Spitting facts
I’ve been seeing a lot of controversy on the internet regarding the fact that iOS 18 is bringing RCS (which is going to make the texting experience better for literally everyone). People are saying that when compare the RCS and iMessage standards, iMessage is inherently better. They’re half correct - yes, iMessage has a lot of features that RCS will most likely never have. However, what they’re missing is the fact that iMessage isn’t a standard. It’s a proprietary, internet-based chat software owned exclusively by Apple. Yeah, texting between iPhones and Androids is never going to be as good as texting between two iPhones, but it’s not because there’s a superior “standard”. It’s because Apple knows that their ecosystem is how they lock customers in, and so they won’t ever allow iMessage to be a standard, nor will they try very hard to keep up to date with RCS standards.
fun fact: i ate zero (0) grilled cheeses in the past nine (9) days, however, over the course of that time, i have eaten three (3) ham-and-cheese sandwiches, whether i eat grilled cheese today remains to be seen
i love it when i search the name of a youtube channel followed by the name of one of their videos into duckduckgo, and out of the top five listicles that came up, three of them have the same number in the title
did i seriously just hallucinate reeses puffs and CPR when i got auto-suggested misery
why is it that “one has to select it [an en dash] as a special character, whereas the em dash can be conjured with two hyphens“
why can’t en dash be -- and em dash be ---
cw: quote from misogynistic satire(? uh, by that i mean saying misogynistic things in a way that makes fun of so-called alpha males, i don’t know of a better way to phrase it)
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As an exercise in somethingsimilartoconnotation, provide three slide whistle sound effects and three distinct contexts where only one of the three sound effects fits in each context.
today very well could be the first time i’ve seen a sign for a mens’ room that said “gentlemen“ and not just “men“
same !!! /s
OH BOY, SUMMER! I SURE DO LOVE
Neuros external systems warning: overheating!!!
"i don't think people should be climbing on hospital awnings, i think that's a bad thing to do, generally. you could fall down and hurt yourself. you could cause some damage to hospital property, conceivably. i will go so far as to say that that rises to the level of mischief, bordering even on nuisance. if i had been there i think i would've delivered a stern finger-wagging and said 'tsk tsk!' quite sharply"