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I listened for a long time but eventually moved on. They're still around though. They found out about John during a recording of one of the shows: https://youtu.be/fcvPifFSUL0?si=XC-0V75agqjoUSP7&t=1950

I remember him from listening to TWiT in the 00's/10's so I'm out of the loop. Who's the paranoid crackpot?

The only friction here is 'you're not allowed to do that' - which doesn't typically work on teenagers. We had the same rules for dumbbphones and iPod's 20 years ago and it didn't work then.

How is this effective at all? Every kid will continue to use them surreptitiously, as they always have.

I've never had to do this for a visa for countries that required one. It was all online.

> Really, now? What national news do you watch? I have literally never seen current/breaking news stories about the death of American troops in action.

It happened about three days ago. I'm not even in the US and it was a top headline here.

You'll catch people blaming their heart attacks and strokes on immigration before long.

It's basically a freelancer website at this point. The original concept is long dead.

I recently started buying CD's again (also have bought vinyl for a couple of decades now). Something it made me realise is that we've lost the 'gift' of music. Giving/receiving CD's as gifts was always a joy. Copying CD's for friends too if you thought they might like it. With streaming we've completely lost this and are unlikely to get it back.

You can find someone on Fiverr that’ll do a better job than this for $100. The concept will be completely different but it’ll be much better.

I don't think that's true. People had been amassing CD collections for a decade or two by that point. At the original '1000' songs you're talking around 80 albums which isn't a lot.

> I agree that if we care about the environment then we should at least try to travel less, or less far.

I disagree. Regular people have already made plenty of sacrifices. We should continue enjoying our lives so long as billionaires utilise their private jets, governments wage wars, and citizens in countries like the US continue to consume exponentially more resources than everywhere else.

I think it was much more popular before budget airlines became so big in Europe. When you can fly to most European cities for < €50 at anytime of the year taking lots of weekend breaks is affordable even for students.

And this is exactly why we don't need internet on planes.

> Social media, even before the era of dark patterns and 'engagement' maximization was still extremely addictive.

I disagree. When you only saw what you followed you ran out of 'content' regularly. For example, it was a common feature on Twitter clients to maintain your scroll position in your feed because keeping up to date with it and reading it in its entirety was the norm. Same goes for Facebook. Your friends only posted so much content. The 'addictive' aspect was you had to check regularly to see if there was new content. That is very very different from endless feeds full of content that is forced in front of you by the algorithm,

By that logic they don’t need to learn much at all. They can just ask AI.

It seems like Apple put a big focus on 'kids mode' things this WWDC. To the point they dedicated a major section of the keynote to it. Hopefully a part of that will be focussed on the workarounds.

I'm surprised any company allows work to be done over employees personal apps/devices/numbers. If a colleague/boss contacted me about work via my personal number they'd be quickly told to never do it again.

I'm sure if you were one of those 12k your loved ones wouldn't be saying "what's 12k in a country of 350m?".

> for the anxiety crowd: don't buy street weed and avoid sativas

I don't think blanket advice like this is helpful. For me indicas increase my anxiety significantly while sativas do the opposite.

Yeah I think for any of the significant pot smokers I've known it's a way of avoiding other issues. As a positive it's probably much better they descend into pot than alcohol which I'm sure many would if it was the only other easy coping mechanism.

Doesn't this apply to colds and flus too?

Good point!

Instagram Reels is just a TikTok rip off. It's not 'new'.

AGI isn't necessary to completely change things. The change that's occurred in the last 6 months alone is massive. Another couple of big steps like the end of last year and the world is unrecognisable from even a few years ago.

Thank you for being one of the few to actually read the question :)

Which, as I said, they bought. And then they ripped off the biggest feature. Most of the genuinely 'new' things they've tried with Instagram have failed.

Other than the original few years of Facebook has Zuck actually succeeded at anything new? Metaverse was a failure. Instagram and WhatsApp were both bought and Instagram's biggest feature is a straight rip from Snapchat. Occulus was bought. Facebook itself is completely dead among all my peers and even the local business stuff I used to do on it is dead now too. It feels like he just falls from one mistake into another but gets away with it due to the company being a behemoth + his unique control of the company keeping him unaccountable.

There are helpful use cases that aren't parasitic. I use it if I want to buy a bunch of clothes in multiple sizes. I return what I don't need and don't need to splurge up front. The people who get into debt for unnecessary stuff they can't afford will find other ways anyway.

Yes, something very wrong in the EU compared to the land of HOA's...