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revfds t1_j2abq3u wrote

Reply to TIL Mountain Gorillas almost never drink water. They get their hydration from from their plant diet and morning dew. Despite living in rainforests, they also tend to dislike rain and try to not get wet when crossing a stream. They have never been observed drinking water in the wild before 2013 by Ainsley-Sorsby

Wildcats also get most of their water from the meat they eat. Providing water dishes for your house cats is really only necessary because we feed them such strong diets of dry food. Delta why you should feed your cats wet food, preventing a lot of kidney diseases from a life of being under hydrated

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revfds t1_iy6zvu2 wrote

Reply to comment by puttinonthefoil in TIL about the TwitterPeek, a Twitter-only mobile device introduced in 2009 that allowed users to send and receive tweets...and nothing else by wilymon

Oh for sure, I wasn't saying you weren't, or disagreeing with you, just discussing. It must have been some other so then Spotify, I personally used a phone with an SD card, I've never done streaming music, so I'm only recalling what I saw others do.

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revfds t1_iy6zb48 wrote

Reply to comment by puttinonthefoil in TIL about the TwitterPeek, a Twitter-only mobile device introduced in 2009 that allowed users to send and receive tweets...and nothing else by wilymon

Yes, storage was much less, 4-16gb if I recall, but Pandora, Spotify, etc were things, and the ipods were basically iPhones that couldn't make calls.

I suppose beepers would be more analogous, as older people still had those despite having cell phones, but I think my point still stands, that people were willing to have multiple devices on them.

Also consider bandwidth. American telecommunications have always been stingy with bandwidth.

I'm not saying I wouldn't have thought it was dumb at the time, but this came at the end of a time where these things had some moderate success. It was considered that we would all have multiple devices, not one that did everything.

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revfds t1_iy6wyvd wrote

Reply to comment by TheRealEvanG in TIL about the TwitterPeek, a Twitter-only mobile device introduced in 2009 that allowed users to send and receive tweets...and nothing else by wilymon

That was still in the era where people didn't mind having multiple "one use" devices. Mostly older people then young people, so I'm guessing this was more of a product to try and drive 35+ yr old people to Twitter. Though even in 2009 I knew teenagers that had both an iPhone and ipod, or other equivalents, so it's not totally dumb for them to think it could have succeeded.

The plot for the first fast and the furious movie was to steal a semi full of DVD players because that was a believable way to get a lot of money.

It was a different time.

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