The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.

Upscale it to 4K for no reason

Eh, not sure it’s got anything to do with the political spectrum anymore. At this point I’m not sure what to call it but the US and allies’ obsession for maintaining ties with Israel no matter what feels divorced from… Well, a lot of things, really. But among them the left/right spectrum.

I can’t talk much. Canada is also selling Israel the supplies they use to do their mass murdering.

The US has two parties: center-right and far right.

I wonder what would happen. Let’s say 10,000 people.

Let’s say some extremist, highly organized group manages to successfully assassinate the 10,000 richest people in the world, and then disappears without a trace.

I’m guessing those people would all be succeeded by their next of kin. Would that cause a wave of change or…?

This is so weird. It reads like fiction.

Why is there a whole military briefing transcription right there in a newspaper? Isn’t that supposed to be secret?

It’s got RGB. Man, it must do so much FPS (fabric per second).

Depending on the internal design of the phone, maybe.

But batteries are rectangular and they can’t put them EVERYWHERE. There are places (such as near the USB port) where you can’t really put battery no matter what because there have to be things that would interfere with the rectangular battery.

So it might have an effect, but not necessarily, depending on design, and it might be smaller than you’d think.

Well you don’t say it draws 2 kWh at idle. You say it draws 2 kW at idle. While that is incredibly inefficient, it means that for every hour the device is idle, it draws 2 kWh of energy.

Oh yeah battery size isn’t sufficient to fully gauge battery life. You need to know power draw to calculate that. And it’s good to get battery life ratings from reviews. Great. It helps a lot.

But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get good, comparable physical specs.

Kinda like processors. Gigahertz and core counts are far from telling you everything, but it doesn’t mean it should be abstracted into some weird unit.

What? They draw power, not energy?

Energy is just the product of power and time. And just like amperage, the power draw of a device varies.

And this should be obvious, but what makes more sense to an electronics engineer doesn’t matter one bit to the end user. And the end user doesn’t know anything about milli-amperes or volts (except maybe their wall outlet voltage).

Yes. I really wish all batteries used watt-hours. All it’d take would be for someone to design a phone that runs at a different voltage and their battery numbers would stop being comparable.

I disagree. Joules are really hard to understand to laypeople. Watt-hours directly relate to the power of a device without conversion, and can even be really translated in terms of power bill.

3.6 megajoules? Eh, I guess that’s maybe a lot? Or not?

1000 watt-hours? Oh, like running a microwave for a whole hour? Dang that’s a LOT!

It saves an amount of money so minuscule it literally makes no difference.

As for thickness, the iPhone 15 is 7.8 mm thick. You cannot in good faith believe that a 3.5 mm headphone jack can’t fit in it.

So it’s called xlarge… And it makes files smaller.

Why.

You’re making me thing: can we still do that (change the OS to Windows or Linux) with the new Apple silicon Macs?