My screen timeout is a minute, so they likely can’t get very far before bumping the side button or just not babysitting it for 60 seconds and needing a long password or fingerprint. Any app worth looking at needs a fingerprint as well, so even if unlocked, not super valuable short of a highly coordinated, personally targeted attack. In which case Pegasus would be easier and faster.
Plus, I always “pull over” and hold my phone with two hands when in a busy public place.
Hard agree.
I genuinely never begrudge anyone reclining back into me, because I will pass that right along to whoever is behind me.
This really fails to acknowledge the hodegpode, anything goes chaos that was towns choosing their own noon based around someone with a watch and a bell looking at the shadow on a stick a few times a year.
Sometimes standardization isn’t simply a terror induced by capitalism, and has accrual benefits.
Aw, dammit. See, I would have showed up as late to that party as if I had done it today.
I wouldn’t try and prove anything.
I would “invent” a few basic tchotchkis and nick-nacks to get money, then out to California ahead of the Gold Rush Hollywood? to …something, I dunno, and buy land.
Invent a couple variations on heat pumps and electric motors. By 1928 sail away to New Zealand.
Yeah, it’s a big part of why I stopped participating in reddit. Any hobby or skill subreddit has driven off anyone truly knowledgeable and is a constant flood of images of someone doing the “Fisher Price My First _____” level thing and a title like "guys, am I doing this right? :3” for karma. Actual questions bring out toxic opinion-farmers. It’s pointless.
There’s actually several overlapping societal issues at play.
First, a distrust of experts. Especially doctors unless it’s doctors giving away medical advice or confirming biases like “sure, you like butter? Im a doctor, butter makes you healthy. Eat more butter.”
Next, both the availability of research and experiences online does mean it IS actually easier to find, validate for yourself, and share knowledge. But thats also mixed up in people that feel close enough to knowledgeable experts after dabbling in something 2 or 3 times.
Both of these things are also in the context of, for lack of a better term, the overall entitlement of people online to seek and deserve to find easy solutions that make them feel good. So when experts chime in with technical, rational, or sophisticated options that truly are better, they might expect to get blasted as “gate keeping” and be disincentivized from being post of a community, leaving the sophomoric “I’m no expert” crowd as the loudest group that’s barely competent enough to impress newbies and no one else.
Nice try, pickpocket on the metro
Not sure, other than a general combo of “question everything” and understanding the scientific method. I’ve never had to teach it before.
Yeah, not revolutionary - critical thinking is a skill that’s fundamental to so much else. Its like learning to read or cook. The base skill let’s your learn more.
Not at all, I’m saying that many smaller problems people often cite are simply symptoms of a lack of critical thinking.
This covers so many other things.
My usual specific go-to is how to search the internet for things. But not knowing how to search for hyper-specific things is the symptom of a lack of critical thinking skills.
Easier for me to just make a half gallon at a time an jar it up.
Home made version of Marie Sharp’s with more smoke.
Not at all. All they’ve done is double pinky swear promise about all this investment. I would bet €10 only 2 or 3 things planned already go forward.
Zombies?
Look around. We’re in an apocalypse right now.
You need zombies to make it real?
The board of every chamber is required to include someone from the embassy…
But I see you need something more…how do we say? Fulfilling. Yes… Something more…yes…
I beseach you to search the interwebs for the Commerce Department Gold Key Service. Wherein a company pays to have government staff from the Commerce Department’s Foreign Commercial Service, to literally shill for anyone that ponies up the cash, and organize a matchmaking service to promote the company in several small meetings.
Not enough for a distinguished gentleperson as yourself? But of course, my friend. But of course. I see you demand more.
I present to you, the most, ah- exquisite match to what you want, the FCS Single Company Promotion. A festive event in which Federal employees host the event of the company’s choosing to “promote awareness” of the company. A conference? Sure. A fun luncheon presentation? Yes, of course. Or, perhaps a delightful cocktail party! Numerous of which I have personally attended.
Seriously though, this happens all the time.
This was already how all this stuff worked. The US government promotes US companies all the time. Always has.
Search for the “American Chamber of Commerce” in any county. Then look through their social media or board.
I usually blame the birds, but the taking car deserves some shade.
It’s the Web 2.0 model of corralling people into walled garden platforms, where they’re driven insane. One day people will look back at this time and wonder what we were thinking.