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It's incredibly more likely that continued existence will be no worse than the world today, which is quite nice. Even if it becomes torturous existence beats non-existence.
I've experienced extreme loss, but continue to expreience new connections, knowledge, etc. There's simply no small limit to what a human can experience, and hundreds of years is paltry compared to when it would take to even be on the verge of boredom/emptiness, if such a verge could actually ever be reached.
And to be honest, <1% odds seem a lot better than 0% odds for normal death. (Sans religious aftermaths)
Namely - if a user buys Apple products because they want the security/curation/whatever that comes with Apple's walled garden, that advantage is broken by forcing Apple to have other app stores on their platform because now that user cannot get all the content through their trusted source as they could before.
On the other hand. `git checkout .` with unstaged changes tends to be the most common way I've seen people lose code via git.
Are these sorts of fees randomly applied by carriers? I'd definitely start shopping around for a new carrier if I was on T-Mobile.
I could see it being useful for interbank transfers and for bank to billing (e.g. credit cards, etc.)
I prefer systems that make advanced coursework and guidance available to anyone willing and able to put in the work. And the "who" may vary from year to year or course to course based on the individual student interest.
Legally requiring companies to degrade customer experiences is frustrating.
I've bought mostly Apple products because I prefer their system to Androids. People who disagree can buy something else.
Competition is better than these father knows best overarching regulations.
I'm happy my school admins made this available to us. I don't understand your rage.
Teens who go to bed at a reasonable hour are getting enough sleep and performing well.
Many people, myself included, choose to use Apple products in part BECAUSE of how those products work and function, today. I don't want to install additional browsers, app stores, or other crap on my phone, I just want it to work well, out of the box with reasonably high security. For my needs Apple products provide that today.
If Apple's products don't fit your needs, the solution is trivial - don't buy Apple products.
If android did not exist and Apple controlled the market it would be a different story, but that is far from the case.
The problem is that in an effort to avoid being wasteful, the bureaucracy aggressively tracks money spent, and forces a return of unused funds. This in turn disincentivizes saving because there is literally no benefit to spending efficiently or saving money for rough times, because those short term savings are immediately vacuumed back up by the higher level bureacracy.
Blaming student services departments for overspending is missing the root of the problem. I've seen the exact same issues in STEM research institutions.
Projects that just "align with political talking points" tend to be much more challenging to fund because there's significantly less money available in those domains.
Economically, an educated populace produces positive externalities on society. As such it makes sense for the government to fund and subsidize it to some extent because it produces a good ROI for both the society and the individuals.
Somewhat horrifying to think about... Oops.
In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowed to continue to break the rules for far longer than normal peoples would have been.
When facts get labeled as bias it's impossible to remove both from the classroom and still have a functional classroom.