Great app, though!

I’ve been following this phone for a while, it’s nice to see there is a market out there for this kind of thing. The BlackBerry-esque design does look quite cool, although if I were to use a minimalist smartphone myself I’d probably go for the Mudita Kompakt instead. It’s just a bit more practical for my lifestyle, with the much smaller body, normal on-screen keyboard and de-Googled OS. There’s also another newish one called the Bigme Hibreak Pro which is the most “normal” overall.

can this phone handle those situations too?

It can, the Minimal Phone is not a dumbphone, privacy-focused or even minimalist and that was a conscious choice by the company. It’s just a normal Android smartphone with an e-ink display and a physical keyboard (and a headphone jack). The “Minimal” in the name is referring more to minimalising the phone’s influence on your life, because the e-ink screen is a barrier to so many addictive activities like doom-scrolling and video playback. It is not minimal in features at all and is designed to be able to do all of the important real-world task stuff, should you need it to.

For YouTube I use grayjay for without an account, it works fine for me, and I really like it.

OP is switching to iPhone. Grayjay isn’t available on iOS.

Everything gets canceled eventually.

This isn’t even remotely close to being true. There are plenty of series that complete their planned runs and have the time to tell an entire story.

This episode basically commented on that phenomenon. Cartman loses the joy of living because there are no more “woke” people left for him to laugh at. I wish more people on the left understood that by constantly trying to control what everyone else is doing they are just creating things for the right to “resist” against. If people want to use a word in a context completely divorced from its original intent, just let them do it.

when it actually mattered

It never mattered. It’s a comedy show, no one was going to change their vote based on it. How can you still not get it after two election wins and political influence spanning a decade?

You’re obviously a big fan of the books so I guess that makes a difference as well (I have only read the first one). To me, this was just another generic 6/10 fantasy show with nothing particularly special or exciting about it so without a complete story and the promise of a potential big payoff the third season has nothing to offer. I will, of course, miss Rosamund Pike!

They had the chance to show how ridiculous trump was back then

???

Trump has always been obviously ridiculous. You guys need to get over this idea that the people voting for him are going to have some magical come-to-Jesus moment and join the rest of us in reality after watching an episode of South Park or reading a non-“sanewashed” news article.

Retard is a “slur” that should definitely be normalised, and indeed it was until a group of virtual-signalling losers decided it was very offensive again and tried to cancel anyone who used it. It stopped being used in relation to the intellectually disabled a long, long time ago and was just another generic insult for decades. Ironically, it is the people who complain about it today who are actually the ones giving the word power - if they had just shut the fuck up it would have continued to fade into irrelevance.

I started the second season of ‘Gannibal’ but the drop in quality from the first season has been so significant that I’m questioning whether I want to continue. It went from small town thriller to this comically violent shlock thing where the point of every scene and conversation seems to be to create yet another confrontation so yet another fight can be shoehorned in. It’s an adaptation of a manga and it really shows in this second season.

I like to see things through to the end.

That’s my issue - I don’t get to see things through to the end because they literally do not have an ending.

I haven’t watched the third season. I watched the previous two, so I was considering it (this show was never a priority for me), but I am very thankful that you made this post because now that I know it has been cancelled I won’t waste my time on it.

The way they satirized Trump’s first election is when I really stopped watching South Park because it showed they don’t actually keep it real and just insult everyone and everything like they claim. If that’s truly the best they could do with that whole trainwreck of a human being then they have lost their talent.

So did you watch the latest episode or…?

Matt and Trey are not the liberal heroes some people seem to believe they are.

I know Americans only see the world in binaries but there is a lot more to politics than “liberal vs conservative”. The views of the creators clearly sit outside of that dichotomy, and they reference and mock their own political disengagement in this episode.

Lumo represents one of many investments Proton will be making before the end of the decade to ensure that Europe stays strong, independent, and technologically sovereign. Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

This shift represents an investment of over €100 million into the EU proper. While we do not give up the fight for privacy in Switzerland (and will continue to fight proposals that we believe will be extremely damaging to the Swiss economy), Proton is also embracing Europe and helping to develop a sovereign EuroStack for the future of our home continent. Lumo is European, and proudly so, and here to serve everybody who cares about privacy and security worldwide.

Good stuff hidden at the bottom of the article.

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In general I agree, but my understanding is that the pirate streams of live sporting events were cracked down on quite hard. There was definitely a dip at one point where the high quality SopCast and Ace Stream broadcasts that had become very popular for competitions like the Premier League (e.g. Bloodzeed) disappeared quite suddenly and weren’t replaced with anything comparable.

I’m sorry but I can’t live in a world without derivative British TV documentaries.

It’s better to read the study rather than the article written about it. The study isn’t much longer, is easy to read (not written at an academic level of English) and has a lot of graphs and images to help convey the key information.