucks or floats. No planes, no boats, no horses. If you really want to try one of these, try renting or borrowing the thing for a whole summer. Maybe even two summers.