Yeah, super hard to find…

It never went away. It’s still a feature. It’s just stored locally on your device. Thats it.

They buried sandbags.

Misleading as fuck. The Timeline feature never went away - it’s just device-only.

Yeah, the one with a bit driver on the back

¿Por qué no los dos?

You can see the corner of it poking out of my pocket if you zoom in

So instead of a rotten peach, you went for the rotten strawberry.

Odd.

Waze has been owned by Google longer than it’s existed on its own, for several years now.

These 6.5" and 7" phones don’t fit in pants pockets. Yet I don’t see any guys out there wearing fanny packs or carrying purses around with them like women. Where do they stick them? Are they all sticking their phones up their butts?

Let’s play “where’s the Pixel 9 Pro XL in a case with a magsafe wallet attached”:

Size was never the point of the Pixel A-series. The point was “less features for less money”. Sometimes it happened to come in a smaller device.

Not just manufacturers, my friend. People use their phones for media, which is always better on a bigger screen.

First and foremost: nobody buys them. Manufacturers would build smaller versions of their flagships, but many would be severely limited or use lower-spec parts compared to said flagships. Or, the models that were high-spec like their larger siblings would cost almost as much, and so the average person will just get the bigger one because to most people, bigger = better.

It may not make sense to those of us more familiar with tech, but that’s not the point.

Also - nobody has heard of Sharp Aquos phones. I’ve got one of their TVs (from 2007 lol), but even I didn’t know they made phones until this post.

Nevada doesn’t even own most of Nevada.

100%. I say this in jest quite a bit, but I’m absolutely serious this time - Nobody is this stupid.

Ace Combat

That actually looks like a fun game.

Ok, cool. But I don’t think your experience would still be very good if you were joined by an additional trainload of people riding 4x4s right alongside you. It’d be time to pave over that canyon so that the people visiting it can park.

Completely missed the point. Less “general public” is the entire idea of offroading in remote locations with no cell service or anything else. It takes actual skills to get up there, and the more-skilled people tend to be more respectful of the lands. But I digress.

And trains aren’t mutually exclusive with cars. I might take the train to visit my parents a few cities over, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a highway for the moving truck to drive along when I had to get my stuff over to where I live now.

For sure. I don’t disagree with that at all. I’ve moved across the USA twice, and both times it was more cost-effective to just drive. Paying a transporter to haul a minivan, paying a moving company to ship my family’s stuff, and loading us all on a plane to live at the in-laws while we wait for our stuff to arrive - was our first choice. However, I did the math and found that sending my family on a plane while I rented a UHaul trailer and just towed it with the minivan was over $1000 cheaper, despite the 5-day drive I had to do. But I enjoyed it.

No-one is saying no-one should drive a car. Rather, that the right tool for the right job should be used. In the US, cars are used for a lot more than what they’re best at. That you are using them effectively for personal use, is not a reason to also have them used where they aren’t as effective (in this case in comparison to trains, large volume transit of people who are mainly transporting themselves between hubs of human activity).

Absolutely. I just get really fucking tired of seeing the “fuck cars” morons beating a dead horse over and over again with “all cars are bad and should be illegal right now”.

In Tokyo, Shinjuku train station routes 3.8 million people to where they are going, EVERY, DAY.

And it’s a beautiful thing. The fact that Japan is roughly the size of the entire US east coast and somehow manages with trains just fine is an engineering marvel.

Interstate 5 in the US, the busiest in the country, does a pathetic 0.75 million a day on its busiest strip. And the cost-effectiveness of trains beats out cars waaay before you hit capacity on such a highway.

I don’t disagree with this either.

Honestly though, for general “getting around”, I just prefer my bikes.

Of course; do you not?

A train can’t take me up remote roads 15 miles up a canyon to destinations that only a capable 4x4 can reach (this is the point of those roads), then take me out the other end of the canyon via those trails into a small town with a delicious diner and ice cream shop. All while checking out abandoned mines (no I don’t go in), ghost towns, and other history from before my time.

And yes, I do this often.

I would argue that the Scottish kilt is one of the manliest items of clothing to exist. Its “gender-normative” equivalent is essentially a skirt.

I know, just saying out of all the unrealistic bullshit that comes out of Trump’s mouth hole, this isn’t that unrealistic.