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Funny enough, if somebody offers you insurance that builds cash value, even though the sound of it does make sense you should probably run.

These companies and their enshittification have kinda killed the broader concept of phones in my mind.

What is my phone? It's my worst computer, proprietary and closed, and which I have been actively avoiding using all year long in order to improve my mental health. It's a tool that makes it easier to exist in modern society, not something that enhances my quality of life.

So I'm not thinking about whether I need iMessage vs Android openness like I might have a decade ago. I'm sitting here wondering if I even need a phone number in the first place! But, even with some wonderful Linux phone device that's like a 6" laptop with a touch screen and LTE/5G, I guess you'd still just have a number associated with your service.

While I do not prefer either of them to an open platform, I think the more common draw of iOS is that you know what you're getting versus the bait and switch that Google always seems to bring.

This effect can be really messed up once you have a kid and they get to the ages where you can remember childhood memories.

Things that took FOR FUCKING EVER as a kid just zip past in the blink of an eye when I'm the parent instead of the child.

The definitely sounds like something to try. Thanks!

The real depressing message is always... 🤢... in the comments.

There, I made myself say it. I apologize if I gave anybody flashbacks to any older, worse social link aggregator platforms.

There are great discussions here.

The problem is that we have too few users, so most topics you'd want to discuss aren't going to have existing thriving communities to chat with you. All of Lemmy put together is dwarfed by single reddit communities. for niche topics.

I'm not complaining, because the barriers to entry and lack of popular awareness keeps the user base here smarter and more interesting to talk to. But for the good of humanity I do think we need open tech like this to get widespread adoption, and it's going to take a long time. Reddit had almost two decades' head start.

And looking at a timeline, at this point in Reddit's history a few years in, the most popular subs with the early adopters were politics, programming, abe science. Sounds familiar, lol.

Relevant to many of us on here, this approach also lets you lean in to your ADHD powers to better your life instead of resisting them and stressing out.

Oh definitely the stairs, since that's the "frail old man" tell that he seems most afraid of. And with nobody anywhere near him, and on a beautiful clear day with no wind and no sun in his eyes.

It has to be clear as day that it was a failure of his body and not foul play or trickery.

You may be 100% correct, but I would still fear that the corruption soaked deep into our institutions by this bonkers insane second term would enable the fascist train to keep rolling and take us on the rest of the ride we've already started. Everybody around him is appear running the administration.

Maybe if the timing of the passing of the empire is favorable we might have some elections that seem valid maybe?

That part wouldn't be an issue, but swapping which hands have your action buttons vs control stick would be a mess for a while, lol.

All developed nations are going to realize they are in a population crisis in the coming decades. It's no surprise to see bigotry/xenophobia/conservatism hurting the future of a nation, but it's a bit surprising to see how popular it is across the globe.

I mean, I'm in the US and we are batshit stupid about it too. It's been the joke all my life about how Social Security won't be there when I retire one day. So hey instead of adding some of our most efficient workers (low pay, high labor output) to the tax base, let's commit crimes against humanity! Yeeeeehaw!

We all know the brain drain started in academia, but I'm surprised I don't hear about it in just about every field.