TurboDiesel @ TurboDiesel @lemmy.world

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iPhones have the largest share of the US smartphone market. iMessage is the default messaging app on every iPhone, and cannot be changed. Ergo, iMessage is one of the top 5 largest messaging apps in the US. I believe it's number 3 or 4 behind FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and FaceTime (also an Apple product).

Some places still don't have a customer-facing terminal, like my bodega.

I bought mine from a place called Cucu Covers

Rabbinical scholars argue about the correct translation of Genesis to this day. So you saying they're "literal days" is meaningless.

I have a sticker on my debit card that makes it look like a Blockbuster card. I get so many confused looks when I had it to cashiers.

Holy shit. Thank you, now I get it. He just made one HELL of a bad deal. I read your update; your brother's wife should probably take away his checkbook 🤣

Don't have the article handy but I believe it was wired that reported on the decreasing contrast between the white text and green background across several iterations of iOS.

Edit: WSJ from 2018. I can't find a way behind the paywall. And Medium. Also from '18

Oh, I meant I'm not understanding how the value of the new house was halved over the course of this year. OP said his brother paid $1.2MM in 2023, but the house is now valued at $650k. Admittedly I'm a renter and I don't really "get" the housing market, so a house going from $600k to $1.2MM over 4 years makes sense to me, but to halve in under a year seems drastic.

Then they're assholes. Seems pretty simple, no?

For someone in their 40s, they're probably stuck in the iPhone=rich/Android=poor dichotomy that Apple curated when the iPhone launched. That makes them vain and materialistic, and thus probably not people you want to be around if it's that important to them.

Now, if you want to get into how Apple has been changing the contrast ratios on the text for blue and green bubbles to make the green messages harder to read, as well as intentionally making the green color unpleasant, there's something there.

How does that even work? Was the '23 assessor drunk?

Sounds like your friends are assholes then. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I have literally never as an adult had someone go "ew green bubbles." Now, my teenage nephew? The iCult is STRONG with kids.

Maybe they're days on a logarithmic scale?

They'll just start funding more terrorist organizations and attacks à la 9/11. The Saudis are no one's friends and the world would do well to remember that.

My mom's favorite line growing up was, "and that's why you don't do that."

My first thought as well. Like, Armenian genocide says what?

To each his own, but your use case seems like the worst way to accomplish what you need. There are so, so many apps that will allow you to pin a widget to one of your homescreens with a to-do; why on earth would you want to have that living in your notification shade? I have a Keep to-do widget and the Android battery widget on a second homescreen to the right of the main. Exactly as much work as pulling down the shade, except I swipe left instead of down, and no chance of accidentally clearing the persistent notification.

This child is unhinged.

We stan.

Oh yeah. I firmly believe every single American should be forced to work either retail or food service for 1 year. Maybe it'll teach them some goddamn empathy.

My worst was working for Best Buy. One Christmas someone's hellspawn decided that if he didn't get a new PlayStation he was going to knock over the DVDs. All of them. It was like a cartoon; he just sprinted down the aisle with his arm out cackling like a tiny Joker.

Food banks. Look at your local church, synagogue, or mosque. A lot of them do community outreach and have some kind of food bank.

If you're skipping meals or you have $5 'til next Friday, the food bank is for you. Don't feel like you're taking something away from someone "more needy." It's you. You're needy. Take the help. That was a hard lesson to learn in my 20s.

Remember, if you see someone stealing food, no you fuckin' didn't.