The focus mode ui is another bugbear - how scattered the ui is for this.

I can alter it from the bottom middle of the notification shade once set, but I can’t enable it from there - why?

At least put a line with date and time at the bottom of the notification shade so I don’t have to roll it all the way down.

Also, I’ve set triple back tap to turn on the flash… well, it only works (inconsistently) when the phone is unlocked. Why?

In iOS how hard it is to glance the time and date while watching a full screen video.

Black Panther.

It had so much hype in the media, i was so excited to watch it. It turned out to be rather boring and forgettable.

I wonder if it’s later going to be found that these people are the useful idiots of big oil producers trying to undermine the cause on public opinion on purpose.

I think he has somehow managed to leave the CEO of SpaceX alone to do her thing - or likely she has managed him also as she seems incredibly competent.

You just summoned a demon

If Apple can become a $2t company by convincing people that buying the same product as all your friends is “thinking different” anything is possible.

I’m assuming the West’s analysis is that there’s no better political reality inside Russia in sight, even with Putin gone, so they’re better off just declawing the bear. Which to a large degree has already happened…

Meanwhile the upside is that the collective West gets to try tactics and weapons for modern warfare (drones, ai, analysis) and get ready for the next fight. They also gained a fight-ready, trained ally in Ukraine and a sharper focus in Europe of what’s at stake and everything that that involves (eg energy and supply chain independence).

The downside is obviously the deaths of Ukrainians in the front line, but I don’t know how many of them could be prevented without NATO getting properly involved.

I hope she’s great, but I can’t imagine you’ll find more dedicated or more aligned to the cause people than those that have spent a lifetime working to build everything that is Mozilla.

I can’t imagine they can’t find good people from within - why do you need to inject people from outside right at the top of the foundation?

Plus a good chunk of people only wash hands for show: the water runs for 1 sec it barely touches their fingertips, then go on to these dryers and whatever is on their hands flies out everywhere.

Haven’t these been shown to be literally the proverbial shit hitting the fan in terms of spreading bacterial matter everywhere?

Yeah the state doesn’t worry about the homeless as a threat to authority. Where have you ever seen the homeless in organised political action?

He closed his bluesky account some time ago so he must have left then. I assume they had some dnd agreement because only after he confirmed it publicly did bluesky came out with their announcement.

They already seized those when the companies pulled out after Ukraine

I believe you but this is identical to werewolf movie tropes.

Sleep in a cage with your arm handcuffed?

Wdym? SVU copaganda has told me that cops solve all cases in a hard but fair manner, and they don’t stop until they found the perpetrator - and here it is, they got him! Yes he had to confess in his death bed but that’s a minor detail.

Brilliantly described. Just one more thing : be kind to yourself.

You are always listening to your own negative self talk and, if you find yourself in a big hole it can become overwhelming as you oscillate between absolutely abusing yourself, trying not to think about it, and giving up.

You wouldn’t put up with anyone else treating someone you love that way, don’t allow yourself to self-harm that way either.

I was scanning it for the “we’ve been played for ABSOLUTE FOOLS” part.

…the itch wasn’t scratched. :(

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The problem is that most of us have swallowed the ‘competence uber alles’ ideal that school fed us through exams and scoring, when the game really is mostly politics (as in interpersonal relationships). So we are understandably disappointed when the incompetent get promoted through brown nosing or luck, when we should be reevaluating the rules of the game.