That these elements are a greater cause of societal problems today than people living longer.

If anything, living longer will give people better perspective.

Source: At 30 I had a much more nuanced perspective of just about anything than I did at 20. And I bet most people would say the same. Partly just from experience, but also because I was able to read a lot more about any subject, such as things like Studs Terkel’s “Hard Times”, or understand the complexities of WWII better, and how today is very much a result of it.

And I’ve read even more since then. By now I’ve spent more time reading than I had the hours to read, let alone the background, at age 20.

I dunno, I’d say people do things like coke, cheat, etc, because of beliefs.

They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

But yea, our beliefs, our paradigms, are what help us be better people to each other.

Hell, science is founded on the belief that the universe is rational, that “God does not play dice with the universe”.

Studying quantum mechanics makes me wonder otherwise. Nothing about it is rational. Not to say I don’t operate on a day-to-day basis that the underlying framework makes sense, what other choice do we have?

You brought religion into this, and your sophist insults.

Sounds like someone has a belief and is upset it’s being exposed.

Defensive? Now who’s stooping to insults because someone doesn’t believe in your belief?

Well, they are.

They define one’s view of the world, your paradigm.

It’s not Apple hate, it’s finding ways to penalize companies that are meaningful.

By tying the penalty to global revenues, Apple can’t simply move their revenue to somewhere else, like they did 20 years ago by going to Ireland.

See the story of Google being fined $500 million… How fast do they recoup that? Minutes or seconds?

5% daily, of global revenue.

Now that’s how penalties should work.

Have you read your reply to OP?

It’s a bunch of circular repetitive answers that simply re-iterate what OP has already said.

So it sounds like an LLM response.

Have you tried Open Camera?

Has tons of adjustability.

What?

These kinds of questions are meaningless.

Unless you meant it rhetorically.

Yea, always keep spares of caps

Usually I’d agree it’s an asshole thing to do, but sounds like OP’s ex was clear they “didn’t want to talk 24/7”.

There’s probably more to this story.

Funny anecdote: I’ve had more luck getting dates from World of Warcraft.

Because common interest, and engagement without an agenda.

Yea, I wouldn’t expect to be able to kill either of those - they’re kind of necessary for the system.

Something is requesting activity from them. When did this start? Is the timing related to a new app or a change in the system?

There are small filters that hang hoses over the side.

You’ll spend more running the filter, treating the water (and testing it) than simply replacing it.

From my own pool experience the smaller the volume, the harder it is to keep balanced. Even a 12’ pool can be a challenge.

To be fair, I’d be addicted to fixing cataracts, but only twice. 😆

Just get a new screen kit online. For most phones, they’re fairly reasonably priced. (But not Pixel, not even a 5 from 2020).

After heating it with a lighter. 😆

Dang, you had a III?

I got to work on one, eventually, at school. 64k of ram, baby!

No kidding? I don’t recall that.

First I read was in Windows NT mag about 1999,they had a working prototype, but without a touch screen.

Of course it wasn’t called Android, yet.