@sun According to advertisers, total yearly actives dropped by 5% from 353.9 to 335.2 million from 2023 to 2024, whereas the number of monetizeable daily actives increased from 229 to 237.8 million. I know my use has significantly increased, unfortunately driven by politicized bullshit. Look at this beautiful video of Russian ICBMs striking Dnepro (the first thing I saw on TwitX today): https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1859624574704550141
@sun You may be right about 20 years. The "Miss Stevenson bangs a boy" episode of South Park aired on October 18, 2006. The PA "Pedo Unicorn" [1] followed 2 years later as the narrative developed. The earliest post in "Teach Women Not To Rape (Cont'd)" series at Instapundit appears to be made in 2014[2], preceded by a precursor[3]. The South Park clearly was a thought leader on this.
@sun Oh yeah, that'll do it. You needed the other one too.
When I was in college, I caught some kind of sinus infection. At the time I had no idea what a sinus was, or where it was located. A buddy told me, "bah, it's just your snot rotted". Armed with such advanced medical knowledge, I pressed on the affected area until something popped, and a bunch of dark brown material exited my nose. But it cleared the problem!
@sun Bro. I once took a trip with cold[1]. The pain was insane and I was in agony for 5 hours straight.
[1] I was returning with my daughter from a gifted camp in JHU in Boston in the dead of winter. We slept on the floor in the museum and I caught a cold.
@a@sun Maybe technically. But I recall a different narrative: only complete nerds were able to navigate the insane, arcane feature set of G+. The experience was a total shit for normal people, which is why it failed: nobody wanted to use it.
But I was about to remember that here was an episode of Simpsons where a character (IIRC it was Moe, a bar owner) courts a lady. Her name was Renee. She goes full on and keeps saying "charge it to my club card" (a 1970s credit card, I gather). At some point he bumps against his credit limit, and I don't remember how it ends.
@Nudhul@sun@anemone Being 6'7" I pay attention to headroom and I found that BMW X3 offers enough.
The kvetching about trucks used as basic transportation misses the fire extinguisher problem. I knew a guy, who lived in Jersey across from NYC. A typical lib NPC, Prius and VW. Then a few years back they had an unexpected flood. His redneck neighbour evacuated my friend in a Silverado through the flood. When he returned, he bought the baddest Tundra the money could buy without modding. Naturally his partisanship didn't permit an F-250, and even he realized what a dumpster fire Titan was, ergo Tundra.
@sun TBF I'm not a fan for 787. The seats are perhaps somewhat more ergonomic, but I'm not sure. What I'm sure about is the electronic windows, which are controlled by the crew. So they can force them open, and they do. Also, the windows block radio signals, so GPS does not work.