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inflammable scarf/coat I think you mean flammable. find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time I don't think that exists.
Inflammable and flammable are very close synonyms. Non-flammable is the antonym.
That doesn't matter here. Clothes might be flammable, but are not volatile enough to be labeled inflammable.
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We have electricity, plumbing, literacy, low hookworm rates, and rapidly declining human fellowship, companionship and participation. Strange times indeed.
> rapidly declining human fellowship, companionship and participation What is the evidence for this? This just reads like the eternal conservative lament that society is going down the tubes.
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Do you know what life was like 100 years ago in the US? 35% of households had access to electricity. About 20% had some sort of indoor plumbing, running hot water would be even rarer. Most people heated their houses by shoveling coal or feeding wood fires. Society was even more racially segregated and legally codified and brutally enforced by the government. In warmer rural areas it wasn't uncommon for hookworm to be…
I'd say the difference between those times is the feeling of agency/possibility of a good life (defining good life by what that meant at the time). Objectively, material conditions were worse, but due to a variety of factors, the average person felt that society was getting better . We'll put up with a lot of shit if we think it's temporary or something that we could change. And some people honestly liked living like…
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Do you know what life was like 100 years ago in the US? 35% of households had access to electricity. About 20% had some sort of indoor plumbing, running hot water would be even rarer. Most people heated their houses by shoveling coal or feeding wood fires. Society was even more racially segregated and legally codified and brutally enforced by the government. In warmer rural areas it wasn't uncommon for hookworm to be…
I'd say the difference between those times is the feeling of agency/possibility of a good life (defining good life by what that meant at the time). Objectively, material conditions were worse, but due to a variety of factors, the average person felt that society was getting better . We'll put up with a lot of shit if we think it's temporary or something that we could change. And some people honestly liked living like…
One of the main themes of conservatives is that then is better than now as well as holding back change their supporters push the notion that things are getting worse (regardless if it's true or what specifics) to help them get elected
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People were working harder for even less a hundred years ago and society didn't collapse.
Tradition, nationalism, religion etc. were much stronger a hundred years ago. IE there was a society worth working to participate in.
Except for Israel wouldn't you say though counties have some of the lowest religious participation? What about nationalism?
I'm not trying to prove the opposite of you view as this doesn't show causation but I think it sufficiently counters your view
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I'd say the difference between those times is the feeling of agency/possibility of a good life (defining good life by what that meant at the time). Objectively, material conditions were worse, but due to a variety of factors, the average person felt that society was getting better . We'll put up with a lot of shit if we think it's temporary or something that we could change. And some people honestly liked living like…
Well that notion of honesty is subjective and meaningless.
Meaningless, no, because we're hairless chaos apes living in hives of other hairless chaos apes and plenty of our fellow apes live their lives based on this subjective measure which means it needs to be considered in governing and managerial decisions.
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I'd say the difference between those times is the feeling of agency/possibility of a good life (defining good life by what that meant at the time). Objectively, material conditions were worse, but due to a variety of factors, the average person felt that society was getting better . We'll put up with a lot of shit if we think it's temporary or something that we could change. And some people honestly liked living like…
I want to add that the current feeling the country is getting worse, in my opinion, is pushed by right wing media. One of the main themes of conservatives is that then is better than now as well as holding back change their supporters push the notion that things are getting worse (regardless if it's true or what specifics) to help them get elected
(I worked in political communications and spent a couple of years getting lists of stories and headlines from all sides of the aisle fed to my email.)
One example of this is all the fear-mongering the Dems/their media arms do around things like abortion rights or queer rights/safety. (And before anybody comes for me, I'm a lesbian so I'm impacted by both.) Like apparently I'm supposed to be constantly terrified by the backsliding on both. And they do concern me but like I grew up in the 90s? I personally remember things being worse and I wasn't curled up in a ball throwing money at the Dems to Save Me. (And speaking of memory holing, as a gay millennial I remember quite clearly how long it took for the Dems to get behind gay marriage: Let's not pretend the current socially progressive planks are anything other than realizing we're a voting bloc that can be pandered to as hard as the MAGA people. I have no doubt the Dems would throw queer people under the bus tomorrow if it were a more viable electoral strategy to do so.)
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I want to add that the current feeling the country is getting worse, in my opinion, is pushed by right wing media. One of the main themes of conservatives is that then is better than now as well as holding back change their supporters push the notion that things are getting worse (regardless if it's true or what specifics) to help them get elected
The right are open about pushing 'it's worse than it's ever been'. The left prefers to memory-hole history and combine that memory hole with thought terminating hyperbole: They like to present threats completely divorced of historical context. (I worked in political communications and spent a couple of years getting lists of stories and headlines from all sides of the aisle fed to my email.) One example of this is al…
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I am playing a video game now, where I should run a nation. Most of the game is about making economical tradeoffs. I want a GDP growth, so I have to develop sophisticated industries with higher throughouput. These industries has better margins and can afford better wages. As a result, no one wants to work in agriculture. There are three ways out of it: 1) make agriculture more sophisticated, like automatization, whic…
This makes sense. And the game sounds really interesting! What is it called? I may try it out.
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IP address, browser/device fingerprint.
Precise locations, time spent at each location. And device information (model, OS), super cookie association. And if it asks permissions: contacts and photos, etc. sounds like parent would grant these permissions out of app love.
You can also reject contact and photos permissions to apps. None of the hotel apps have asked me for these.