This. I was sure I had mine completely clean 3 times and was pretty resigned to wireless charging only before a hardened sliver of detritus dropped out. Back to working like new.

You know why

Well, I kinda had the impression peristalsis loads the cannon, so to speak, while pneumatics fire it.

Hell, they’ll look them straight in the eye with greasy lips smiling wide and sincerely say, “Thank you.”

I think the idea is one of them is convincing someone to not do something they still have the power to do, while the other would be taking that power away completely. There may be a truly foolproof way to disarm a weapon, but there will never be a foolproof way to convince someone of anything due to the unpredictability of people.

I guess a better analogy would be a guy with his beaten and bloody wife who is pleading for help from the officer, who just shrugs and says “Sorry, ma’am” before leaving. But the general idea remains the same.

That’s my reading as well. I have no idea what is actually in Article IX but it sounds like UAE snuck in “except us” when it came to defining the ICJ’s jurisdiction. It’s giving SovCit vibes, only instead of a sovereign citizen unbeholden to their government and declaring their house a nation state, it’s a country unbeholden to the world and declaring themselves outside of its purview. And the ICJ is just shrugging their shoulders saying the same thing.

Imagine someone shooting up heroin while driving, getting pulled over on a highway on-ramp, then telling the cop who is looking at the needle in their arm that technically this is a highway, so highway patrol are the only ones who could pull them over. In what world does the cop shrug and say “Aw shucks, you’re right” before getting back in their squad car and driving off? Because it seems like the international equivalent of that just happened but with genocide instead of addiction.

We’re gonna need a bigger M&M’s tube…

You made an enemy out of a sitter today. You’ve turned Willem de Sitter into Willem Dafoe.

Right? Like, we get it. Farms are important. No need to shove it down our throats.

Nothing in particular, just Disney being Disney. Had the subscription for family, was finally able to cut the cord recently

Don’t worry, I assume nothing. Call me naive, but I’d rather be likely shouting into the void than staying quiet and possibly missing an opportunity to be heard

I know it’s unlikely to have done anything much, but if no one speaks they definitely won’t be heard. At least there’s a small chance for someone to understand the company is shitty. A small grain of doubt can grow into dissent with time. Worth the gamble of a little time to me

Because I need to at least try to tell them their shitty practices are hitting them in the only place that matters to them: their wallet. I don’t think my little survey will do much in the grand scheme of things, but many small thing make big thing so I do what I can. I made it very clear they’re pushing people back to the high seas