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Re:We Lost Our Ability to Mend on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:35PM (#19185622)
This has been one of my favorite things about the 9 months I've spent this last year in western Europe and Asia. Everything is mended and fixed, both in shops and by day-to-day individuals.

Love it.

Re:The Postmodern Family Clan on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:00AM (#19053715)
I love this so much.
Re:The Postmodern Family Clan on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:58AM (#19053702)
"...and they probably met online." That's really gonna need some citation. Given the rise of online dating to cultural acceptance is only within the last decade or so (sorry no source, I'm not a journalist :p), I find it incredibly unlikely that those family units have surpassed offline meets in number so as to make "probably" accurate.
Re:Cruel and Unusual Punishment on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:26PM (#19051567)
This is why I read harpers.
Re:Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:32PM (#19004147)
Stamps.com requires a PHONE CALL to cancel. PHONE. in 2019.
And ever forward we do march, the death of personal responsibility.
Re:I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:28PM (#18889655)
Yeah, this. We've been out of the US for a year now, works everywhere we've been (except Vietnam, though that worked out okay too because Hangouts has calls/text). Can't imagine having to hassle with a new sim every new country, esp with there being 5 of us.
For a lot of us we started with it, and once you know it, if it meets your needs, switching doesn't make sense.

Does now though [walks into corner growling] :/

Illegal is the wrong word, but still, fuck. My game uses dedicated servers built on Unity. Seems this applies even to me. Kinda shitty.
Re:Blub Paradox (2014) on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:46AM (#18855438)
The general concept becomes much more interesting when applied to spoken languages.
I use Hangouts every single day, all day. It's the only app that let's me both chat and SMS from any device I have. I'll miss it very much when it's gone, as there is simply no replacement :/