Why not just use a different chat app? I have like 3 installed to accommodate people from different regions.

Edit. The very next reply answered this. Sorry.

By taking excellently processed photographs and sharing them on social media. At least that’s what I’d do!

Huh. When I communicate with Android friends, I just don’t use iMessage to make sure communication is solid. That’s an Apple problem as far as I’m concerned, but good on Android users for finding a way to make things a little nicer for Apple users I guess.

This Android app fixes those issues? That’s actually really impressive!

I’ve been using iOS for 15-20 years and have never heard anyone talk about bubbles. In fact, everyone I know has a 3rd party client installed to ensure chatting acrosd platforms is easy. If someone is giving you crap about the color of a bubble you don’t actually see on Android, they probably just don’t like you and are using the bubble as an excuse. They’re not worth your time. (Or they’re just joking around.)

It’s just strange to me that Android users have such a need to fix a thing that only apple users notice, and only Apple fanboys might actually care about.

Why do people care so much about the color of their bubbles?

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but it always seems to me that kids are living in a world where they need to as present in their digital realities as much, if not more than, their actual ones. At work it seems like they are trying to be in two places at once sometimes.

What’s a delicious Romanian dish that’s easy to make at home?

I really wish they and all other advertising companies would spend more time thinking about why people hate and go through so much effort to avoid ads, then innovate ways to address that problem rather than spending so many resources coming up with ways to force users to adhere to advertising they hate.

Okay, time give the phone back to your mommy.

Well on the flip side, if Google doesn’t mind paying that amount, Canada’s news industry just gets $74 million more every year than it usually does.

Well I usually don’t eat at McDonald’s, but I do settle for appetizers more often than I would like to.

I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to type all that up. I feel like I better understand your perspective, and I generally agree with it.

A business paying zero fees is not anticompetitive. One specific business paying zero fees when everyone else has to and doesn’t know about it is.

I actually sympathize. My wife and I are small, so when we eat out, it’s usually just an appetizer and a main dish that we share, and then we still need to ask for a box.

My friends love eating out with me because half of my food usually makes its way to their plate and sometimes they get to finish my beer.

Here’s a tip. Take those fries home and stick them in the fridge. Fry them up in an omelette later.

Bro.
How about giving people the option to pay less for smaller portions? Is that not allowed for some reason? I’m a small guy, and every restaurant I visit in the west pretty much charges me double and gives me twice as much food as I could possibly handle. It sucks when traveling, because I can’t exactly just take it home.

Just curious. Why do you think young men turn to violence when they feel like they’ve lost control of a situation? Do you think they do it because it’s just in their nature, or because many might have found themselves in situations where discussion gets ignored, pleading makes things worse, running inspires pursuit, and aggression made it all stop?

I’m not saying this to diminish the problem of domestic violence against women, or as an attempt to argue against any of the statistics. I just think angrily blaming men for violence rather than attempting to understand how such a problem manifests in the first place will not make anything safer for anyone.

(I hope I don’t regret jumping in on this discussion.)

On Kbin, communities are known as magazines. In the context of Flipboard, this actually kind of makes sense.

I’ve used Flipboard for a really long time. Not because I think it’s good or anything, but because I haven’t found anything that’s just so much better whenever I’ve looked. I particularly appreciate the widget on my Home Screen because it usually has at least one thing I’m inspired to read. I did install Feedly, but I don’t use that any more than Flipboard, and it seems to do the exact same thing.

If you or anyone else have recommendations to something tangibly better though, I’m all ears.

Is there a way to read without the invasive trackers? I’m fine with ads, just not the cookies.