Upset about getting curved by the only Tinder match they’d had in months after she saw their green bubble

Bicycling requires strength and endurance.

So does cleaning a house, but that’s “women’s work”.

Is it that you’re in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?

That’s it. You didn’t get it at first because made the mistake of associating manliness with things like patience, strength, hard work, endurance both of toil and hardship; all things that do make up ideals of manliness to normal people. But you need to approach it from the perspective of a wastrel, a weak, foolish, and lazy person who demands the respect and deference of being manly without putting in the hard work—something he has avoided all his life. He might praise hard work in abstract, but he has no discipline for it and doesn’t respect those who actually do it, he just considers them beneath him. To such a person, the defining aspect of manliness and machismo is mastery, mastery over others and their wills, and since mastery through work is a waste of time to him, he turns to shortcuts.

From there, it’s not hard to see where the thought process goes. Since strength is to him based on control and mastery, he picks something that gives him more command over the road in a direct and in-your-face way. The man who drives a lifted Ram 2500 can confront you by running you the fuck over. By contrast, in his opinion, cyclists are entitled jackasses in miniscule booty shorts who can only confront you on the road by screaming “CRITICAL MASS! FUCKING CAGER!” and throwing sparkplugs at your windows. The difference in power dynamic is proof enough to our friend of who the “real man” is.

To take the mentality to its conclusion, the easiest way to gain mastery in general is through authority, and the easiest way to get that, even easier than joining a gang, is by becoming a cop.

Given the number of times I’ve seen cops on police forums and r/protectandserve use terms like “bikefags”, I think it’s just the typical cop disgust of anything they perceive to be weak or effeminate.

Let’s just fast forward, shall we?

“Google denies rumors of bumps under Pixel 8 Pro displays”
“Google says bumps under Pixel 8 Pro displays are caused by mishandling and water damage”
“Google refuses to repair bumps under Pixel 8 Pro displays”
“Owners of Google Pixel 8 Pro left holding the bag over faulty displays”
“European Union fines Google $50M over defective Pixel 8 Pro displays, but non-EU customers still waiting for repair”
“Google denies rumors that Pixel 8 Pros with faulty displays were replaced with refurbished models instead of being repaired”

Maybe it’s a way to trick the public into content-checking those gore videos with titles like …ø·ø ̈ùšù„ø©

Say “go fuck yourself lul” into the mirror to save yourself some time.

Im sorry I won’t converse with someone that thinks the best way to “win” an internet slap fight is to deliberately misinterpret people and then play dumb.

Have a great day and try to be better.

He was completely right. It’s really shameful to hide your head in the sand like this just because somebody used brusque language. Would it really kill you to just admit you got it wrong?

Android has supported hotswapping SIM cards and microSD cards for over a decade

This man is in desperate need of both tar and feathers

Put some respect on Cinnamon’s name

Indeed, the reason they added the option was because of how many people were just putting their custom thumbnail as the middle frame of their video, which was jarring every time it happened.

As far as production value and drawing in the audience, I really don’t care. I would much rather just not see obnoxious shit no matter who it benefits. But that’s what happens when one website has an effective monopoly, people have to scratch out any advantage they can within the closed system because there just aren’t enough viewers to go around. At this point, what viewers click on is basically irrelevant anyway because we’ve crossed over the feedback loop point: because it used to drive engagement on its own, a pog face thumbnail is necessary because not having one gets your channel sent to Algorithmic Deprioritization Purgatory even faster than criticizing youtube on social media does.

Because doing so is, to people who run businesses, throwing money in the dumpster

YouTube worked fine for almost a decade that way. Custom thumbnails are pretty recent.

Bad news for the 3 or 4 people out there who didn’t just use the package manager to install everything.

The thumbnail should be the frame closest to the middle of the video’s runtime, with no regard for context. I have an extension that does just that.

“The best phone in the world”

Oh cool so it has a headphone jack right?

Only thing really missing is Wallet and NFC support

It’s for this reason I keep having to temper my recommendation of degoogled Android, because I often forget most people don’t consider that a feature.