Yep! I own both a pair of AirPods and a pair of Beats. The Beats were designed for a lower price point, without noise cancellation, than the AirPods so I can’t offer a head-head comparison.

Yes to get really seasick, you need stabilizers and seven wine pairings.

>> "I now have to spend the entire day talking about Hitler."

… ironic result

Starting in the CompuServe era, and ending in about 2001, I was a voluntary member of the MVPs for Windows programming. You would get swag, including a full MSDN subscription. My reason for joining this and for otherwise posting hopefully helpfully on forums was to lower the barrier to Windows programming.

I was idle vis-à-vis this by about 1999, and was excluded from the benefits as a result.

Then I posted on several threads within rec.autos.bmw and I got an extra year or two of benefits.

I have been happy with the serendipity of YouTube’s algorithm generally. I followed an external link to a YouTube video about an exotic piano, and played a few related videos afterwards. These were videos about other unusual musical instruments, such as very high-pitched and very low-pitched wind instruments. And somehow that was part of a process leading to Japanese metal bands.

Dopamine-driven behavior in ourselves is certainly to be watched for.

That's weird. They keep showing me rage-bait videos with like 100 views. I'd much prefer pianos and Japanese metal bands.

I DO miss the discoverability. I really do. But my self control for watching shorts ends up being incredibly self sabotaging. I truly wish I could permanently disable shorts in some way. I wish I could use my DNS to block shorts, but alas they're not distinct.

I worked with CFG80211/MAC80211 on an old Linux kernel years ago. I don’t think time of day is in any packet.

As an aside, because it would not be germane to automotive safety…

In the Coast Guard Auxiliary “Sailing and Seamanship” class that I attended, targeting would-be sailboat skippers, we were told the USS Ranger nuclear-powered aircraft carrier had the right-of-way.

In Encinitas, California, that sign would have no more than 20 MPH. In adjacent Carlsbad, I believe 25 is normal.

I vividly recall a shot within a commercial, in which a driver was shown in slow motion, chucking his coffee into the passenger foot well in order to have two hands on the wheel for an emergency. I don’t remember what was about to happen to the car or the world around it. I’m pretty sure that a collision occurred.

40 and over is a “protected group” in US employment law. 30 year old people are not protected.

Really? The US only protects age discrimination of some ages not all?

Only older people are deserving of equal protection, because they reliably vote. Young people get screwed over for everything else.