Apple tends to work on their designs in-house and only reveal them when they feel like they are “ready for prime time”. It a different approach from Samsung who tends to launch things that are barely beyond prototype and then iterate on them in public. Samsung does get the benefit of real world feedback. Apple has the feedback to abandon a project if it doesn’t pan out. Different strategies.
Apple generally tends to wait to jump on a fad, unless its sure it wont be a disaster.
They have to have the perfect “one more thing” moment. Foldable phones, are hard as in more moving parts, dangers of lint and dust getting stuck constantly. And I strongly feel a foldable iPhone would retail at $2000.
I wish I had an Apple phone with Android. I like their CPUs, but iOS is terrible IMO.
It so impersonal (lacks customizaility) and it's a pain to use along with Linux (for loading media, etc).
I'm not sure if this totally out of left-field, but have you tried dietary change like a ketogenic or other type of restrictive diet? I know that for some people some foods can trigger horrible mood changes like bipolar, anger, feelings of fear, depression, etc.. Especially if you're sensitive to some foods like gluten, dairy, certain meats & veggies, etc. Also if you ingest any other drugs/chemicals it would be worth considering their effects too (nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, weed, etc).
I think if there is no other option SSRIs can help but I've also seen them have bad side effects (especially when taken long-term). Of course you gotta pick the lesser of the evils.. curious if you've looked into this at all:
This happened to me. Switched to a very strict gluten/soy-free diet and years of bipolar and anxiety started to clear up. In hindsight I've realized I have celiac disease and no one bothered to tell me.
I second this. Foods affect your depression levels. Foods high in Omega 3 fight depression. Eat those foods regularly, you should notice the change in your mood.
Does anything think Wolfram Theory is going to end up being the right approach to go deeper down the rabbit hole? Personally I think the theory is really interesting and intuitively feels like the universe at some core level may work as the theory suggests. But I’m not sure if many people are considering the theory to have serious promise in the long term.
It has to find the rabbit hole first. So far as I understand, Wolfram theory hasn't yet been testable against any experimental data. So it's 100 years behind quantum theory. And in the final analysis, even if it achieves the same exquisite accuracy as quantum theory, will it do any better with the problem that really bugs people, which is the ability to tell us what we're really made of? That's the problem stated at the beginning of the article:
>>> But I’m still waiting for a straight answer as to what the structure of the atoms that make up my body is.
Ah, yes... I remember the first time I ran my submarine into Emerald Weapon without knowing what the creature was. Needless to say, I was ill-prepared for such a battle.
And who can forget Ruby Weapon? Which some would say is an even harder battle than Emerald Weapon... until you discover the optimal attack for the battle.... Hades.
What made these battles so special is that the internet in its current form didn't quite exist yet, so you couldn't easily look up guides or YouTube videos. You had to buy the big expensive FF7 strategy guide book and struggle yourself!
The easy access to information these days has made games a very different experience. Struggling for 2 minutes? Look up the answer.
Every and any medical procedure has risk attached, and consent was - until recently - considered a given for any adult of sound mind, which is to say that any concern about a medical procedure is always valid, at its base, as is the refusal to have one.
Yes, there were negative side effects reported for athletes. For tennis, there's a case of French player Jeremy Chardy who had to stop playing for the season after vaccine reaction:
The fact that an unverified and completely fabricated political smear campaign ravaged a US presidency for 4 years is so unbelievably corrupt and disturbing. I hope everyone who knew the truth about the phony story received adequate justice.
> The fact that an unverified and completely fabricated political smear campaign ravaged a US presidency for 4 years is so unbelievably corrupt and disturbing. I
I’m not sure why you are bringing up Birtherism now but, FYI, it lasted more than 4 years.
None of the three Presidential impeachments that have happened were based on Fake News, even granting, for the sake of argument, that the Steele Dossier at issue in TFA was “fake news”.
First, I completely understand and empathize with your sentiment.
But do you think the FBI should be allowed to pursue multi-year investigations against U.S. citizens based on intelligence information that they knew was fake?
