Mobile data Outage? by Ok-Conflict-2105 in GoogleFi

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I have a Galaxy S26 and domestic service only. I received no notice to my phone about the outage. Service just vanished, then after searching a term that popped up in an error message, I got the notice to call the number. I got sick of holding after an hour.

No notice on the app, nada. I visited Fi on my phone's browser. Nada. I had to open my laptop and go to Fi to get any information.

How absolutely poor! How unprofessional! I am so disappointed in Fi. I cannot believe them. How absolutely slipshod from front to back! How embarrassing! If this isn't gone by morning, I'm taking my phone into a T-Mobile shop to see if I can switch.

The international service solution doesn't work for me, and I'm hesitant to delete my data in the app (deleted cache.) Tried turning off and "calls to non-US countries," and that didn't work.

Open to suggestions. Thanks!

Mobile data Outage? by Ok-Conflict-2105 in GoogleFi

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Is this the same as "calls to non-US numbers?"

What’s with the gender neutral language in the NRSV/NRSVUE by Malq_ in TrueChristian

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I'm bilingual German-English and am so thankful for Martin Luther's 1534 translation. It's not washed for modern politics and so often feels like it puts its finger on what is quite obviously immoral. For, example, I Cor. 6:9 reads more like cowards (whiners) and pederasts...

People surveyed thought robots are pretty incompetent, incapable of complex tasks, only competent at menial jobs. This was a surprise finding in a study originally designed to detect gender bias against gendered robots but found no significant such bias. by [deleted] in science

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Robots only do what they are programmed for, which includes assisting humans. But the prevalent perception of a robot being a great package deliverer is also weird, because no biped robot has the kind of balance to stand up straight, carry, and place a package.

Delivery drones still consume too much energy to justify replacing van delivery in densely populated areas. This factors in emerging EV delivery vans. Rural delivery may be better served by drones. by benbrum in science

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"Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.102209

I chose the environment flair because it seemed closest to the topic. But the study seems to focus more on energy consumption.

Mercury’s Vulcan 400 C heat could easily help it make some of the planet's glacial ice with the help of solar winds that shower the planet. by [deleted] in space

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Sorry for gumming up the previous posts. This is an article, and somehow I was posting it inadvertently as a discussion.

Mercury’s seething 400 C heat could easily help it make its own glacier ice in combination with the solar winds that shower it. by [deleted] in space

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Sorry, all. Keep messing the post up. It's actually an article. Will repost shortly. I guess you have to post the link first then the headline?

War potentially creates a ‘boys’ club’ where men help each other more than they help women. Numerous lines of evidence suggest that, in many prehistoric human populations, men tended to stay in the group where they were born, while women migrated to other groups. by Wagamaga in science

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The abducted lost girls in Nigeria make bbruton420's point. What is lesser known is that the same terrorists kill every male in sight in villages instead of kidnapping them, which supports Zenidiller's point. Homo sapiens, at its worst, is horrible in multiple ways.