I'm kind of surprised people felt that way about AirPods. I don't remember that at the time. They seem quite mild to me at this point - people didn't mind wearing regular earbuds around, why worry if there's a cord or not?
That makes sense... he's a fairly normal person. I could see using the Vision Pro at a co-working place anyway, especially for someone who's an iOS app developer.
It does seem like an oddly clunky device by Apple standards. I don't find the overall idea abhorrent and could picture owning one down the road - perhaps after they've had a few years to make the device smaller and less expensive. I have no idea what I'd use it for though. Maybe once there are more exciting games than repackaged mobile games like Super Mega Fruit Ninja.
The porn thing is overblown - it’s only about VR porn. You can watch all the porn you want in a video player or web browser. However people who don’t like Apple eagerly ate up this news, as if Apple banned porn on the device somehow.
It’s a native feature of the device that allows its user to get enormous amounts of attention, in real life and subsequently online, by simply wearing it in public.
Sounds horrible. I guess I’m not someone who seeks attention at any cost like some people, it public is the last situation I’d use this thing in. I would feel like a complete dumbass wearing it at a coffee shop and waving my hands around.
Another important thing to know is the guy who runs thegrayzone
is a regular contributor to Russian state-owned Sputnik and RT.
Blumenthal was a guest at RT's 10 Years On Air anniversary party attended by President Vladimir Putin, then-Lieutenant General Michael Flynn of the United States and English politician Ken Livingstone. In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News in November 2017, Blumenthal defended RT against "the charge that it’s Kremlin propaganda."
Blumenthal founded The Grayzone website within a month after his visit to Moscow.
People who talk endlessly without even asking about your own thoughts or experiences are red flagged. Sometimes i'm guilty of talking a lot about something I'm excited about, but at some point I ask people what they've been doing at least. I do the thing of sharing common experiences like "oh something like that happened to me too!" but it's meant to show empathy, not provide an opportunity to change the subject to myself. I think this is something people learn with self awareness.
I had a girlfriend who when I had known casually for years before we got together. We met up at a Dunkin Donuts one time and she literally talked about herself for 2:45 and I barely got a single word in. I was "wtf is with her, like Adderal overload?" and she asked if I wanted to hang out afterwards and i was uh... I have to finish what I'm doing and move this stuff out of state, sorry... I ended up moving in with her 6 years later and it turned out no, she wasn't on amphetamines, she is just a really self-unaware narcissist. My advice is that if you hang out with someone and it's exhausting and you leave feeling worse, don't hang out with them.
Sega used this in their pioneering MMO from ~1999, Phantasy Star Online. “Beat Time”. The idea was to help you coordinate meeting times with people regardless of time zone. The problem was we had to convert it to regular time to have any idea when 725 beats was or how long 150 beats from now was.
They're not asking or working with Democrats, they're painting them as worse than 'the rock' and telling people to abandon the party. Oddly it's the exact same thing foreign influence operations were doing on reddit in 2015, and Republicans in ~2006... discouraging young voters from voting at all. Huh, wonder who that helps.
Okay, sure: Biden was shitty on the train worker labor union. Biden should tell Israel to wrap it up, stuff it and they have enough weapons already. Oh shit, I just got kicked out of my 'cult'.
Trump ALREADY lost the popular vote by 10% in real life. He actually won with 77,000 votes in 3 states and somehow this amazing revolution you're envisioning didn't materialize.
I'll just ignore the first part since you've obviously spent half the thread condemning Biden.
Anyway, so people should have been out there going wild protesting Al Gore and Hillary Clinton losing the popular vote, I guess. However, that's the way the system works, as bad as it is. I'm sure some people would protest but my example (which isn't even realistic since it ignores the electoral college) would be interpreted as Trump winning by 5%.
That guy sure is annoying looking.