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  • Ellipses as pauses is a leftover of telegrams which bled into the era of limited text messages(and/or charging by the text), because the financial incentives for long single messages were the same.

    In the era of unlimited texting, though, we've dropped that convention because it's extra keystrokes. In fact, we've even dropped the period at the end of sentences in texts because you can just hit the send button as a thought separator, sending multiple texts.

    Including the period is unnecessary extra information, so it is seen as formal at best or even a way to covey unhappiness, anger, or frustration.

    Hope this helps! Note that none of this applies to longer form messages like this one.

  • Are those the original tires from the factory?

    They wear out at 30-35k miles, just FYI. EVs weigh more than ICE cars- it's harder on the tires.

    You can buy aftermarket tires that will last much longer, but you lose the internal foam that dampens road noise. Make sure you match the tire size. EVs require fairly specific heavy-load tires.

  • That's not how metabolism works. You'd need to get into a starvation state before the number of calories getting burned changes significantly - and that takes a long time.

    If you actually need constant snacks throughout the day, you should get checked for diabetes.

  • Sure, but the company fronted the millions of dollars required to develop the technology. The investment needs to come from somewhere.

    That doesn't have to be a private company, though. We need public funding that retains the patent rights, if not just to make the invention free from licensing costs to manufacture.

    The insane thing about our current system is that we do have public funding, but private companies wind up with the patent anyway

  • Not to take away from your message, but what you've called out is under the umbrella of 'intersex' and genetic disorders, not necessarily trans. There can be large overlap between the two, but they are separate things.

  • So that's what happened to my Blu-ray drive on my PC! I had to flash the firmware to a custom version for ripping to get it to read anything.

    That is incredibly shitty behavior. I'm putting the disk that I purchased into my own hardware. The studio already got my money from the sale, why the hell do they care?

  • Nah. This would require an update be sent out to every blu ray player, which is not feasible unless they were all standardized to a single database or service for their license keys.

    Even if that were the case, which it's not, the device would need to connect to the internet for this scheme to work.