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Yes, as I use it to communicate with family abroad and some international group chats as well.

WhatsApp is the #1 global texting platform for a reason. It's cross platform and works on any phone that's able to download it.

None.

And not "none" because I don't have a card but "none" because I pay off any balances as soon as it posts or at the end of the month. I put all my big expenses (travel, furniture, home improvement, etc) on the card and currently have a zero balance.

My philosophy is simple - if whatever I'm putting on the credit card can't be paid with my debit card right then and there, then I don't use it. So the credit card is basically an extension of my checking account.

My 2021 Acura TLX A-Spec has a 10.2 inch center screen that's controlled by the True Touchpad Interface - however, most commonly used features (climate controls, heated/ventilated seats, drive modes) are controlled by physical buttons or knobs. That's the way it should be because I dont want all car features buried in menu after menu after menu.

I specifically do NOT want a damn touchscreen in my car. In addition to questionable safety issues with it, I don't need my screen littered with fingerprint grease and grime. Stuff like what I see on Teslas are a dealbreaker.

Let's see...

I married at 32
My older brother married at 35 and my younger brother also married at 32
In the last 2 years I've attended 4 weddings - everyone who married was over 30 (oldest was a 39/40 couple for their first marriage)
My brother-in-law is engaged - he and his fiance are 35
I'm going to France this August for another wedding - yep, the couple getting married is over 30

Well I'm married so at least one woman at some point found me attractive.

But broadly speaking, I'd say I'm attractive. I'm tall, trim, with a "swimmer's body", and as one woman said to me a few weeks ago, I should've taken up modeling.

Wouldn't recommend it, since it can definitely scare off people

That's kind of the intent. If I'm interviewing someone for a job and I get the sense that they don't want to stay with my company for long, then I don't want you.

I know some people who straight up divorced over the kids issue. It's either the conversation somehow didn't come up during the dating period or the two people had differing goals and one thought that they could change the other's mind. Me personally, I'd want to know basics up front so we're not wasting each other's time.

I think it's appropriate. On a first date, you're kind of asking questions to see if there's compatibility and whether this thing can go long term. Getting married/having kids can be a deal breaker either way so best not to waste each other's time.

I just bought a CPO 2021 Acura TLX A-Spec

Couldn't pay me to drive a Tesla. Hope you enjoy yours though.

Being in California it probably has a lot to do with climate change and natural disasters.

CableZL posted...

And many of them returned it within the allowable time frame.

Of course. Review one to get the clicks and send it right back.

So the device that was too expensive, no killer app, and terrible battery life failed to meet sales expectations? Color me surprised.

Looks like the only people who bought the stupid things were the YouTubers.

If you include the playoffs (and you should), the Lakers are 0-8 against the Nuggets in their last 8 outings. They are 0-3 just from this season.

Nuggets will clobber them. They should've lost this Pelicans game and won the Warriors/Kings game so they'd go up against OKC.

Steph Curry makes more per game than what Caitlin Clark is making for 4 years

While the contract Caitlin Clark signed is a pittance, please don't do that to her. Steph has been an international superstar sharpshooter for the last decade and has brought untold revenue to the NBA not to talk of his 4 championships. I expect great things from her in the WNBA but comparing her to Steph like that is unfair.

Wow Blake Griffin. Seems like only yesterday I was watching him in those Kia Optima commercials talking to Uvo.

I'll pour one out for him.

Married (4 years married, 13 years together)

Devices from the Galaxy S (S1, from 2010), well through the Galaxy Note 7 (2016), and beyond, though with less personal experience, as I was no longer in the industry - so it was all personal experience and what I kept up w/ online.

As I figured - you haven't reliably used anything from them in almost a decade so you being "in the industry" is meaningless if your frame of reference is from 10 years ago.

nekrodev posted...

I've generally avoided Samsung, as someone who has been in the industry, exactly because this hasn't been true, from what I've seen. Samsung often has perfectly suitable hardware, but their software has been incredibly problematic over the years.

What was the device you used and when was it? I'm typing this on a 2018 Tab S4 that I've used for everything from signing documents to remote VPN work. Your workflows may be different from mine but my devices have never let me down for what I need them to do.

All my computing devices and home appliances all sync pretty well together. Failures are few and far between and not enough to really matter. Your miles may very but I think Samsung as a company has come a long way from even 5-10 years ago.

Samsung literally turns off things like push notifications for non-official apps, without telling you, in order to preserve their constantly running tracking apps, when your battery life gets below like, 75%. Samsung is horrible for bloatware. I'm not talking about how their apps actually run, I'm talking about the s*** you don't even know is running

Well if the apps run well and they don't get in the way of what I want the device to do then why should I care? If you don't like the Samsung apps then delete and/or disable them. Am I able to delete or disable all of Apple's first party apps on an iPhone? No one calls that bloatware but that's what it is.

I'm looking at the Samsung apps I use for my phone and every single one of them can be deleted or disabled on a whim. I don't follow you.

