This looks shopped.

I can tell by the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my days.

Weighted blankets are used for a number of health reasons.

People who have a lot of stress or struggle falling asleep at night benefit from them as well.

Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone's hardware.

That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren't just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

And then they went from "should not even be working" test units to fully functional production units in six months!

Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.

Beans (Japanese sweets)

That's not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

'Microsoft, the company that allowed the app to bypass its gatekeepers, was surprised by getting caught in the act and now promises to come up with an excuse that shifts the blame away from them as soon as possible.'

When it interferes with the bottom line.

I have a family, a job I love, and I still play video games.

Believe in yourself.

That feel when you're the only moderator left on a site that hasn't seen its owner in years.

That chip has enough spice to BUY a 14th-century peasant.

X (twitter): "Oh shit, most of our users are bots."

Mastodon: "Oh shit, we have a bunch of extra users."

We've had 1st-factor authentication, but what about 2nd-factor?