I mean, all the phones I’ve ever had (including my current Samsung A52 from a couple years back) have a headphone jack, but I haven’t used anything wired in around 6 years.

I just find Bluetooth to be much more convenient and a nicer experience. I even bought a Bluetooth adapter for my desktop so I could use the same headphones there.

Not to mention, I just looked and there are plenty of phones with 3.5 mm jacks on the market, so it looks like the option is still out there for those that prioritize such a feature.

I want to see a new Home Alone where 44-year old McCauley Culkin plays an 8 year old and no one acknowledges that he isn’t actually 8 years old.

You are right on those points, but it’s always easier to police/regulate local corporations than foreign ones since you have more tools at your disposal.

With foreign networks, you can only really levy fines and ultimately threaten to ban them from the country.

I mean, I know this won’t be a popular opinion, but it’s a huge security risk to allow any non-european social network.

Yeah, I played through the whole thing on my steam deck and it was mostly a great experience.

The last act was, performance wise, pretty rough though. Maybe there was some setting I could have changed to make it smoother, but the framerate was only about half what I got during the other acts.

In that case every country would add up to 100%, since the top category is “10 books or more”.

It can vary depending on the context, but essentially it just means that you can only read/write at a fairly basic level.

For instance, imagine someone who reads at a 4th grade reading level. They can get through basic aspects of life, but get totally lost/overwhelmed if they are presented with anything more complex. For instance, they wouldn’t be able to comprehend most official letters. (Thus is especially an issue in Germany since Amtsdeutsch seemingly tries to be intentionally complex…)

They are effectively locked out of most modern jobs, because they can’t parse emails effectively or formulate a fitting reply.

It’s also something that people are generally very self-conscious about and get pretty good at hiding.

Yeah a similar policy in the UK (from 10ish years ago) is one of the biggest reasons for hugely inflated prices among small properties.

Obviously, the only real solution is to work to lower real-estate prices, but that would be unpopular with most home owners (who are a majority in the US).

Exploding property process will do that.

Average houses in most cities are at or over 1 million easy.

Yup, this is just a replay of early 20th century. Inequality exploded and eventually you had revolutions virtually everywhere (in europe and the west, ar least).

Some were extreme-left (communism)

Some were extreme-right (facism)

Some were far-left for the time (social-democratic, or “new deal” as it’s known in the US)

Some were violent, some were relatively peaceful.

But they were basically all inevitable, the people were frustrated and willing to support whatever platform promised something ‘different’.

We’re at that point currently, but only the far-right is offering anything different, so even though it’s a terrible option, people will gravitate towards it. The solution is to offer genuine vision of change from the left.

There was one place where i was living where you could get one for 2.90€ as recently as 2018. It wasn’t the best, but it was great value.

I moved around then, so I have no idea what it costs now.