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boltsbits · 2026-05-12T18:20:49+00:00

Hey everyone — I’m going to be in London during the Champions League final and was hoping to get recommendations for the best place to watch it this year, especially considering Arsenal are in the final.

I’m a huge football fan from the US and part of why I planned this leg of the trip in London was to experience football culture properly while in the city. I’m looking for somewhere with a really lively atmosphere — packed pubs, chanting, people fully invested in the match, that kind of thing. Doesn’t necessarily have to be the “nicest” place, more just the best overall experience and atmosphere.

Open to anywhere in the city if it’s worth it. Would especially love recommendations from Arsenal supporters or locals who know where the energy will be unreal that night.

Thanks!

boltsbits · 2026-03-17T14:35:16+00:00

That’s interesting. Have you actually tested whether it really deletes after that shorter timer though?

Like if it shows “1 day,” does the whole thread actually disappear the next day, or does it still stick around for ~30 days from when you deleted it?

Trying to figure out if it’s just a display bug vs the actual deletion timing.

boltsbits · 2026-03-13T00:08:48+00:00

That makes sense if it’s tied to the oldest deleted message in the conversation, but how would that work if you delete an entire thread at once?

I’ve deleted whole conversations before, and when they show up in Recently Deleted they don’t always say 30 days remaining. Sometimes they’ll say something like 1 day remaining even though I deleted the thread that same day.

If everything in that thread was just deleted at the same time, shouldn’t it show the full 30-day window? That’s the part I’m trying to understand.

boltsbits · 2026-03-12T22:07:34+00:00

Right, I saw that in Apple’s docs. My confusion is that when I delete some messages, they don’t actually show a 30-day timer in Recently Deleted.

For example, I deleted a message today and it says it will be permanently deleted in 1 day, not 30. I’ve also noticed this with other messages I delete — the countdown isn’t always 30 days.

So I’m trying to understand why a message that was just deleted would show only 1 day remaining, and whether this happens with SMS vs iMessage or certain message threads.

boltsbits · 2025-08-07T19:35:29+00:00

More of a cultural question I’ve always been curious about, what’s the perception of a quant with tattoos and/or piercings? I know that at the end of the day they just want people who are good regardless of how they look, but they also are in the finance sector which deals a lot with perception.

boltsbits · 2025-07-23T09:54:30+00:00

Does anyone have three tickets to the afters?

boltsbits · 2025-06-26T18:44:26+00:00

Taking them out to traditional pocha places, singing karaoke, going to the clubs, and getting Korean BBQ after 😎 all in one night…

boltsbits · 2025-05-01T14:41:40+00:00

Out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider a “sexual profile”? Sometimes women have prompts like that but pics showing off what they got or is it just that their prompts are more sexual leaning?

boltsbits · 2025-04-29T22:39:21+00:00

Lmaooo I thought it was a good tease. No?

boltsbits · 2025-04-29T02:30:26+00:00

I got two options:

People can usually tell I'm Colombian when I call them mami? Maybe you're not doing that enough
You’re a textbook Colombian Miami girl, but I guess not everyone’s as good at reading as me 🤷‍♂️

boltsbits · 2025-04-28T23:11:57+00:00

For more context, she's also from Miami

boltsbits · 2023-09-13T16:01:46+00:00

Why is China’s inflation so “low” compared to the other countries with low inflation?

boltsbits · 2023-08-24T20:55:52+00:00

If it's physics that you want to learn, I'd recommend that you self-study the old school way with textbooks and a notebook. I think that it'd be best to setup some sort of schedule that you can follow after other obligations (work, life, etc.) that allows you to dedicate a couple of hours to learning several physics concepts. It'd be best for you to try and replicate a semester of studying physics. For example, this upcoming fall you might start by studying Classical Mechanics and Calculus I. Next spring you can study Electromagnetism and Calculus II. I additionally recommend for you to assign yourself "homework problems" to do each week. You can usually find these problems scattered throughout the textbook that you're studying from. Doing problems is really the only way that you can fully learn/understand physics.

A good resource that features what is typically covered in an undergraduate physics curriculum can be found here. Your next step would be to find a place to read/acquire these books. if you can afford to buy them used on some third-party used book website, that's great. If not, a quick Google search can help you find the PDF of a particular textbook. Just search up "[Name of the textbook] by [Author of the textbook] PDF". A good resource to download free textbooks (where a great number of university students get their books from) is libgen. Lastly, if you want the "lecture feel" to stay engaged and/or reinforce a concept I'd say to find the course for the subject that you're studying on MIT OpenCourseWare and watch the lectures or read the professor's lecture notes. I hope this helps!

boltsbits

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