> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!!

I used to hold this same opinion. Unfortunately, times have changed and now everyone is constantly in their phones, isolated in their own universes, typically with earbuds or headphones. At least the obnoxious speaker dude is present; in a shared physical reality with the world around him. A lesser evil.

This is why god invented bone conducting headphones

That’s still not a shared experience.

> And the research was out there! Does everybody only read this single Harvard literature review? Does nobody read journals, or other meta studies, or anything? Did the researchers from other institutions whose research was criticized not make any fuss?

They did. But Ancel Keys, one of the bribed researchers, author of the infamous seven countries study that laid the groundwork against fat made it his life’s mission to discredit anyone who researched sugar. He effectively made the topic academic suicide. His primary target, that served as a warning example for others was his contemporary in the U.K. John Yudkin.

Because it's BS. The rules are secondary to someone's political agenda.

I agree. It's objectively nonsense with regards to AirPods and Apple Watches in particular. Both are extremely dominant in their respective categories for many years at this point. Objectively, Apple is not alienating its "long-time customers". Someone raging about his perceived wastefulness of AirPods is out of touch with the vast majority of people.

But people love to rage and be enraged on the internet. So anyone pointing the vacuity of the enraged is downvoted and cast aside.

America is founded on the principle of human selfishness. People are selfish, so let’s harness it instead of pretending that people are utopian selfless creatures.

More recently, selfishness has taken second seat to hurting the “other” (whatever other happens to be) even to the detriment of one’s own self interests. America is not built for this.

It could also just evolve ?

Maybe you don’t understand the role of the BLS or what it does. Maybe you’ve been sold a bill of goods that it is supposed to be an infallible oracle, when it is, in fact, a useful measurement device with limitations that have been well known for decades.

That Signal data doesn’t just transfer like any other data on iOS when upgrading phones is seriously dumb.

Wrap it in whatever security deemed necessary (or make migration/backup opt-in), but just let the blob copy over like every other app on the planet.

This cumbersome backup nonsense is a senseless no more secure bandaid for a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Up until yesterday it was vaccines. Now it’s acetaminophen, and nobody is batting an eyelash at the about face.

The discussion about vaccines has been toxified in blue states - may as well throw out another reason to keep the crunchy skeptics on board.

One more app to replace basic social etiquette and community that seem to be inexorably dissolving thanks to people too preoccupied with their screens.

Well the issue is that each place has a different etiquette for this. At least this gives a kind of commonly agreed-upon framework

Like a printed sign.

There is ample evidence that hallucinations are incurable in the best extant model of intelligence - people.

Someday we'll figure out how to program computers to behave deterministically so that they can complement our human abilities rather than badly impersonate them.

Getting down to the level of a median helpful human with the same knowledge would be a massive step forward.

Getting down to the level of a moderately humble expert taking the time to double check would be almost as good as solving it.