On Linux at least low enough power chargers will get rejected and won’t do anything. Idk what the cutoff is but USB a phone chargers won’t work.

Nib sizes generally come in extra fine (XF on the nib), fine (F), medium (M), and broad (B), though some brands produce other nibs

What you’re describing definitely sounds like a fountain pen–specifically, an eyedropper (where the body acts as the ink reservoir), desk (long, gently sloping body coming to a point) pen–did it look something like this? https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-5ko0zosub2/product_images/description/sheaffer/sh_deskpen_greymarble_2.jpg (Sorry, can’t get images to embed)

For your thinish line requirements with a non-scratchy nib, I’d suggest a European/American fine or Japanese medium nib size (Japanese brands tend to run thinner). Most pens you can buy have some sort of cartridge, as well as a converter that would allow you to use a bottle–you can also get a cheap blunt tipped syringe or pipet and refill washed cartridges with whatever ink you want. I use a hot glue gun to reseal mine for transport, and peel it off before reinserting the cartridge.

I would recommend going to a stationary store/office supply store and trying some out! If you give us a general geographic area we can try to recommend stores near you that cary pens you could try–in Europe I’ve found this much more common than the US. If in-person testing isn’t an option, I would tentatively suggest a pilot kakuno–they look like they cost ~11€ in Europe, and come with one cartridge of ink. They’re Japanese so I would recommend a medium if you want to avoid scratchy at all costs, or a fine if you have some tolerance for a bit of feedback and want a thinner line. Any of pilot’s converters should work, looks like they cost ~6-12€ depending on refill mechanism and capacity.

A kakuno or other budget pen won’t look as amazing, but in my experience write almost as well as pens costing 10x more, and honestly if it’s your first one you probably won’t be able to feel the nuance yet.

Look, I’m with you most of the way in theory, but a lot of rural areas don’t have plumbing and drinking water from public utilities, they have their own septic and water wells. I know it’s pedantic but a lot of parts of the world are so rural that it probably doesn’t make sense to have fully public transport, like it doesn’t make sense to have centralized water. The scope needs to be great systems within towns and cities and lots of park and ride hubs around the perimeter

Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?

Yeah, if she was a mother of 1 or 2 maybe, but feeding 10+ people it makes tons of sense!

This specific thread is responding to this comment, not the original article:

They should even go further and require to move other passengers if neccessary, so that the families can sit together always, no matter what.

Which is maybe why there’s a big disconnect between you and all the comments you’re replying to

As long as it can’t be mistaken for the actual person it moves the stigma from them doing weird things to the artist doing weird things

I’ve definitely seen similar things but with motorcycles! If you search ‘motorcyle camper’ there are lots of results

I used reddit on a mobile browser. At some point they completely blocked that and made it app-only on mobile, and I started looking for an exit. When the API bullshit happened shortly after I found one and took it

I don’t buy it, tbh. I’ve been hearing some variant of “Tesla isn’t growing more and the stock is overvalued” or in the last five years “Musk is an idiot and is going to tank the stock” since I started paying attention to the markets circa 2012. Musk is a fascist piece of shit, but he does have some quality–and it may just be having more money than God and thus having a sort of wealth inertia–that keeps the stock merrily tripping its way upwards. I bought three shares several years ago on a whim, and between the upward growth and the stock splits I’ve sold my initial investment amount 3x already and could sell it three more times today and still have Tesla stock leftover

I’ve been on the pixel A train the past few years, and wait until they offer me >$300 for a trade in. I got a 3A for I think ~$300 or so in 2020, and a 6A for $150 in 2022. Almost jumped to an 8a which would have been like $200 I think but there’s no reason to really besides shiny new toy so I’m holding out for another year or two in hopes a 4a-style size reduction comes again

It’s definitely not a perfect system and you’re absolutely right that it significantly favors people with strong support and safety nets, especially those of a financial nature.

That being said it’s a very easy shorthand for a company to take and is reliable enough to keep using it, just like how financial institutions in the US use SSNs as private identifiers because it’s easier and cheaper than running and supporting their own systems/assessments and mostly works well enough

The other factor not yet mentioned is charging time/range. There are EVs with more range, and EVs with faster charging times, and EVs that are cheaper, but there are no EVs with a comparable long-range driving ability as Teslas for less money. The Hyundai ioniq 6 is comparable now but it’s new, untested, and doesn’t really have a used market

Depending on what you’re trying to avoid, even 18 year old cars had OnStar gps that could in theory always track you unfortunately

I mean you don’t need to buy at every level, and a lot of it is shared, e.g. the smart casual and business casual blazers can be the same one

Each one is a slight upgrade in formality of the previous one, so yes there is a lot of near-overlap

In fairness a lot of people have office jobs with the possibility to be let go if they don’t meet dress code

While true, getting a larger percent of the populace to realize that and prioritize it is necessary in order to eat them

Sure, but so do a lot of other things that aren’t as costly. If NFTs were the first secure way to authenticate things online we wouldn’t have had online banking until very recently