I remember Pocket Casts tried to take away lifetime purchases until people complained about it and they went 'fuck it' and gave people memberships that lasted 100 years or something. They did it before they had time to rebrand it as a 'Lifetime Member' in the GUI so good on them for fixing it so fast I guess.
I love it as an app but I'm not sure what it's like for new users that can't get lifetime memberships.
18-year-old me when a virtual cat repeated what I said
Smartphones came out at a really weird time for me. I was too young to be able to afford one but too old for parents to think I needed anything more than a flip-phone. Meanwhile, kids 5 years younger than me were getting them by default once they started secondary school.
We also had rationing for a good while longer than other countries after the wars (right into the mid-50s), so we have a whole generation who were pretty much raised with limited food options. That kind of national trauma sticks around and took a while to shake off.
Those girls are obviously in church thinking about our lord Jesus.