The point of the Kin was that it was supposed to create a new service tier in between dumb phones and smart phones with expensive plans. At the time phones came with 2 year contracts that subsidized the cost of the phone. A basic plan came with $175 worth of subsidy which covered a dumb phone. If you added $30/month for unlimited data, you would get $350 off the the up front cost of a smart phone.

Microsoft’s idea was that parents didn’t want to pay that much for a smart phone for their teens. But a teen would get plenty of benefit from something in between which would allow them to use a non SMS messaging service and browse social media. Plus it had a keyboard.

It’s still Verizon’s fault. But it wasn’t lack of promotion. The Kin didn’t make sense without the accompanying plan.

Ridiculous. I couldn’t name a more trusted brand of RAM.

§cience

Since it’s probably not clear to those unfamiliar, this is literally true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act

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Congratulations, you have reversed entropy

That’s why I always suffix my Google searches with my neighbor’s name. He always signs his texts.

I assumed this was going to be a solution to Japan’s problems of an increasingly elderly population combined with a refusal to increase immigration.

Actually sushi has to have rice by definition so sashimi isn’t sushi.

Hop water

I think the lack of veggies is worse than the excess of meat. This way it just sits in your colon causing cancer.

Weird coincidence. I woke up with the song Ghetto Supastar in my head this week. I probably hadn’t heard it in over a decade.

I turned it off from the gmail android app and as soon as I returned to the inbox there’s a notification asking me to flip it back.

Reminds me of a similar gadget I had that was just for applying home printed label stickers on burnt CDs

For the sake of argument I think you could say that you’re depriving a scavenger of a meal. I don’t know if that’s how veganism is usually framed.

If you like that chewiness, try farro.

In 2018, SNAP benefits supplied roughly 40 million Americans, at an expenditure of $57.1 billion.[2][3] In 2017, approximately 9.2% of American households obtained SNAP benefits at some point, with approximately 16.7% of all children living in households with SNAP benefits.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program

In the scheme of things, the interruption of SNAP benefits was a blip. A cruel blip, but I don’t think it’s fair to say we don’t do anything.

The billionaires are way ahead of you