Samsung will last over years, but they load their s*** with so much bloatware that it's insane

Nope, the Samsung apps are often better than the Google counterparts and those Samsung apps are the closest thing Android has to the Apple ecosystem.

If you buy into the Samsung ecosystem and get their devices you will see that they all play nicely together. It's Apple-like without the stupid.

Nice kitty - and I like that deck too

Not so much the dating, but the partying, roaming the casinos and even some nightclubs. My wife says no problem - just take her with me. Bless her heart.

Maryland #9

Just glad we bought when we did.

I've seen plenty of houses for sale in the five digit range, if you're ok with them being tiny, old or having major issues.

The issue is that it'll cost you the total amount the house is worth to fix all that up - ain't nobody got time for that. There's a reason why homes like that are cheap.

Yeah, my mortgage company did their yearly escrow analysis and came up with a shortage of about $3100. We have elected to pay that shortage outright (and then some) rather than roll it into the new mortgage which would have gone up by $400. The interest rate has held steady.

Our realtor (also a good friend of mine) also reminded us to file a Homestead Tax Credit with the state so more potential savings can come our way in the long run.

I got you dadbro:

One example, a few days ago I was giving my five year old a bath, and the normal way we rinse is with a small Tupperware we reserve for this. I was trying to get the soap out of his hair, but it's getting so long and thick that it was taking a ton of reps. And every time I do it, he complains about the water getting in his eyes. So I decided to try to put his head under the faucet, but that backfired like a b and he actually got water up his nose. So he's screaming and crying--probably felt to a five year old like drowning.

I can definitely see that happen. Whenever I give my daughter a bath, there's this plastic headpiece or partition we have where she wears it on her head that let's me (or my wife) get into her hair and wash it without any water getting into her eyes, face or anywhere else. It just falls right down her back. You can probably find something similar for your boy on Amazon or something so that problem gets solved.

Another example, a few days ago Mama made quesadillas for dinner--those being my five year old's favorite food--and I grabbed three of them to finish off the second of the four stacks, since they're cut into quarters. So we eat, and my five year old wants more because of course he does, so I get up and go to grab some. Mama says "make sure to get him one without barbecue sauce." That's a thing she does--she makes half of them with barbecue sauce. I had forgotten. Turns out, those were the last of the plain ones, and I had already eaten them all. So he's screaming and crying AGAIN because I ate his dinner, and it was even his favorite food.

That's it?? Lol don't be so hard on yourself. You weren't intentionally out there eating his favorite food so you can't get too worked up over that. Since it sounds like it's routine that the quesadillas get made on the regular just keep in mind to sequester the BBQ ones for your son.

And like a million other things just like that. Like, I managed to get through the day yesterday without doing something stupid, and I felt good about that, until I realized how amazingly bad of a standard "didn't screw up for three whole hours" is and than I felt even worse than I did before

Well you have to take your wins when you get them so always give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done. Mistakes can and will happen and what matters more is not the mistake you made but how you handle them. My 2 year old for some reason is regressing from the sleep training we gave her from 9 months on and there's this one particular plushie that she wants in her bed when she gets put down for sleep. In my efforts to get her to fall asleep quickly, I hadn't noticed that the plushie wasn't in her bed when I put her down for the night. Realizing that it was out in the living room from playing with it earlier, I waited in-between her waves of crying to quickly ninja into her room, drop it in her bed, and ninja out. She was probably on her way to sleep again without it but I didn't want her to wake up again and start crying about it if it wasn't there.

So it sounds like you've got nothing to worry about here. Just keep making adjustments as a dad and corrrect whatever mistakes you will inevitably make.

Everybody saying theyd make it in the nba really do overestimate their ability

Uhh what? Your premise of this topic is the ability to hit 100% of your 3s. That's the ability. NBA teams would pour money hand over fist for that kind of talent.

And again, at 6'4" I would have no problems getting my shot off either off the dribble or having someone set a pick. And if you know anything about basketball, I don't even need to launch! My mere presence on the court will collapse the defense so much that multiple teammates will be wide open for easy buckets. It's next level Steph Curry.

Klaus343 posted...

TuxedoCyan out here living the fucking dream

Not my dream. I'm 37 with a wife and kid living in my own damn house.

It's counterintuitive but I often say anything easy in life isn't worth doing.

If I could make a 3pt shot 100% of the time I'd declare for the NBA draft right now at 37 years old and become a star and make millions.

I'm 6'4" and played ball growing up all through grad school - I can and will get my shot off.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

5 and 2

Mostly because I've spent the last several weeks depressed about how damn bad I am at fatherhood.

I'm a father of a 2 year old daughter.

Talk to us bro - I'm sure you're doing the best you can and that's all you can do. I'm also winging it at this daddy thing and trying to throw in everything good my parents did for me while leaving out the bad.

She is a quantitatively and demonstrably stupid person with no redeeming values or qualities. Her term in Congress is solely meant to distort, disrupt and deceive.

