If you’re going to get about claiming to know how evolution works, at least know how evolution works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

$10 says that by 2040 Europe will institute massive concessions to Russia for helping deal with the Islamic Caliphate in Europe.

Which wouldn’t have happened if Europe had been paying more attention to stuff that mattered, and less on which charge port people had on their phones.

Godswallop! Aftermarket Lightning cables were readily available shortly after Apple first use the the port.

Agreed though, their own Apple branded cables that came with the device are terrible, and I always just threw them straight in the bin.

And connection cycles is the wrong metric for USB-C vs Lightning. The correct metric is how many and how much side-force removals can the port withstand.

My experience shows that for USB-C the answer is wildly insufficient whereas for Lightning it’s sufficiently high enough that it won’t be a concern.

I never had a Lightning port fail.

The EU could have made a different decision. Or not got itself involved.

These are all provable, proven facts.

Like yeah, Apple helped design the USB-C connector and preferred something else.

Thereby only reinforcing my point.

At least ICE car fires can be extinguished, and without special equipment.

Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames while you’re sitting in it waiting for it charge?

Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames after a relatively low speed impact and lock the occupants inside and immediately fill the cabin with fumes from a rapidly degradging lithium ion battery?

Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames taking down whole RORO car transport vessels at sea?

Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames in your garage at night and ignite your whole house, while you and your family are sleeping?

Written by the sub-sub-sub subcommittee…

Europe will fall to the Russians, if the Russians can ever find it under all the piles of disused regulations.

I think you mean thickness?

Extra width is sold as a feature.

I don’t understand the obsession with reducing thickness.

Why is a thinner phone more desirable than a thicken one?

So you agree that swappable batteries are superior.

I really appreciate it, keep up with the good work.

Bloody Clippers.

You always got to watch out for the Clippers, they’ll take whatever you say or write and clip it out of context and make it mean something completely different to what you really said.

The European Union will fall to Russia while they're looking for a USB-C charge cable that works, or looking for a charged swappable battery for their MANPADs.

You can’t have infinitely improving standards for an infinite time, otherwise you end up with bullshit like Dieselgate, and ecotechnocrats forcing everyone to drive around in mobile inextinguishable incendiary devices.

Consumers still need to buy replacement cables, because they break.

And the USB-C cable end connector is a fragile piece of shit designed by committee and forced upon everyone buy another committee, neither of which must’ve had a single mechanic engineer even once walk passed their bike shed.

Future historians will do a postmortem on the EU and discover the USB-C enforcement act as an inflection point that marked the downer trend to the EU’s eventual collapse, and the reclamation of its land and people to the great nation of Russia, where it always belonged.

Or some other equally as dreadful outcome befitting the UBS-C Bike Shed & Enforcement Committee formerly know as the European Union.

If it contains the entire corpus of recorded human knowledge…

And most of everything is shit…

Every time you recall a memory it is modified, every time you verbalise a memory it is modified even more so.

Eye-witness accounts are notoriously unreliable, people who witness the same events can have shockingly differing versions.

Memories are modified when new information, real or fabricated, is added.

It’s entirely possible to convince people to recall events that never occurred.

Which of your memories are you certain are of real occurrences, or memories of dreams?