Yes, normal people do backflips while holding smartphones. This is very relatable. I am glad that Apple showcased this entirely normal human behavior in a video that is very relevant to my everyday life.

Seriously now, earlier ads like those where they had people film themselves while skydiving at least made a statement: Look how our phones can make nice videos in shaky conditions. But the only thing this tells me is that Apple have become so uncool that they must attach themselves to random celebrities in order to be noticed.

It's not even Jeff Goldblum talking about Macs. He actually talked about features back then. This is just "please notice us", which is something Apple hasn't had to say since the late 90s.

That's... really sad. It's as if we live in an "I'm a Mac" ad but now a carbon copy of the "I'm a PC" guy walks in, declares he's a Mac from the 2020s, and starts gushing about spreadsheets while insisting he's still stylish.

Protip: If you replace the "shorts" in the URI with "watch", the short gets treated like a normal video and gets the usual UI. There are browser extensions that automatically redirect you so you never have to deal with the weird shorts interface.

Well, for Gecko. I'm not sure if Chromium extensions can do that these days.

Picard's true weakness might be counting to five.

My best guess: When they make a smart TV with ads built in they make money off those ads. That makes such TVs more profitable per unit than ad-free TVs. The only way ad-free (and privacy-friendly) TVs would make them more money is if they'd sell much more units. There aren't enough people who deeply care about ads and privacy to drive such increased sales numbers.

While there is a relevant market for relatively dumb displays (companies that need digital signage), that market is willing to pay a significant markup and usually values reliability over picture fidelity. So yes, you can buy a dumb display but it might not have the most impressive picture and will definitely cost a lot more.

I didn't say anything about libertarianism or Ukraine but the AfD is spending a surprising amount of time in Moscow for a supposedly nationalist German party and is also surprisingly friendly with the supposedly hard-left BSW which also happens to be on very good terms with Russia.

How this supposedly connects to Ukraine is your problem, not mine.

Oder als Beispiel aus der Verkehrswelt: Fahrradstreifen in Mittellage. Das ist halt "in der Praxis bewährt", im Gegensatz zu so Firlefanz wie geschützten Fahrradübergängen an Kreuzungen, die lediglich durch Nichtigkeiten wie wissenschaftliche Studien und jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in den Niederlanden gestützt werden.

I had one like that for several years. His approach to interpretation was that there was his interpretation and "D, factually incorrect". And that was for homework or tests; having a differing opinion on a work during class was seen as a personal affront.

Notably, out textbook literally started with an essay written by a major author from our country that stressed how interpretation is inherently subjective and how it doesn't make sense to ask for the one correct interpretation of a text. Of course the teacher never acknowledged that essay in any way.

Step 1: Get elected as POTUS.
Step 2: Move into the White House.
Step 3: Immediately burn the whole place down.
Step 4: Stand atop the ruins waving the Canadian flag. Get gunned down by an angry mob. Go out in a blaze of confusing glory.

I'd expect politicians who want to restrict a basic right like freedom of religion to communicate what they want to do and why instead of throwing out a slogan that requires interpretation. Besides, when they did give a reasoning they kept using the word "burqa". It was pretty clear that they neither knew nor cared about any details.

The whole thing was an exercise in thinly veiled xenophobia (keeping foreign looking people off the street under the guise of helping women) and thankfully didn't get very far.

(Also, "defund the police" was a pretty bad choice for a slogan and allowed the opposition to paint the movement as hardcore anarchists.)

And even you are probably not taking about the garment you're thinking of. A burqa is specifically the one with the grille on front of the eyes and is mostly worn in Afghanistan. The internationally much more common face veil with the eye slit is called a niqab.

I learned this after five minutes of research back when conservative politicians called for a "burqa ban" in my country. That they didn't even know what kind of garment they wanted to ban or that there's more than one type of face veil told me a lot about how much thought they must've given the matter.

Ja klar, bin dabei. Man könnte zum Beispiel die VW AG wieder verstaatlichen und den Unternehmensauftrag von der Erwirtschaftung maximaler Profite auf die Bereitstellung zuverlässiger und bürgerfreundlicher Automobilität ändern. Gewisse Dinge wie millionenschwere Managergehälter müssen dann vielleicht dran glauben, aber das ist ein Opfer, das zu bringen ich bereit bin.