If the other kid had been armed this terrible thing couldn’t have happened! Arm the kids! /s

So that’s where Andrew Tate went to after his release.

General Streck: 'Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.

[hangs up]

He’s dead.’

I have a simple trick how to distinguish both:

Figurative means Figurative. Literally means literally.

You’re welcome.

Got rid of (most) social media. Even only reading about its toxicity makes me uncomfortable.

Why? I changed my bank like decades ago and have a free account ever since. IIRC a ‘real’ credit card would cost a fee, and unlimited cash withdrawal too, but I think that’s it. I don’t use either.

Can I interest you in a very nice Trebuchet?

In theory, mint is great. But poor practice has me avoid it unless I prepare something with it myself.

It’s the passive-aggressiveness of the tweet. Being bitter and sarcastic won’t make anyone’s day better either.

as long as it’s not your salary that gets ad-blocked.

So you neither pay with money nor by watching ads for a very expensive to maintain service, but you won’t leave it be either.

I know I’m making myself Unpopular here, but what is it that you’re bringing to the table? Currently you cost YouTube money because streaming video is really expensive. You block out all the ads so every creator is cut off monetization too. This is not a publicly funded library (yet).

Sorry I misunderstood. And literally followed up with a clarification so what’s the problem

This Tweet (and all of its derivatives) is exactly the same level of not helpful.

You mean both hands have to grip one controller opposed to having a Joycon in each hand? That split-design can be an advantage, but IMHO doesn’t cancel out the shortcomings of the Joycons. I find them still too small and not grippy at all.

Why is it “hardly an answer”?

Getting everything you want at any time is part of the reason why the planet’s dying. Consumerism is not sustainable. Just one example: one wants a coffee and isn’t at home. Solution today: get a single-use plasticcy paper cup of coffee with an optional packaged portion of sweetener and / or cream, a plastic stirring thingy, and a plastic lid. All that goes to waste because people were led to believe that a “paper” cup is good for the environment. It isn’t.

Sorry, it’s aggravating to see people complain about bottle lids and not seeing what the bigger problem behind is.

We created this mess and now the least bad thing in this literal pile of garbage gets labelled ‘mildly infuriating’.

You’re coming up with a sarcastic exaggeration (barrels and glasses), followed by “serious question”. So which is it now?

Anyway. How about refillable cups, travel mugs, returnable bottles? Stop buying bottled water if your tap water is fine. Get a soda maker if you like sparkling water or Spritzer. Clean up after yourselves, return or throw away bottles with the lid on.

And first and foremost: stop buying packaged and bottled sh*t at every possible occasion. Things like single-use / to-go cups or bottles shouldn’t even exist.

We all created the landfills and ocean garbage patches and now we complain about our own stupidity, unable to drink from a bottle with a lid attached to it like we’re toddlers.

If you seriously ask me for an alternative: stop creating waste. Stop complaining about your waste. And stop complaining about regulations that try to limit waste that shouldn’t even be there. Big part of the problem stems from our own laziness and consumerism. Everyone is part of the problem, nobody wants to be a part of the solution. What did you even expect?

It’s a conventional GameSir controller that has a Switch mode among others. The split design of the Joycons rarely plays out, most of the time it makes the controllers unnecessarily complex and thus expensive IMHO.

My reasonably sized, more ergonomic, multi-system wireless controller with hall effect sticks does that for a little more than half the price.

Hot take: Nintendo Switch Joycons. They’re a nice and clever concept but in reality they’re bad.

Too small even for casual games. The Wiimote was much better at it.

Very expensive at 80 € per set. Yes, you get two of them but in most games outside of Mario Kart you also need both. And even then they’re fine at best.

4 out of 4 of my controllers got stick drift. Nintendo had to be sued into repairing them.