I travel a lot and I swear I've never seen the same shower design twice. There's so many different freakin' ways to deliver a stream of water to your head and they nearly all require some level of finessing. I'm assuming it all stems from an 1800s court case about patents but fuck that judge and everyone involved that day

Absolutely, this return to office stuff has been an absolute gift for CEOs wanting to downsize, it's the perfect fluffy PR way to turn the thumbscrews. Factor in the popular idea that you're a slacker if you don't work hard all the time and you basically have public support too.

I'm sure plenty of people will just suck it up and view the past few years as a very extended break from office nonsense and commuting hassle, but enough will jump ship to fill quotas

Blood and Oil is a fascinating book about the rise of MBS. They literally had a guy on the inside in Twitter in California who would feed them back information like this. Definitely not a boring book, it reads like a thriller more often than not

I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What's everyone's beef with it?

I don't get the YouTube hate in general. It's much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I'm happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts

If an app asks me to rate it, or checks what my rating is going to be before sending me to either a feedback form or Google Play, depending on my response, then it instantly gets a 1 star review

• It is a solar-powered watch that uses Citizen's Eco-Drive technology. This means it converts any light, natural or artificial, into energy to recharge the battery. So it never needs a traditional battery replacement.

• The Satellite Wave model has the added ability to sync its time globally using signals from GPS satellites. There is a small antenna under the dial that receives satellite signals.

• When in range of GPS signals, the watch syncs to the atomic clock time signal from satellites orbiting the Earth. This keeps the time accurate anywhere in the world and automatically adjusts for daylight savings time.

• Syncing can happen automatically when the watch is exposed to bright light. There is also a button on the case you can push to manually trigger a time sync if needed.

• Between syncs, the Eco-Drive technology keeps the watch powered and keeping accurate quartz time. The power reserve when fully charged is about 6 months

Very cool!

Bit of a mixed bag

I think all these other countries only care about the fact that India has a burgeoning middle class and is going to become the next consumption led market. Everyone has too much of their own stuff to deal with at the moment, but they love the idea of huge cohort of new customers over the coming decades, regardless of who's in charge

Not to take away from your post, which is nuanced and interesting. But I think the buck stops at the economics for most

I remember seeing my first drone at a music festival in 2010ish. Totally blew me away, pun unintended

It's been patched for ages. I've certainly been using it daily since around August or September of 2023 including all day today.

Revanced is your friend

They voted for Selena Meyer too

The Signal.org post about Cellebrite is absolutely brilliant

Judas goat! Judas goat! Judas goat!

Potato potato

European here. A friend of mine bought a house in Cairns a while back. Is it an area that's known to have problems with wildfires? I realised this is a vague question but she was asking me about whether or not she should sell the house based on the global financial situation, but she never mentioned wildfires. I assume she's factoring it in based on the insane wildfires you guys had a couple of years back but you can never be sure

I was gonna say Jet Set Radio Future too. I absolutely love the cel shading art style. Will check out Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, thanks

Something something metric system

Some sad movies from the last decade, courtesy of Claude:

• Manchester by the Sea (2016) - A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

• Moonlight (2016) - A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood.

• Lion (2016) - A young Indian boy gets lost on a train and is subsequently adopted by an Australian couple. Years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

• A Monster Calls (2016) - A young boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mom's terminal illness.

• The Fault in Our Stars (2014) - Two teens with cancer fall in love after meeting at a support group.

• Short Term 12 (2013) - A supervisor at a facility for at-risk teens connects with a girl who reminds her of her troubled past.

• Fruitvale Station (2013) - The true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Black man killed in 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers.

• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) - A pregnant African American woman tries to clear her fiancé's name after he is falsely accused of a crime.

• Philomena (2013) - An Irish woman searches for the son who was taken from her decades earlier when she was forced to live in a convent.

• Still Alice (2014) - A linguistics professor is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

• Boyhood (2014) - Filmed over 12 years, this drama follows a boy from age 6 to 18 as he grows up in Texas.

• Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) - In a Louisiana bayou community cut off from the rest of the world, a six-year-old girl goes on an adventure to save her ailing father.

• Precious (2009) - In 1987 Harlem, an abused, illiterate teen pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school.

• 12 Years a Slave (2013) - In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

• The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) - The story follows two fathers - a bank robber and a cop - whose destinies collide and whose sins haunt their sons.

• Room (2015) - A young boy and his mother escape captivity and adjust to life outside Room.

• Blue Valentine (2010) - The relationship of a contemporary married couple deteriorates into heart-wrenching crisis.

• Rabbit Hole (2010) - Becca and Howie Corbett are a happily married couple whose perfect world is forever changed when their young son dies in a tragic accident.

• The Impossible (2012) - The story of a tourist family caught in the destruction of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

• Amour (2012) - Georges and Anne are an elderly couple dealing with Anne's debilitating health issues.

• The Tree of Life (2011) - The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.

• Biutiful (2010) - A man involved in illegal dealings sees ghosts of the people he's killed. He's also diagnosed with terminal cancer.

• Never Let Me Go (2010) - Friends at an isolated boarding school face a haunting reality.

• Her (2013) - A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.

• Dallas Buyers Club (2013) - An AIDS patient smuggles alternative treatments into the US since they aren't approved by the FDA.

Two dead on the road

Nut rice, gawd