I’ll admit, I don’t know much about snowboarding, but what I was trying to say is that it’s generally easier to balance at higher speed, even if you can’t steer it.

Imagine stepping onto a frictionless surface, without being able to push off the surface you would quickly lose balance. But if you had a running start you could more easily keep balance as you coast along.

I’m not sure if it’s as simple as response time, I would imagine it could even work with something inanimate. Stand a box on its edge and it’ll fall right over, but slide it on that edge and it can balance for longer.

Then why does going faster also make it easier to balance on something without steering, like a snowboard?

My assumption is that when you’re standing still relative to the ground you can fall in many directions, but once you start moving momentum limits the directions you can fall to the ones in line with your motion. So the faster you’re moving the fewer directions you need to worry about.

You might be thinking of Taoism. Buddhism is very much a religion.

I’d guess because they aren’t theists, or at least not as a rule. As a religion it trends more philosophical than mystical.

Worker bees are all genetically diverse, but the drones are masculinized clones of the queen. The queen’s flying dicks.

They explode on penetration, breaking off from the drone, causing him to die soon after.

Splitting the vote allows an opening for fascists to take control with a minority of support, like they do.

And they compared your idea to toilets in Japan, then you got upset because it wasn’t literally identical to your idea.

That’s a good point. A little tip-rinse after going is just good hygiene.

They said toilet in every comment. Read better.

Roku has a rechargeable backlit remote with remappable buttons. It’s called something like ‘remote pro’

There’s evidence, but I don’t know enough of the science to tell how conclusive it is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139786/#:~:text=Regarding grey matter%2C the main,the anterior hypothalamus (INAH3).

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I thought it was called Union Station. The closest light rail station is in Steel Plaza. Apparently there used to be a light rail station near Union Station, and the light rail station was called Penn Station, but it closed like five years ago.

Does the light rail even make it to the Amtrak station? Last time I was in Pittsburgh I had to walk almost a mile down Grant to catch it. This map seems more aspirational than existent.

There’s adapters that allow charging at the same time. I’m not sure why audio jacks are difficult to waterproof. Samsung managed it on a few models, so it’s certainly possible.

Personally I haven’t had a situation where I wanted an audio jack in years, I assume the extra internal space goes towards things like longer battery life or slimmer form factors; not nothing, but also probably not a big deal for most people.

It seems like laptops are doing the same thing: all external ports are USB, and any specific needs get handled with dongles.

USB-C ports are pretty flexible, you can split one into many, use them for video & audio, use them for power delivery & networking, and they can transfer more data per second than cat5. It seems like manufacturers are trying to make it the one port to rule them all.

I really can’t say for sure. It rains a lot where I live, so water proofing is a pretty big boon for me. I used to carry around a USB-C to headphone port adapter, but I never used it.

That makes me wonder how the Zune pulled of having a pretty solid and clear radio without an antenna. Must have had one wrapped around the inner casing or something.

I think most USB-C ports have sensors that allow them to turn off when wet. I’m not sure what the challenges are doing something like that with the headphone jack.

Waterproofing is very difficult with a headphone jack. You’ll notice virtually every single phone with a headphone jack is ‘splash resistant’ while many without are able to survive being submerged. It also saves a relatively large amount of internal space, for something that easy to move external with an adapter.

If we’re talking about adding back in older communication standards, I would personally prefer an am/fm receiver and IR blaster; it would be cool to use my phone like a universal remote.