Pirky

I really hate that man

Reminds me of the time I put a partially filled Gatorade bottle under my parents' Jeep as a kid. I remember trying to run it over with my bike, but would just go right over it. Then I got curious what the Jeep would do and wedged it under the back tire. But we didn't go anywhere till the next day, so I forgot I put it there.
The following day, we're backing out of the garage when there's a sudden loud POP. I quickly turn to look and see Gatorade covering that area of the garage. Scared the hell out of my mom.
Was an informative time for everyone involved.

It's why one must get one as soon as they can in their journey. I acquired mine last year.

In a similar vein, here's a chipmunk mlem I got a couple years ago.

Dino/dyno

By that definition, I would say they reached that milestone quite a while ago.

When I tried Sony's 5 IV last year, it came with a headphone jack. Most of Sony's lineup comes with it I believe.

In a similar vein, when you drive anywhere in your vehicle you don't keep your engine at the red line at all times. You would wear it out within 20,000 miles at best. In fact, the engine almost always tries to be at the lowest rpm feasible.
We should strive to be like our vehicles: operating at the lowest load possible, hustling only when necessary.

Invest in a bidet/washlet and your toilet paper usage will go down significantly, lowering the impact a tp shortage will have on you.
Plus you'll feel cleaner down there than you ever did with just tp. 10/10 would recommend.

They say the best gift is one they keep on using. By that logic, my best gift is the tea kettle my brother gave me on Christmas 2018. I was getting into drinking tea, but I had no convenient way to heat up the water. It quickly became my most used Christmas gift ever. Then when the pandemic happened and I started working from home, I used it multiple times a day. It's been used easily a couple thousand times in the past 6 years and it's still going strong.

Edit: Another arguably best gift is the headphones that my brother also gave me. I forget what year, though, somewhere between 2014 and 2016. They're a pair of Sony headphones and I started to use them a lot when I started office work at the end of 2017. Basically every day for most of my shifts. I used them so much the (admittedly mediocre) ear pads wore out and I had to replace them at the end of 2019. The 3rd party replacement pads are significantly better and show absolutely zero wear. I stopped using them as much when I upgraded to a wireless pair in 2022, but they still get used every week for work meetings and calls on Teams. I've definitely put a few thousand hours of use into them over the past decade.

I remember reading something like this about a decade ago. It's why I much prefer loose leaf tea and use a metal sieve/strainer.