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I don't buy a new phone more often than probably one every five or six, so I don't really mind buying an expensive flagship.

The problem tends to be though that people buy an expensive phone and then later have financial difficulties. And people criticise them for having an expensive phone as if they could have known that that would be an issue a year or so down the line.

I can't get over the American obsession with labelling liquids in Oz, what is that?

How can the Wikipedia article not have a translation and yet make multiple references to the fact that translations exist.

I tried asking a geologist this question once and just got a funny look.

But let's say for the sake of arguement that dinosaurs did have a civilisation, if that civilisation was on the level of mediaeval technology then would there be any evidence after millennia and an asteroid impact? If we're talking about houses made of wood and roads made of cobblestone and no refined metals, would we be able to tell?

There's an idea that they may have been prior civilisations but they will wiped out and never left any evidence. It would certainly explain why humans are so much more intelligent than the rest of the animals. We aren't actually special at all, we are just the latest iteration of biological inevitability.

From the last dinosaurs to the first humans was 66 million years, it wasn't that fast.

What is weird is that humans are so intelligent. It's much easier to evolve big teeth and ripping claws to make you the dominant species then it is to evolve a highly complex brain.

It can't have been the extinction of the dinosaurs that had that impetus because by the time the first proto humans were around any effects of the asteroid impact would have long since dissipated. So there must have been some other threat that arose that was dangerous enough to require us to evolve to survive it, but was slow burning enough that it gave time for that evolution to happen. It also left no evidence.

You can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that.

People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.

We'll have to wait and see what they're availability is like and if they offer bulk ordering but I'd be very interested to use these as our work phones. Currently we use iPhones and I've never been happy with that decision.

Probably a purist complaining it's not the fabled mythical Linux phone.

It literally has every feature of a modern smartphone. And it's not even that expensive.

If I had a need for a new phone right now I'd be buying this.

What are you using right now because every Linux phone I've ever seen has been an unfinished working program that isn't commercially ready.

It has a headphone jack? They must lack courage.

Have you tried being rich? I highly recommend it.