After disabling Apple Intelligence I'm no longer able to use CarPlay with a message saying Siri needs to be enabled. It doesn't appear Siri is available independent of Apple Intelligence, is that correct? Any way to enable Apple Intelligence exclusively for CarPlay?
It's funny. If you had 100 people in a room, there's one guy paying for about 45 people. And the next 4 people are paying for about 5 people each (20 total). And the lowest paid 50 people combined are paying for about 2 people total.
I think we should just not have the bottom half of income earners in the US pay any taxes. It wouldn't change the numbers much, and then it would be one less thing for them to complain about.
However, I don't expect anyone to put down their torches and pitch forks any time soon. It's too easy to use this to get people spun up, even above average educated people as in this forum.
That data is not adjusted for wealth transfers and other social programs. If you do make the adjustment, you will find that a majority of Americans are not net taxpayers at all. That number may be as high as 60%. The data on this is obfuscated by having 10000 different programs partly so you can't see what the real distribution of federal revenue is like.
Those 50 under-paid and exploited people own just ~3% of all the wealth in the room, even though they're doing about 30% of the work.
Where does the vast, vast majority of the value of their work go? It goes to the asset class - the top 1 or 2 people.
And you call the top guy generous because he pays ~40% tax on the money the bottom 90% made for him.
Even as he buys politicians, runs monopolies, subsidizes fossil fuel, and strip mines the planet for even more.
Don't make out like the 50% of people making 2 or 3% of income are just ungrateful, or bad at math. The insane level of inequality in America is literally an existential threat to humanity.
No such thing as free lunch. Up to the individual to decide whats worse but the "miracle cure" positioning these drugs are enjoying in popular media is troubling.
Thank you. "No free lunch" is perhaps my least favorite saying.
Free lunch is good. We should strive for free lunch. You can actually make things better with no cost.
These days is feels like a good segment of the population is decidedly anti-solution. Doesn't matter what the solution is, they don't want it. They take a "do nothing and hope it works" approach to everything.
IMO "No free lunch" is not anti-solution at all, on the contrary its a problem solving (engineering?) tenet that simply acknowledges there are always trade offs and constraints. Just like any software engineering project can't be expected to do everything for all people with no cost.
The "magic pill of health" aura that surrounds these new drugs is clearly opaque in terms of what the trade offs are, partly because its still way too early to know.
Back to my original post, there is some evidence of risk of going blind as a result from taking Ozempic et al. Might be worth the risk for some, even many. I'm fully in support of options and letting people make informed choices. Informed being the key word here. It will take time for things to shake out, I do hope there is a net positive since we are talking about millions of people after all.
Your study you linked compares the diabetic population taking GLP-1s against a healthy population. Of course they're going to find more eye problems in the diabetic population, diabetes damages the eye.
Correlation does not imply causation. Especially this one.
"The researchers compared patients who had received prescriptions for semaglutide compared to those taking other diabetes or weight loss drugs. Then, they analyzed the rate of NAION diagnoses in the groups, which revealed the significant risk increases."
I don't interpret it at all as you do - if they're taking "other diabetes or weight loss drugs" they're clearly not part of the "healthy population".
> And it requiring to be on the same Apple ID was less than ideal...
Similar experience, I tried to get Sidecar working a while ago via Lightning->USB cable. After realizing the Apple ID was a requirement I gave up. Bought an inexpensive 13" HiDPI portable display on Amazon, plugged it in and I've been happy ever since. Sure, its another device to bring around but its thin & light and a one cable solution. It just works...
No, but I won't be surprised if the plans stick around longer. Speculating here, but I think odds are good T-Mobile continues to offer them for longer than required & just stops the annual data increase it has been doing
Q1 and Q2 2022 had negative GDP growth [0]. Ignoring the debate about whether or not that constitutes a "true recession", as the article mentions this index indicates the economy is experiencing strain and the timelines match up to the previous citation you mention. To me that would indicate it has some level of accurate representation.
Yet nominal GDP growth and real GDI were high and positive (respectively). GDI should equal GDP so it was a unique situation, not really indicative of any additional non-energy financial strain.
