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It’s particularly choice that the reader-added context uses simple.Wikipedia.org

Ngl it’s in the weird uncanny valley for me too, I’m not sure what is going on.

This is true! There is no accounting for sentimentality.

There are certainly better investment options. You don’t see Jeff Bezos sinking his fortune into Rolexi

This has the same energy as France’s longest land border being with Brazil.

It is the longest border France shares with another country, despite not being located in mainland France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%E2%80%93France_border

I mean that’s just kinda the way it is in the US / Canada. Though I hear Canada has even higher prices for less service.

Damn I had this exact thought this morning. Granted, it’s probably just because I had to wrap up all my crypto stuff yesterday before the new regulations went into place.

Thank you for sharing this traumatic experience from your past. ಥ_ಥ

I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write this out. I definitely had stereotypes about NJ being less than pleasant based on all the memes, but I realize I should probably reconsider that. A wine -> casino -> boardwalk tour sounds like it could be fun (I have no idea of the geography so no clue if this is possible).

I thought that’s genuinely how they did it at high end restaurants to make sure you have a perfectly portioned bit of pasta cooked to the right doneness. I swear I’ve seen this method on Hell’s Kitchen.

Granted, I may be thinking about something else vs what you’re talking about but still.

Yeah I’m in the US and those “free” phone contracts over 3 years are objectively terrible deals when you look at the total cost of $100–120/mo or more with the “free” phone on one of the big three vs buying it outright and paying $25/mo (ish) with an MVNO.

Even if you assume a total cost of $100 at Verizon with the “free” phone—which I believe is a super low estimate—and you assume $45 at Visible (shameless referral plug)—which is their most expensive tier—you’re coming out at $1980 less in contracts over 3 years which could buy you (virtually) any phone you want and then some.

You cannot work on your on-premises servers if you shit the bed with your server management.

(Just playing devil’s advocate)