Waterproofing hasn’t been relevant to batteries since they were made internal.

I just checked, and a replacement battery for my 2024 HMD Skyline goes for $15.62 plus another $3.25 for the consumable adhesive pad and whatever shipping ends up being [0]. In practice, you might also need to buy tools, which can further drive up the cost.

Finding that source took a bit of knowledge. If you go by what HMD tells it’s US users, you would look on iFixit, which would be $30 for an entire kit, which includes the battery, adhesive, and tools (Just the battery and adhesive would run you about $28).

[0] https://gsmnet.com/products/hmd-skyline-battery-hba4633aa-service-pack-hq71101001dt2?srsltid=AfmBOor1-PdyDMT6TX5X--CtmlTm60kOFti1fr5gGnjsOMCX3pOcKZlw

https://gsmnet.com/products/hmd-skyline-battery-adhesive-service-pack-hq25804001fj0?_pos=1&_sid=1311a3ad0&_ss=r

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/HMD_Skyline

I had a similar realization when studying undergrad linguistics.

One of the classes had us read Chomsky’s “Remarks on Nominalization” paper. The overwhelming sense I got from it was that the author did not understand X-Bar theory, despite knowing that Chomsky was the one who came up with it (and not realizing at the time that this paper was essentially Chomsky’s first paper on the subject).

I will also say that it is a credit to his writing that the paper still holds up pretty well; even if it spends an entire section coming up with bad answers to what was literally a syntax 201 homework assignment.

checks undetectable.ai

Of course their business model is an AI powered service to make your AI slop get classified as human by AI detectors.

This won’t fly with food. Companies are no longer allowed to use “may contain X” as a catchall. They now need to deliberately add X to their product.

https://snacksafely.com/2022/04/company-will-add-trace-amount-of-allergen-to-all-products-to-skirt-safety-regulation/

Federal employees are explicitly guaranteed their back pay.

Part of the problem behind the scenes is that the Democrats do not really trust guarantees passed into law anyone, as Trump has been utilizing the recision process to simply not pay money that Congress has explicitly appropriated into law.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/24

She did not distance herself from Biden on the subject. As the democratic nominee; heir to the Biden campaign; and then current VP in the Biden administration, this meant that her platform on Gaza defaulted to being the Biden policy.

I agree that I would rather be fighting a Harris administration over Gaza policy instead of a Trump administration. But running as a less bad version of the opposing party is not effective politics.

In that same vein, protesting a former VP from a party that is out of power is also not an effective form of activism.

I’d hardly call it a reveal. It was clear from her reaction in the lunch seen that she was appolled by what is happening in Gaza and offended at the notion that she has anything to do with it.

Not really. This episode didn’t really take any jabs at Netenyahu or Israel.

Sure, Sheila ended up criticizing him. And objectively made good points. But the show treated that as the punchline to turning her into the kvetching mother trope.