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> virtual workouts

Or real workouts. I want to be able to have floating text to read on my runs, and real time biometric data directly in my field of view rather than on my watch would be cool too.

Good call, edited.

> There is no age limit to that restriction

Wrong I’m afraid. Minors don’t have full rights, that’s why their bag/locker/car can be searched randomly, why they can have speech abridged, why they can’t see NC-17 movies(edit: scratch that one). The supreme court has weighed against minors many times.

You can just buy another product. That's why it is dumb. There are plenty of great non-Apple smartphones on the market.

So you can cheat against console players? Every device capable of doing computing doesn't need to be regulated as a general purpose computer.

Exile yourself from your social group to own the corporations. Got it.

Yeah, I don't have a lot of hope for Microsoft acquired companies tbh. Just look at what happened to Rare after they were acquired. All the games in their pipeline were published on Xbox, but then the Studio's production nose dived. Rare as an independent studio was producing banger after banger for 20 years. Under ~15 years of Microsoft they have only produced Viva Pinata, B&K:N&B, then nothing for a decade but some Kinect sports trash nobody wanted(sorry). then Sea of Thieves.

There isn't user choice, only developer choice. For example, if I want to play Fortnite with my IRL friends I must download Epic Launcher. If I want to play WoW with my friends I must download BattleNet, if I want to play Counter Strike I must download Steam. I don't get much choice in what my already existing community of friends decides to play. This is likely to be mirrored in phone app stores. Need whatsapp/facebook/instagram on your phone? download the Meta Store! Don't like their T&C? Pound sand.

Anyone with physical access to your device is now able to download and run arbitrary code. How is that not additional risk?

Vans are not better for goods as a universal rule, they are better for certain classes of goods. I do not want a yard of manure/dirt/gravel dumped in my van, but thats a common use of a pickup in my neck of the woods. Like extremely common.

> Hong Kong

Hot take: The Americas just aren't developed to the level of Eurasia, and we should stop pretending like they are.

Also, tractors are built to do work, not keep their occupants safe in a crash.

> Thirdly . . .

I’m sorry, but you don’t seem to understand the concept of giving. If I give something to my family, it is theirs. They can use it, lend it, sell it, destroy it.

I agree with parent comment, if they have 3 houses, buy one for their daughter. As in put her name on the deed. Either they care about her and love her and their grandchildren or they are selfish and would rather have 3 rentals then what’s best for their kids.

How is empowering others to create not a moral good?

Yeah, if this article was more balanced and less sensational they might have touched on(heh) how incredibly sensitive our sense of touch/proprioception in our fingers and hands is, especially if trained[1].

[1] https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/amazing-sensitiv...

per that link: Midnight Blizzard == Cozy Bear[1] who were in the US news.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_Bear

People are complaining, loudly, about pricing. Demand for staples is just inelastic. Every person I know who isn't making a comfortable salary (6 figs+ in California) constantly complains about having no money and taking a significant QoL hit because of CoL prices.

Sticky doesn’t imply permanent. They went up legitimately during the covid/supply chain debacle. They haven’t returned because prices are sticky.

Nothing changed. Prices in a consolidated market are sticky. Once manufactureres realize they can charge more and make more money, they are going to do that until market forces make them correct.

English is flexible. Concise writing reads faster.

> too jaded

I don’t think you are. The number of times the person inferring I’m jaded is later found out to be a manipulator is very high. Calling people who are perceptive of lies, “jaded”, “negative”, “pessimistic”, etc is seemingly a common tactic employed by sociopaths to socially empower themselves while simultaneously weakening those that might call them out.

Instead of doing search yourself, you ask bing chat to tell you the answer.

It searches the web and writes you a cited essay based on the content of the search results. I read the essay it provides to determine which links to follow instead of scrolling a page of links. I’ve found it really useful.

Good for investigating generalities more than specifics, and there is a slight learning curve. It likes short direct questions.

e. Punctuation

You don’t have to give Apple your data. It uses information stored on device.

Well one thing that is sort of notable about Japan/Onigiri but left off this blog is that they will all contain fish.

Being a vegetarian in Japan was miserable. I want to go back with a pack of Protein bars so I can travel and feel decent. I practically subsisted off potato chips on my trip.

Edit: The number of people telling me I should have hired a guide is hilarious. I couldn't have afforded that. I did go with 2 Japanese speakers, but wasn't with them the whole time.

I asked for help often, and got it (Japan is so cool like that <3), but when I was there in 2017 I had a really hard time with my diet.

I so wish I would have brought protein bars because I would have felt better, been more present as a result, and spent less time thinking about food/my diet and more time taking in the experience.

Also, being vegetarian is going to be miserable to me most places I go, as my home in California is one of the best places to be veg in the world. I find the mid-West just as bad as Japan, for example. Being vegetarian, fit and trim means I have to be very careful of my macros. Getting adequate dietary protien is hard even at home.

I don’t get that. I would say the same about white rice. Why would I ever eat it when I could be eating delicious black rice?

And before you start, I eat a gō of rice virtually every day.

I’m genuinely confused about the popularity of white rice.

Ironically, I have trouble imagining being able to think properly with an inner monologue. If I try to plan my words rather than just let them flow, I almost always stumble and become incapable of selecting the proper words.

If I'm reading something very very difficult, like a research paper in a field I'm only just getting my feet wet in, I will actually vocalize what I'm reading to help me figure out what I need to look up. But this is only when I'm confused.

To answer your question further down about sanity checking, I just know what know, so a sanity check involves me verifying that yes, indeed, black is the minus terminal on both batteries and red is the positive terminal on both batteries, that is my visual memory is correct. That said, a lot of people have remarked that I'm pretty deft in my actions. So maybe it's related?

It's hard for me to generalize about my experience as it seems very natural to me and I haven't really had a lot of exposure to others like me, so I don't know what parts are necessarily about me being me, and which are about me not having mental imagery(for lack of a better term). I get the feeling that an innervoice is kinda stressful though? I'm a very relaxed person by nature. The concept of "negative self talk" is completely alien to my brain.

I’m sure your idea would attract some players, but people using cheats explicitly want an unfair advantage.

> how are you able to speak?

How are you able to walk? You don’t think about every muscle contraction.

Speaking, writing, drawing and walking are all about the same to me.

(I also have no inner voice and aphantasia)

Not OP, but I want to see an hour by hour forecast for the day. If there is precip, I want to see an animated active radar view, with forecast frames.

“What’s the weather @ time” is inadequate. I live in California(albeit not on the coast or in the valley).

If you have money and it ends up funding dickheads, congrats you are also a dickhead. The more money you have the less forgivable it is, simply because more money buys you better insight.

> I can’t pick up Kant or Hegele or Sartre

Ah, there’s your problem, at least in my opinion/experience. You have to start at the beginning, read Plato’s Republic followed by Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. When you read them don’t take them as fact but as a “living” historical foundation that will help you set the stage for reading increasingly more recent books.