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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get unblockable pop-ups from my carrier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s at least partly a holdover from the GSM/2G days, and it serves almost no purpose for end users because every carrier just uses it to try and sell you things you don’t want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get unblockable pop-ups from my carrier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It is possible to disable the SIM Toolkit app if you know how to use ADB, at least on some devices. There’s a few guides around for it, including this one: https://rudymartin.removed/2025/07/disabling-annoying-sim-toolkit-pop-ups.html

  It’s worth noting that disabling it doesn’t really cause issues in most cases, since the actual chip functionality is handled by other programs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Both jus soli (citizenship by birth) and jus sanguinis (citizenship by blood) exist more for historical reasons than because one is better than the other. Both are simply a way to try and make citizenship a more clear-cut thing, because it’s as close to being a made-up thing as you can get, especially in cases such as parents having a different nationality to the child (which is even more confusing when both parents are of different nationalities).

  Jus soli is more common in the Americas due to various factors, including an incentive towards immigration from richer countries during colonial times and the various movements towards emancipation of the enslaved peoples a few centuries later, but the fact remains that neither system is any more arbitrary than the other. Jus soli is often favored because it simplifies things like immigration and asylum seeking and reduces statelessness, which is still a significant issue that affects millions of people worldwide, mostly around war-torn areas.

  As mentioned in another response, enfranchisement is also a very important issue that jus soli resolves, although a significant part of it is also due to other, unrelated citizenship laws that may not necessarily conflict with jus sanguinis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Divine Dick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole capitalization of pronouns thing was pretty much entirely made up around the 19th century anyway (as well as the capitalizing the word “Lord”, which the King James version invented outright), so you can argue that protestant churches are following a woke plot to change the pronouns of the christian god as well.