BelleOfTheBall

Technology amplifies this, greatly. In a non-digital era our field of view was narrow, expanding either to our immediate physical surroundings or, when we went beyond them, limited by what we could read in a newspaper or see on TV. When I was little, I didn't know who was the most skilled person at my hobby or how popular it was or whether beautiful people online also happened to excel at it, while my teenage hormones wreaked havoc on both my personality and looks. Every single child in the civilized world nowadays is subjected to exactly that. You may be an aspiring dancer and there will be a million like you right there on your phone. It's hard for them to formulate self-worth when that is the case.

Does that mean the internet and digital advances are bad? No, it just means we were unprepared for them in a very meaningful way.

That's not really how that works. Certain crops are edible but we don't want them to spread too much because they easily overtake other, more fragile species. This applies to blackberries.

Egan is one of those rare writers where reading his book made me realize just how much smarter he is than me. Not even in a negative way, it's simply like listening to a lecture by a brilliant, brilliant man.

Don't want to praise scammers, but that is a very clever trick still. Especially since it preys on the mark being too happy about getting flowers for free to think straight. One could go the extra mile and search up data on people to do it on their birthdays or around significant dates.

Couldn't they argue that these royalties don't apply if payments aren't routed through the core platform? Such as saying "oh, well, the user paid through the web version of Spotify, not the iOS one"?

I think it is but there's plenty of Irish characters in British shows.

I didn't realize "gobshite" is supposed to be rare, but I guess all the British shows I've seen are to blame. Thinking about it, I probably couldn't name a single person in real life that I've heard say that word.

At least Windows had the decency to make their ridiculous straight-to-LinkedIn keyboard shortcut obscure. Applications auto-launching should not be a thing unless the user set them up to do so or they’re essential to the system’s functioning.

All the discussion is rightfully around the art bits of this article, but I'm an absolute mess thanks to those paragraphs about the author's mom. So gutting to have this juxtaposition of unforgettable art that's fragile and coddled and a woman who's forgetting everything about herself, equally fragile in her old age. Masterful work.

Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.

Frankly, while it’s obviously terrible if you ever want people to actually use it, I’m glad it’s so convoluted because I’d be majorly pissed if some other shortcut I use in some software lead my PC to accidentally also open LinkedIn.

I think it’s both: climate change as the origin of the freak thunderstorm and their absolute lack of working sewers and drainage systems is the cause of all that water accumulating to the point that we all saw in photos and videos.

> banning foreign property ownership

Don't you worry, a completely local conglomerate will gladly buy all those houses and that conglomerate may be owned by foreign citizens, but the company would be 100% American.

I know this is very pessimistic but we've all seen how lenient we get with corporations and I don't expect this to be an exception.

To be fair, the article probably gives all the details it can, what do people expect? They can't share information that they don't have or that the police aren't willing to divulge. Not every piece of news will have an in-depth look at a recent event.

Wow, I haven't heard of this one before. I'm no couch potato these days, but that's the kind of feat that makes me realize I am far from fit, it seems insanely difficult to even navigate the trail.