a noteworthy lack of Q3 data.
Of course! If Q3 numbers were good, there would not be such a rush to IPO now, and instead they could wait a week. The numbers must be more miserable than people expect, even when they take this implication into account.
Edit: I'll eat my words on this. I was wrong.
ace
8d ago
So your solution to the marriage crisis is to ... incentivize people to not get married? May want to take this idea back to the drawing board.
ace
14d ago
I never used any other android, so I can't really compare. I don't have any usability issues, but a group chat I'm a member of had to move to a different service because I couldn't receive RCS messages. MMS is fine. You'll have to decide how much Google (in the form of Google Play Services) to allow into your life. If the answer is none, then some apps won't install or work.
I use NixOS, but it's a bad choice for a beginner to Linux. Any other distro will serve you well.
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14d ago
I made the switch to GrapheneOS and a telemetry-free Linux distro a few years ago for related reasons. I believe that ads are active attack on my mind, stealing my attention in order to change my buying habits, opinions, world-view, and emotional regulation in ways that are contrary to my own interests and in the interests of the highest bidder. Besides that, it corrupts the service that displays the advertisements, incentivizing them to keep your eyes there longer to increase ad impressions, usually to your detriment.
To Hell with all of them! I refuse to use any product that serves me ads, and I shield my family from the same. I am at the point where I am extremely hesitant to buy any product that uses closed source software, closed standards, or requires Internet connectivity to do a job that does not inherently require it. I've seen too many times the ratchet of enshittification slowly boil our collective frog. So, yea, I'm a bit of a zealot on this.
How's it working out? Pretty great to be honest. My banking app works with GrapheneOS. (Though it didn't when I got it; I wrote to them complaining about it and later it did work. I don't know if my complaining did anything.) I can't imagine going back to the advertising and digital restrictions management hellscape I see other people put up with.
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17d ago
You're both right. Almost all rape allegations are true. But the ones that filter up to make the national media spotlight are mostly false, or at least complicated. From the holy texts: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
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20d ago
Because these are not government organizations? You can make a girls-only club. You can make an all genders club. If you want an all-boys club, you can make that too.
ace
29d ago
Got it. I had no idea anybody intentionally used strangulation, and when it did occur I thought it was only due to a miscalculation or other incompetence.
ace
29d ago
You and others in the thread have implied that hangings are inhumane. Could I ask why? Assuming it's not botched, it seems second only to explosively disassembling the brain in terms of no time to suffer. In particular, more humane than firing squad, where you get a few shots to the body and several seconds of pain while the brain loses consciousness from blood loss.
ace
1mo ago
I would also like to breathe that air. What reason do we have to believe that this is safe given the tremendous record of health disasters that are only recognized decades after the fact? Sounds like a high-risk solution.
ace
1mo ago
If you optimize for what's best for the kid rather than what's convenient for the parents, it's no screens in the same room for young children. I don't think the data on it is incontrovertible, but it is pretty compelling. The AAP recommends absolutely zero screen time under under 2 year olds. I walked the walk on this with my own kids, literally never letting them lay eyes on a turned on screen. I was prepared to let them watch educational-type shows when they turned 2, but looking at their behavior at around 2 years old, I realized I would have to sacrifice some other form of play to make time for it, and it never made sense in terms of what was best for them, so my kids never saw a screen until they entered the public school system.
You draw your line wherever you want, but I would personally be mortified to model playing video games to my kids.
ace
1mo ago
His take is consistent and unrelenting atheism, and he criticizes Christians and Muslims alike, which these days makes him homeless, politically. I've listened to a lot of him and there's a lot of criticism of Islam and Islamic terrorists, I don't remember anything specifically Zionist. Do you have a reference?
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1mo ago
I had the same reaction. I thought it was a faked-up overdone reenactment and it was quickly out of my mind. A little later someone pointed out that it was actually a real interview with Holmes (her look has changed a lot), and it instantly turned it into a must watch for me.
ace
5mo ago
Reported for violating rule:
Proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be.
Why should I believe in God? Why should I believe in Hell? Why should I believe in an eternal soul that outlives my body? Why should I believe anything written in the Bible? Why should I believe anything a bunch of ignorant dead men said?
ace
6mo ago
Cutting off the bottom 40% of the distribution and then finding that the remaining 60% is average-to-above-average is a thoroughly underwhelming statistical finding. Autists have pretty specific deficits in understanding people, and if that's not measured in IQ, so much the worse for IQ.
ace
6mo ago
the ballroom would not be completed by the time he leaves office anyway.
From your lips to God's ears.
ace
6mo ago
The good news is that this actually most works anyway because there just aren't very many determined attackers.
Absolutely. The same person who has the competency, drive, and intelligence to think through new angles of attack and succeed are also successful at finding better uses for their life.
ace
6mo ago
In one of his interviews, his primary complaint was that individual lone-wolf acts of violence are not sufficient to stop AI development and would have a tendency to sway public opinion in the opposite direction, as these things do. But his opposition is only because of ineffectiveness. He's very publicly in favor of an international alliance of USA, EU, Russia, and China firebombing rogue data centers.
It's not a great analogy because copyright infringement (what you've been psyoped into calling piracy and theft) does not deprive anyone else of the good.
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