Stuff like this is what they teach in grade school Earth science. But she's from Georgia so the board of education there probably struck that out from the curriculum.

Smackems posted...

You need to make a plan. You don't want to be on the receiving end of the world without one in that situation

One of my wife's friends has cystic fibrosis terminally confined to a wheelchair and she's able to hold down a WFH job as a writer. She and her husband (yep) are looking for a house last I heard.

If this guy is 42 then I wonder how old his parents are. My father died just over 3 years ago - trust me they don't last forever.

GeminiDeus posted...

Do wa Diddy. Diddy dumb. Diddy do.

Dayummm

Yep

TheSuperSilver posted...

Well Trump is the first former president to be indicted on dozens of counts so I think the most honorable thing to do would be to rename a federal prison instead.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/democrats-donald-trump-rename-prison-miami

Good job guys

thisworld posted...

A good rule of thumb is to calculate the fuel requirement using your engine's compression ratio. Higher compression ratio = higher octane needed. Google gave 9.8:1 compression ratio for your car. That's a really high compression ratio for 87. For comparison I once used 87 for a commuter bike with 9.3:1 ratio. But 87 for 9.8:1 ratio? That's pushing it too far imho.

My suggestion? Use 91. Honda most probably mentioned 87 for marketing purpose. Not too mention the use of 87 came with a caveat about knocking and top tier fuel. Knocking is a sign of premature combustion tc; keep that up and it will wreck your engine.

The line '87 won't damage your engine' was written in controlled lab condition. 20 years road use like you planned is not lab condition and if you blamed Honda, they'd just say "can you prove that you always use top tier 87? also didn't we warn you about knocking?" They wrote that caveat for legal reason.

True about compression ratio - my car's engine is 11.2:1 so 91 octane makes sense.

The manual also talks about using less than 91 octane if it isn't available as a short term solution. It explains what the premature knocking is and that the car may experience that but to stick with 91 whenever possible.

So "just use sub 91 octane and deal with the premature knocking and engine/fuel performance" is not a responsible solution long term.

Over $71+ and salaried.

Freddie_Mercury posted...

cant be worse than the rest of the lakers bench

If his name was John Smith with that stat line the NBA wouldn't even be in his vocabulary. Even now, the only reason why he's declaring is because of his daddy.

Any team that signs him is only doing so to hopefully get LeBron's final season.

Umbreon posted...

Heartbreaking if he truly has fallen in with that crowd (Speaking on Fox News isn't encouraging).

Though this could just mean he doesn't want to hurt his brand by talking about politics, because yeah everyone's looking for a excuse to declare someone "The Enemy". I mean just look at Twitter assholes who put people on list for maybe possibly allegedly being a Zionist (When that person hasn't actually said anything to deserve being labeled as such).

Then he's not the role model that he wants to be if money trumps morality.

And yeah giving that interview on Fox News tells me all that I need to know about where his mind is.

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Certainly not in the NBA. LeBron just wants that accolade at the expense of son and whether he's even good enough for the NBA (he's not) and possibly his health.

I can't as a parent understand why you would put your son through all that.

No son of mine would be playing competitive sports after having a cardiac arrest at just 18 years of age. That is about as loud as it gets for warning signs.

The kid can do whatever he wants even though he's not an NBA talent anyway.

What an incredibly daft and insensible thing for him to say.

It is your DUTY to take a stand and make your voice heard if you are someone who believes yourself to have any kind of influence in the world. If you are blessed enough to have a platform on which you can make a stand for the right causes and issues, it is your responsibility to take advantage of that. Look at all the heroes and activists the world over who we cherish and have given their lives for just causes so YOU as a minority can enjoy the success that you do now?

Pathetically weak move and he ought to be ashamed of himself.

And of course he went on Fox to say it so that tells me where his mind is.

I'm disappointed quite frankly. Makes me take a second look at him to see if he's really what I thought he was.

My Acura TL says "premium unleaded fuel only" so that's what it gets.

Specifically the owners manual asks for 91 octane but since that's not available here, I go with 93.

teep_ posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9604d5ef.jpg

My daughter is 2 years old now and I'm LOOKING FORWARD to moments like that.

You have to wonder what's wrong with people.

Right now I have 3 - family room, home office, and guest room.

My ultimate plan is to install maybe a 32" TV in the section in my basement where I want to build a wet bar. I'll also have the best TV in the house in basement since that's where the home theater will be set up. Finally, I'm thinking of in the near term getting one of those Samsung Frame TVs to install in the living room and it'll be only be used to cycle through family photos and wall art.

Under no circumstances will I ever put a TV in the master bedroom or in my daughter's bedroom.

Malcrasternus posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/00c33ab8.jpg
Just their field watch to start with. Simple and sturdy, no crazy frills.

That 8 in the date window looks misaligned. Hope that's a printing error and not something reflected on the actual watch?

The party of no platform. Quick to identify what they're against and are clueless to what they're for.