WTF-Beta

Foreign countries interfering with the governance of other countries?

Say it isn't so.

Disgusting.

I'm thinking about a Google Pixel 10 Pro XL.

Pros: Pixel, XL, and OLED (not AMOLED) screen (Samsung's newest AMOLED screens are too bright and harsh for my eyes).

Cons: Poor battery performance per charge and over time, glitching software issues, multiple failure of Google to fix issues with software updates.

I'm considering switching back to Apple (it's been too long time).

Battery life is very important to me, battery reliability and durability are too.

Google's Pixels have had battery issues generation after generation including the current one.

I decided this should be a deal breaker and then when I decided I want an iMac, it made sense to let it be one.

The equivalent Apple has a strong battery from everything I can tell, and an XL OLED screen with something like 450 pixels.

My one concern is the keyboards. I read they're different than Android and harder to use.

I'd like to hear about Apple phones you have and like or don't, and I'd especially like to hear about the keyboard (of a Apples but a comparison between Apple's and Android's would be great too).

Thanks!

Omg, my first dentist was a room in the back of someone's house. I wasn't very comfortable with it even as a child.

It reminds me of the homestead/ funeral home a few houses down from the house where my dad grew up.

They've had the business for anyone in my family who's died in Dutchess County.

I thought it was a morbid place then and think the same thing now.

It's an intense place! I didn't like living there but I was 26 by that time. I think I could have appreciated more if I had been younger or older.

Interesting!

The Second Empire, FTW! (j/k)

I wouldn't want to see their heating bill.

The red bathroom sink is a crime.

It's all messed up but a lot of the problems with are manmade.

As to New Orleans, of course, it's the terminus port city of the Mississippi River.

People aren't going to abandon it. It's just not going to happen it.

That's a nice picture of the city after the levees were, um, taken out by the storm, um, no, um, well, whatever happened to them.

I had moved about a year before this happened.

I left because of the crime. It had the #1 homicide rate.

Avoiding the flood was a random bonus.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out he has dementia, is a malignant narcissist, and lives in his own fantasy world.

It looks like it will turn out to have been a good investment from the data provided.

Well, it's already flooded once. Katrina wasn't because of the storm. Everything was fine the next morning. Until it wasn't. So, it will flood again? This time they won't be able to save it? People didn't relocate to higher ground since that city was founded by the French. They aren't going to start now.

Well, the election would have to be 100% rigged it he were to do that, and, win. There's no way he's electable.

Will he? I don't know. Yeah, he's a first born son, so it might seem logical, but I don't follow stories about him closely enough to know; I have to hit "stop" if I see his face.

Anyone who underestimates Russia's military capabilities is an idiot.

But I guess we're meant to believe Ukraine is causing a crisis for the continued existence of Russia.

Ok, then.

The sainted Ukraine which massacred 100,000 Poles in 1943.

The absurdity of it all reminds me of Trump's military parade.

Maybe Cold War style military parades are just anachronistic and dumb.

Well, the war isn't winnable. If one defines "a win" (and Trump has dementia; he hasn't defined "a win") then whatever "win" equals, it doesn't equal anything militarily realistic for the US.

I'd add Trump's doesn't have guts. He is a cognitively impaired con artist who is frightened half out of his mind that he will be assasinated by Iran.

The irony is Iran never planned to assasinate him until he assassinated Iran's head of state.

He isn't going to finish anything. He doesn't even know what he's trying to do let alone how to do it.

Hear, hear!

Hahaha!

Iran controls the strait. The conceit the US is policing it would probably be entertaining if it weren't abjectly pathetic.

I live in a mobile home (technical term, trailer-- colloquial term, mobile homes manufactured after c 1980 are technically manufactured homes).

I know a thing or two about it.

These home that were build in 1943 were not much different than manufactured homes today.

They were built cookie cutter style in suburban developments but used mass production and assembly line methods.

The result was the house would last the life of the mortgage if it was maintained well enough.

In contrast, the oldest inhabited house in Europe dates to c 1040.

I'm glad Florida has concrete block on concrete slab housing stock built between the '40's through the '70's.

The units in condo buildings are a steal because the market for sellers is bad and projected to get worse through this year.

The single family houses are still selling for very high prices.