Bubbles are literally no part of the reason why I use one, I genuinely could not give less of a shit about that. The real reason is pretty simple: my old phone died and I needed a new one pretty quickly. At the time it was basically a decision between a Pixel 4a and an iPhone SE 2020, which seemed like the best options at that price point. The Pixel had a better battery, camera, and used android, with the possibility of flashing a custom rom (which all else equal I'd prefer), while the iPhone's main advantages were the much faster chip and longer support period. I probably would have gone the Pixel, but as it turned out it wasn't in stock at the time, so I got the iPhone.
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Heureusement que le ministre nous a assuré que c'est pas 1984 alors on a pas a s'inquiéter
I'm pretty into conlanging, which is basically making up languages. There are tons of different approaches and ways people can go about it, but like probably most (or at least a plurality of) other conlangers, I generally go for something as naturalistic as possible. I'm also into linguistics so it serves as kind of an interesting way to explore different features and grasp them better, as well as just an excuse to do more research to find out more about something.
One thing I really like about cubing is that it doesn't really require my full attention at this point, so I can get some practise in while listening to a youtube video where the visuals aren't that important, or a podcast or something (actually it's pretty much the only way I can bear to listen to a podcast lol).
At home my main mode of locomotion is skipping, it's just fun, also it's faster than walking
Never used to do this until I got into linguistics and now I find myself sometimes just randomly trying to produce an unfamiliar phone. Recently it's often been [ʕ] or some pharyngealised consonants since I've been looking more into Arabic
Same for crunchy dirt when it's cold enough but there's not too much snow
I have spent far too long playing Magic Arena when it’s really just awful in pretty much every way you can imagine.
The economy is unbelievably broken because randomised packs are the only direct way you can use your gold to get cards, and they’ll almost never have the cards you need or in the quantities you need to have a halfway competitive deck.
Wildcards do allow you to choose to redeem them for specific cards, but they have to be of the same rarity as the wildcard and the mythic and especially rare wildcards you need so many of are always in short supply. Getting anything decent without spending real money requires a ton of grinding. I honestly wouldn’t even mind having to spend money if I could just buy the cards directly like in Magic Online, it’s much jankier but in my opinion better predecessor, but you can’t.
Probably the best part of the game is just the digital implementation of the game mechanics, but even there are some seriously annoying issues which come up not infrequently and can lose you games (like the autotapper for some reason valuing 1 life over keeping an extra colour of mana open for responses).
Overall it just feels like 95% of the time it’s just me grinding playing games with fast aggro decks I don’t even enjoy (I’m into control but it takes way longer to get your rewards that way). It’s just so so much worse than the paper game I love and I don’t think I would ever play it if it weren’t for the fact playing in paper is stupidly expensive for pretty much any 1v1 competitive format (commander is great and all and I have a couple decks, but it’s not my preferred format).
Le Pen has stepped down as head of Front National and isn’t either.
She stepped down in 2021, which was before the last elections, elections in which she was nonetheless the RN's candidate for president. She also hasn't ruled out running again in 2027.
So much for "more informed than 90% of people commenting on this story over on reddit."
Calling to individual action to solve climate change is literally the status quo
If you use any subs related to eating disorders you’ll probably get diet stuff as well
That's kinda funny because that's probably their product category that I find the most compelling. Watches and earbuds I don't care about, phones can really go either way, but since they switched to the M chips the power and efficiency are just so good the Windows laptop just look a lot worse in comparison to me.