I don’t. I think there isn’t enough popular support for a gun ban for success to happen and it would be a pricey boondoggle. Laws that don’t have public consensus behind them have a poor track record. Look at prohibition or the war on drugs.

But it would not fail because of the size of the country. That’s silly.

There are a lot of businesses that cost so little to start it may as well be nothing. But you need to eat until they get off the ground.

Because the bad products are claiming to be good. It’s a poisoned product category.

A bidet is a safer option, and cheaper in the long term.

Unless you’re doing metalwork or something, then you should be wearing a bit more.

You don’t have to have 1 dude do the whole job. You can just use an equal amount of people per capita as smaller countries have.

It’s not possible to live according to the morals of everyone else. They’re mutually contradictory with each other for one thing lol. I’m at peace with the idea that other people won’t always agree with me.

A Ulefone Armor 34 pro. It’s a ridiculous 2lb brick with nightvision, a fucking projector, and 25,500mAh of battery.

But there are a LOT of phones that check off a few less of those those boxes. Reasonable phones with only twice as much battery as any Samsung. GSMArena has a filterable search function, just filter for phones that work with the bands your country/carrier uses. No phone is compatible with all countries networks!

While there is nutrition value to some bugs, most grasses pass undigested through the human gut. We are not ruminants Also if you leave bugs for a chicken to eat, you can have eggs instead.

If you get your phone from a carrier, you’re going to get the kind of phone they want. Android or Apple.

My phone was new last year and runs modern android. It has a headphone jack, SD card slot, and even FM radio. It also has enough battery to last 10 days of moderately heavy use. Niche phones exist if you look outside what’s sold by carriers.

If you want to fight them in court, you need standing. To have standing, you have to have been affected by the law.

You can not fight them in court until they do something. You can not sue for what someone might do.

I just boil a tablespoon or two of vinegar. Unless you let it get totally out of control any weak acid will work instantly, it’s food safe, and I already have vinegar in my pantry. Rinse twice or your next coffee/tea may taste off.

I didn’t create demographic trends older than I am to obfuscate anything.

Demographically most of the world has shown an explosion of population as industrialization of agriculture, medicine, and sanitation almost eliminate famines and childhood disease. And then you see the curve go down. Often all the way to negative. This is repeating in other countries, and just like they’re catching up faster economically, the social results are following as well. I’m not as sure about other countries, but Canada would have had negative growth since the 80s if not for immigration.

So, while smartphones might be a factor, they can’t be the primary or only cause of a trend that predates their existence by over a quarter of a century.

The demograpic downturn started decades before that, but in the west it was (and to some extent still is) hidden by immigration.

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I grew up with rotary phones, and I only knew about 2 numbers then. My notes about these numbers have just moved from a piece of paper pinned onto the wall.

At a demographic level, I am near certain you’re right on the money. But you are not an interchangeable part, identical to all the others in your bin. Neither is anyone else.

There are people who can use these tools to enhance their abilities. That’s how I use GPS navigation: to get me there the first time, and on trips to larger cities to avoid traffic. No amount of skill on my part is going to tell me that I need to turn onto a side street because there was an accident 10km further up the road.

So there’s nuance here. We can possibly have our cake and eat it too.

The USA already has them. And Oman does not, and can not get them within a reasonable time frame.

So the winning move is to let the others slug it out, even if they get hit. They don’t have enough power to act up.

Even more sensible. It can always be worse.

I think this is a neurodiversity thing. Different people find different things challenging, and I’ve noticed within my circle of friends that navigational ability varies wildly. I would find it unlikely that I’d have trouble finding somewhere I went using satnav once, but I could also see someone else using it several times without it teaching them the route.

I imagine that in the same way some people will use AI and have it be a learning experience, while for others it will be a crutch.

It might be more of a problem for people who grow up with it though; less of them may find the need to develop the underlying skills.

Gandalf has traits, and he never has or will exist.