I don’t think you’re supposed to have your opinion swayed by what teens think but it is important to know what they think because they reflect future trends and ideals.
I’m in my early 20’s and I just changed my iPhone for a Pixel, actually. Got fed up with a lot of the Apple crap, and the Pixel looked sick. Then again, I’m not American and I don’t use SMS anymore, so no one I talk to would ever know what OS I’m using.
The fact that Americans still use SMS is fucking bizarre. It’s like the Japanese still using fax in this day and age for some reason
The movie is awesome, but it gets me down thinking about how many shitty toy “but with grown-up humour” movies we’re going to get after this, just because now every studio in the world is going to join the bandwagon.
I kind of agree that remote working every single day gets very socially deprived very quickly. Although the office isn’t a place for socialising, not having anyone to talk to day in day out at work drives me a bit mad.
But I also think 90% of the time, working from home is better. Maybe a hybrid model where you only go to the office once or maximum twice a week or something could work for most people. The introverts and the extroverts reaching a compromise.
I just bought myself a pixel to replace my iPhone. So I guess I’m part of that growing trend. Personally the only thing that worries me is that I’ve heard the 7 and 7a have kind of crappy fingerprint detection, and I really would love to use it. But otherwise, I’m pretty excited for this!!
I just bought myself a pixel to replace my iPhone. So I guess I’m part of that growing trend. Personally the only thing that worries me is that I’ve heard the 7 and 7a have kind of crappy fingerprint detection, and I really would love to use it. But otherwise, I’m pretty excited for this!!
The common debate is that the bombs didn’t exactly force Japan to surrender, and that it was the threat of the imminent USSR participation in the war that did.
I believe the reason for this is that there are transcripts as well as timelines of the Japanese government’s upper echelons that sort of demonstrate the bombs didn’t have as big of an impact on them as a potential USSR participation.
But the whole thing is a bit hazy, and I have no doubts the bombs at the very least put a big amount of pressure on the Japanese government at the time.
Interestingly, some countries don’t hate Japan despite a pretty rough history with them. Taiwan, for example, is generally quite positive about Japan, and I’ve even met some elders who say Taiwan improved under the Japanese.
I’m not sure that’s completely true, but some people definitely believe it. I think Vietnam and Indonesia also have pretty positive relations with Japan. But China and Korea absolutely despise them, and I’m not sure about the Philippines, but they have enough reasons to hate them, too.
To be fair, if it truly were more convenient, countries like Japan, China, India or the Middle East that had no cultural reason to prefer one over the other, wouldn’t have chosen metric.
I don’t think Americans are either stupid or more inefficient for having the clearly more impractical system, but I can’t help feel that the only reason they’ve kept their very odd measuring system is that they will never recognize anything ever being better in other countries than it is in theirs.
In a way, the imperial stubbornness among Americans feels like yet another display of American exceptionalism and their odd superiority complex, than anything logical or even pragmatic.