You can pick almost any mid-range device in the 500 euro price range and that thing does 95% of what the 2k€ flagship does except fold in half and cost month’s wage. That’s Enough Phone for anyone.

It’s the “self” part that’s the illusion there. There’s just consciousness and its content. There’s no “you” in there that’s somehow separate from the process in your brain causing it to feel like something to be.

I don’t even know what mine is. There’s been a software update waiting since the day I bought it but I never installed it. I update my OS when I switch devices every 7 years or so. Same applies to apps. I update them when I’m forced to. If it’s working I won’t touch it. Updates reliably makes everything worse. They fix bugs I’ve never ecountered and introduce new ones along with UI changes that I will.

Much of it is just deeply strange to me. I haven’t had the gradual exposure to normalize what kind of content people put up so when I do stumble upon it I just get this uncanny feeling almost like the other people are trying to gaslight me into thinking this is normal.

I wonder how the results changed if the question was put a different way. Even I struggle to answer this a bit. I don’t think society should “accept” my homosexuality. There’s plenty things I don’t “accept” either but I just stay out of it then. No need to like it - just don’t be a jerk and let me live my life. I don’t need your validation.

Different argument. The implicit narrative here is that the rich don’t pay taxes when in reality they pay almost all the taxes. If you want them to pay even more then that’s fair but the reality is that most people don’t have the faintest clue what the actual numbers are to begin with.

Top 1% in the US pays 40% of all income tax and top 10% pays 70% while the bottom 50% pays 3.3%

I was just about to say that this almost perfectly describes my job as a handyman.

Literally says right there.

…there to be enough working-age people to cover the retirement and medical payments of the ones no longer working.

I own about 40% of it and the bank owns the rest. I could pay it off and own 100% of it if I wanted to but that’s not wise financially.

I have no issue telling people I’m not doing good if that is the truth. The meal example I can’t say. Telling the truth there would be the right thing to do according to my principles but a situation like that almost never occurs - at least it hasn’t for me over the past 7 years or so. Therefor I can’t say that I absolutely would.

However, I’ve answered truthfully to even more uncomfortable questions than that in the past - regarding people’s appearance for example - so from that perspective I see no reason why I wouldn’t.

I’m unsure how I feel about a lie by omission. For me the point has always been not to actively deceive people by telling them something that’s not true. I’m not obligated to tell everything that’s on my mind. I can also just say that I don’t want to answer. However if I evade answering the thing they are asking by dancing around it then that would count as deception.

Would you want to be lied to if your guest didn’t like the food you served to them at all?

As if you couldn’t tell when someone is genuinely into what they’re doing. What a depressingly cynical view of the word.

Depends how you define lying. If you mean saying things that you know to be untrue then I would disagree that it’s necessary.

I read a book about lying around 7 years ago and it was making the argument that it’s only justifiable when used to prevent greater harm, the classic example there being Nazis on your door asking if you have Anne Frank in the attic. Other than that it’s always wrong and often completely unnecessary. Applies to white lies as well.

The only single time I’ve lied since then was reflexively telling a beggar that I didn’t have any cash. Again, completely unnecessary. In fact I’ve not lied for so long that lying doesn’t even come to mind anymore as an option when handling a situation. People can tell that they’re not going to like what I’m about to say next before I even say it because they can see me hesitate and carefully choose my words. They don’t always like hearing it but not one person has cut ties because of it - rather the opposite. They now come to me when they want the truth.

Additional benefit of this is that it makes me carefully consider my own behaviour so that I don’t need to lie about it later.

Again, not lying doesn’t mean speaking everything that’s on your mind. It simply means not saying things you know to be untrue.

I highly doubt that would be anywhere near enough even if the issue was only limited to the country with the highest number of ultra wealthy people which it isn’t.

I order most of my stuff from ebay or aliexpress so I’m used to weeks long waits. When the package finally arrives I have often already forgot what I ordered.

I just ordered a longsword a week back and the esimated delivery was in 60 days.

Worry about population decline isn’t about wanting more people. It’s about wanting there to be enough working-age people to cover the retirement and medical payments of the ones no longer working. We know exactly how many 30-year-olds we’ll have in 20 years and it’s simply not enough. Something has to give and usually the first to go is the benefits for the people who most need them.

Last time I was searching for a job I didn’t even look for ones with open positions. There’s so many people applying that I won’t even bother. I simply looked up a company I wanted to work for and cold-emailed them with a free-form application. I didn’t even attach a CV or anything. The second company I emailed called me in for an interview. I’ve previously also just gone to the physical location and asked face to face. If they tell me to send an email application I say that I won’t and then go to the next place.

Every time I bring this up I get ridiculed for my boomer advice yet somehow I’m not the one ever complaining about unemployment or financial struggles.

Nowadays I run my own company and if I ever hire an employee it’s not going to be someone who sent me a formal application. It’s someone who calls me asking for work while also demonstrating genuine enthusiasm about it. I could not care less what their credentials are - I want someone who is motivated and takes pride in their work.

All cars come with the same sensors and send the same data home. It has nothing to do with the engine.

You wish to elaborate on that bold claim a little? Because there’s a ton of sensors that are present in combustion engine but not in EVs and they have everything to do with the engine.