Good noise canceling + no ringing for under 100 is a really tough category, but I think Anker makes some ok ones with hybrid active noise cancellation (generally less ringing) right at $100: Soundcore Life Q20.

One thing I can’t recommend is a used pair of Sony XM3s, because they caused incredible pressure in my ears when the noise cancellation came on. They worked phenomenally well at blocking noise, but they effing hurt.

There was a period in the 90s where either Wednesdays or Thursdays you could get a hamburger for .29¢ and a cheeseburger for .39¢ which is about all they’re worth.

I love a floor pill. “So, we going up or we going down?”

No, no, totally relatable. When I finished/passed my dissertation defense (zoom meeting due to Covid), I closed my laptop, put my stuff away, and thought, _ that was it?_ Zero sense of accomplishment. I had lost interest in the whole thing a year or two earlier and this was just an exercise in completion. I don’t think you’re alone with this pattern or feeling in the least.

The ISP motto: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”

Sadly, this isn’t unusual. Sidenote: the movie The Day Shall Come is an excellent dark comedy based on this type of operation.

“John Wayne Toilet Paper: don’t take shit off nobody.”

Your commission, Debo: “about two hundred dollars.”

Second Emisar. I suggest looking through ZeroAir for some recommendations on where to get started with chargers. Or if you’re a masochist who likes details, this is pretty thorough.

If we’re going mutually assured destruction we’re going high CRI

When C. Diff Strikes: Mile High Edition

Don’t worry, we’ll shovel more garbage reality shows into your app and wreck the ux even harder. Here’s 40 seasons of people having diarrhea on airplanes. Expect price increases in 6 months.

It’s not technically hacking when Elon leaves the door open after slamming his dick in it.

There’s a quote variously attributed to a bunch of people that’s along the lines of “you can’t reason someone out of a corner they didn’t reason themselves into” — not to say your friends didn’t necessarily come by a faulty logic to get themselves there; rather that there’s some innate values that were interpellated by the rhetoric of the so-called redpill, and you’re unfortunately seeing an aspect of them that was always there but perhaps in different forms. It’s not worth your time to argue with them, and sadly, may not be worth your time to be in that environment either.

I am also reasonably sure — not 100%, but reasonably — that Siri has something to do with the transcription process for visual voicemail.

Tried to catch a knife I dropped, forgetting the old maxim: “a dropped knife has no handle.”

Nonsense. This place is refreshing, like the bold taste of New Coke.