Violence begets violence & usually just results in mutually assured destruction if the overall balance of strengths is relatively similar (they have money, military, & now hired thugs, we mostly just have numbers and decentralization).

I recommend subterfuge and sabotage instead - particularly by those programming & managing all the computers that make everything happen nowadays.

a.k.a. “business as usual” when the government that’s supposed to be policing such behavior had become primarily focused upon doing it themselves.

Those who make for the best leaders very rarely want to be leaders.

If I knew about that beforehand, I’d probably be much less likely turn it on to begin with. If I learned the hard way, I’d likely be dissuaded from ever trying it again & just get one of those other apps. Conversely, the fact that my current phone boots much faster than older ones did makes it not really as off-putting an issue at it once was. It sounds like a major PITA until you realize that.

What happens when it’s no longer profitable enough to make manufacturing film worthwhile? In recent years LOTS of companies have been moving towards focusing strictly on their most profitable items only - dropping things that were still profitable, but not enough to please their major shareholders who only care about profits being as high as they possibly can be.

You have control over it so it’ll soon be just like all the other pre-installed crap that you never use, but still eats up limited storage space.

With the addition, Google isn’t only thinking of users’ well-being, of course.

It’s reacting to increasing regulatory pressure around social media harms and algorithmic dangers. Today, many countries and U.S. states have created laws to restrict or ban minors from using social media, as the impacts of these apps on young people’s mental well-being have become better understood.

Google can now point to a feature like Pause Point to claim it’s part of the solution, not the problem.

Ahhh - there it is.

The thing that is much more concerning to me, tho: if this is pre-installed as a standard part of Android, then it could potentially be abused by work, carriers, governments, malware, etc. to control what you can and can’t easily do.

Please do (even though I personally don’t use those apps). Including imposing more of the incredibly large fines the EU has become known for, and applying the bulk of them towards mental health services & initiatives. It’s long past time those companies were held responsible for what they’ve done to rake in such insane profits.

If you’re relying on AI, well then…

(Yes, I know they can have their uses if done properly, but for too many that’s a HUGE “if”.)

Did you get too close to a 5G tower?

If anyone is still invested in Tesla at this point, they deserve to lose their shi®t.

Now if they’re newly invested, that may be another story entirely. Assuming the battery & solar biz doesn’t get spun off.

Tried Blorp a while back, but didn’t like it - don’t remember why. Will try Summit - thx for the recommendation!

(I’m not OP) Okay - not confusing, but annoying AF. In Thunder at least, “undetermined” is an option for filtering posts that you see, but it often switches to that by itself when making an edit & when that’s selected upon submitting an edit it complains that language isn’t allowed - yet it’ll accept the separate “no language” option. WTF?

Dunno what client you’re using, but yeah. When using Thunder, it for some reason frequently switches to “Undetermined” whenever I edit a comment. When I try to submit that edit with that language choice, I get a “language not allowed” error & have to change it to “no language” to get it to work. Kinda bizarre.

I’d have switched to Voyager by now if it didn’t have the incredibly annoying fault whereby if you accidentally open the left panel that lets you choose your feed or a specific community, then you cannot just close it again - you are FORCED to make a selection that then reloads your feed & you lose your place in what you were scrolling through already. I’ve complained about it, but they don’t seem to care.

Will Friedle (the older brother) has done a LOT of good voice acting, including some of my faves like Batman Beyond, Kim Possible, and Star Lord in the animated series version of Guardians of the Galaxy.

He’ll never accept anything that allows the media to go back to focusing on the Epstein files.

That’s excessive. There’s just not that much drift in accuracy in the space of a week. Monthly would be enough.

Sure. If we had a properly functioning justice system. We no longer do.

C’est la vie.

It’s definitely meant for their Enterprise customers.

It’s not just anti-competition, but anti-privacy - Google will know exactly who is going to what sites, regardless of your browser.