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Seems like a scam. This shouldn't be here.

I remember writing soy is basically poison and definitely not a health food here on HN not long ago. People would be smart to wise up to this sooner rather than later. It is still an extremely unpopular stance because many are lead to believe that this dirt cheap source of protein is "okay".

>>I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this.

I read this as: I am currently a happy apple customer. I do not buy apps on other app stores because they do not exist.

>>What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.

Apple's practices as a company are things that, historically, have more or less gotten other companies into a lot of legal trouble. The whole world is watching and waiting for a legal system somewhere to step in and say, "Ok, enough is enough."

Like it or not, the civillian bombings of Japan were absolutely necessary.

Japan was a very sick and diseased nation and culture at the time. They had made a national, media broadcasted sport of beheading children. They had turned deadly human experimentation into science. They had waged wars of aggression on all of their neighbors, no matter how distant.

They brought their cultural disease to American shores and attacked my family. All of their civillian science and industry and culture brought about the war machine that came to American shores to murder us in a time of peace, on a continent far away from their own.

The bombings of Japan should stand as a warning to all nations and cultures for all generations. If your culture gets sick with that totalitarian ideology, it is a lot better if you fix it at home on your own terms than if you bring it to our shores and make us fix it for you.

You can all enjoy the peaceful world that resulted from American sacrifice, and posturing after WW2. Criticize us however you like, you have that right and luxury regardless of where you live.

Regardless, you would be wise to learn this one lesson from history: Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.

Germany and Japan learned that lesson the hard way and they deserved every thing they got in response.

Even prior to advanced theories, we know of plague doctors who made efforts to protect themselves.

People knew there was something going on between infections that spread them even before the more advanced germ theories of Pasteur.

A theory proposed by a professor at my school was:

The black death killed a lot of the people who grouped in churches and ignored the common sense precautions of staying away from people. This could be seen as a culling of what was largely the weak and foolish third of society.

Coincidentally, with fewer people to do the labor around and a generally smarter stock of people remaining, the upper classes were forced to pay more for services that keep the world running. There was a huge impact on labor markets, claimed the professor.

Thirdly, and likely related to all of this, the renaissance began.

I grow concerned with the increase in addiction research among technology companies. The language is disguised as user retention, engagement, social, gamification, etc.

I do not have a solution to this problem and it is a problem that I myself would contribute to if I was trying to design an app that people would use. Greater addiction mechanisms trend toward wider market adoption which leads to a higher value for shareholders. The current system of incentives to a company makes this focus inevitable.

Social media addiction can lead to severe mental health issues, eating disorders, depression, and even suicide.

Video game addiction often leads to children and adults completely destroying their professional or academic lives. In many cases, a child grows up to find a balance between working just enough to afford their videogame habbit.

I have read stories of an adult who was so addicted to a simple cellphone game that they were compulsively telling lies to create more game time and ultimately destroyed all of their social relationships and lost their job. All of that dysfunction stems from their brain's addiction to the rush of progress bars, levelling up, victory screens, and success chimes.

Not all people are wired the same. A lot of brains are hopelessly addicted to these two categories of stimuli and I feel you dismiss them a bit too carelessly.

Twitters design makes it kind of a weird one way communication tool.

Elon Musk can tweet something and a million people will reply. What percentage if those replies are bots, shills, or people trying to get money out of some offer of employment? Likely an absurdly high %.

Then there are the hacker groups and their influence campaigns... All over twitter.

I feel like twitter might be useful on a self hosted intranet with your close family and friends -- but as a global product it is grotesque.

Society would rejoice if most of the social media entities were banned or blocked.

100% that is what I meant to say. thanks.

If Reddit.com/r/worldnews can have Ghislaine Maxwell (of the epstein case) as a moderator (u/maxwellhill) -- then Ycombinator gets its own billionaire criminal.

Give Affinity products a try. They cover a variety of very serious use cases and they offer some of the highest production quality tutorials on their website to quickly train someone.

Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and lost land for years now. This isn't a conspiracy theory, but is instead conspiracy fact.

The strategy of appeasement is known to fail because it emboldens dictators like Hitler or Putin to always want and take more.

Putin already has taken a large chunk of Ukraine and Georgia with invasions that launched during a prior olympic event.

He needs to be stopped so that Ukraine doesn't end up getting another Russian imposed genocide and the world doesnt't end up in WW3.