Because that's what happened in this case and I find it deeply troubling that the FBI was willing to brush aside all the valid concerns while deciding to proceed with this case.
Gosh, disturbing comment section for disturbing times. When experimental medical treatments become mandatory for illnesses that have a 99%+ survival rate, and there is absolutely NO LONG TERM safety data, some red flags should be raised.
What about the long term safety data on catching / surviving COVID itself? Long COVID seems to affect between 10-30% of people who catch COVID. Why do I never hear anti-vaxxers being concerned about that?
Ah yes, Long COVID the self diagnosed symptoms that surprisingly coincide with those that you would expect if you told a society to lockdown for 18 months.
Because its mostly undefined what long-covid even means. In the worst cases it means organ damage, but Ill bet you anything those are not anywhere near 10-30% of cases. More likely people randomly feel like shit for a while sometimes, like every other year in my adult life.
> I'm the odd-man out to err on the side of "not-fear".
I'm not sure what this means. So you got the vaccine then because you're not afraid of it, right? Or you didn't get the vaccine because you're not afraid of COVID-19?
I am also not afraid really of COVID-19 but I got the vax because I'm also not afraid of that. Mostly I'm afraid I'd get it and then pass it to others where that could have been avoided by me just not being lazy for a second. I don't feel like an odd-man though.
I put long COVID in the same bucket at long Lyme, which doesn't actually exist. It's a pretext for hypochondria, not a legitimate basis for public policy.
While I don't doubt that such psychosomatic disorders exist, there is simply not enough data yet to make such a strong statement. There are numerous reports of people not recovering their sense of taste / smell months after catching COVID, on top of all of the hospitalized people reporting symptoms long first catching it. It's not like there isn't legitimate evidence of this: https://time.com/6093164/long-covid-19-largest-study/. Obviously, it'll take a lot of time and care to sort out the effect that the lockdowns / hospitalization have vs. just the disease itself, and it's entirely possible that the mental effects of the lockdown play a large role in these prolonged recoveries.
But still, it's a novel, deadly disease which has a significant impact on the respiratory system (and perhaps the vascular system as well). The human body and our immune system are incredibly complex. It's far too reductive to categorize all of these collective experiences as just "hypochondria".
> Gosh, disturbing comment section for disturbing times. When experimental medical treatments become mandatory for illnesses that have a 99%+ survival rate, and there is absolutely NO LONG TERM safety data, some red flags should be raised.
The current case fatality rate is averaging around 2%, but that's with access to medical care.
The CFR at the early stages of the pandemic, and in countries without good medical systems, is much higher. See Italy during the first wave, which peaked at around 15%, or several Central and South American countries, which have averaged between 5% and 10%.
Your pamphlet was published in June, at the start of the Delta-variant infection spike. On average, it takes eighteen days before someone infected with COVID-19 passes away from it.
I learned something very interesting the other day. Historically, virtually all cases of vaccine side effects occur in the first few months. I honestly can't believe I haven't seen this more widely discussed. It makes the concerns about "long-term safety data" mostly moot. By now, we have plenty of the relevant safety-critical data that we need for the covid vaccines.
Here is the director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic discussing the issue [1]:
> “Vaccines are just designed to deliver a payload and then are quickly eliminated by the body,” Goepfert said. “This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. mRNA degrades incredibly rapidly. You wouldn’t expect any of these vaccines to have any long-term side effects. And in fact, this has never occurred with any vaccine.”
> “The side effects that we see occur early on, and that’s it,” Goepfert said. “In virtually all cases, vaccine side effects are seen within the first two months after rollout.”
What's your definition of long term? mRNA vaccines are built on science started 30 years ago, are being made by companies founded to make mRNA vaccines 10+ years ago, and have been to numerous trials for many years now.
The current set of vaccines have been fielded for nearly 2 years. How long term do you want to get?
I find it interesting that full approval has not affected people calling the vaccines "experimental" in any way. Seems that this goalpost was never real in the first place.
