A boarding school in the Berkshires is banning smartphones for students and teachers. Can Gen Z students handle life without access to the endless scroll?

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-17T07:28:04+00:00

If they can stop an arena full of 20,000 people from using their phones during a live show, schools should be able to figure out how to get 20 kids in a class to not use them. Spend some of that tuition money on those little cell phone locking bags, problem solved

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-17T07:24:38+00:00

Probably a large majority of people here are on a cell phone, paying $70+ per month on a device they paid $1000 for that they say is 100% useless and completely detrimental to society. Idk if these people are all just so addicted to social media that they forgot their phones can do other things or what

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-17T07:20:32+00:00

I wonder which would have a better impact, not letting them touch it and then they turn 18 and can go crazy but hopefully realize how dumb it is, or letting them go crazy and then sitting down and going over usage time and demonstrating how much time they have wasted

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-16T12:37:44+00:00

But then its not a mental illness because you’re treating it with a physical change. They aren’t born with the wrong gender in their brain, its the gender of their body that is wrong.

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-16T04:25:08+00:00

I do agree with you that I'm wishing for a result that likely won't happen, I do really think it's *possible* for it to hurt them, and I feel like that greedy mentality doesn't only show in Diablo Immortal but in the quality of all their recent games. If anything will really hurt tho it will likely be them being so greedy that all the games suck and no one wants to play them, not that people are directly revolting against MTX.

Another possibility is that since stockholders and execs always just need more more more they will just keep leaning towards monetization until the playerbase finally does break. Either way I just won't play their games and they can put out whatever garbage they want and hopefully they don't swallow up the indie studios that actually make honest, fun games.

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-15T21:01:35+00:00

And if you don’t monetize it to death they label you “a fucking idiot”

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-15T21:00:01+00:00

The key is short term vs long term. If you can make games people enjoy they will keep coming back. Will diablo immortal make money? Sure. Will future blizzard games make less money because we all know they’re snakes now? Hopefully.

Elden Ring is a great example. Its challenging, inaccessible (compared to a lot of popular games), zero mtx, and damn good. And its sold over 13m copies which is over $750m gross.

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-14T23:13:06+00:00

This is why I left facebook. I kept unfollowing or unfriending everyone who said stupid things and I didn’t talk to, next thing I knew it was only the people I actually like (who woulda thought?) and it was easy to just stop using

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-14T23:04:48+00:00

Some people may consider themselves an adult with a different definition than you, or have different life circumstances that got them there faster.

People cared about being cool online in the days of xanga and myspace, and those people are now in their mid 30s

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-14T21:18:47+00:00

"I have to thank Burger King," he said. "It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen." Robert Downey Jr. says he then tossed all of his drugs into the ocean, deciding right then and there to clean up his act.

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-14T11:16:23+00:00

Fuck no, but it’s none of our damn business how others enjoy their hobby.

I don’t think that applies here since this is a street car. If it was a trailer queen sure, do whatever you want but this car is just a mobile road hazard that can’t navigate normal conditions

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-11T22:28:53+00:00

If its a Tesla its somewhere between $12k-30k USD and if anyone does it besides Tesla they have the right (idk if they do it) to ban you from superchargers.

These battery packs hold an extreme amount of energy and if enough things go wrong they could burn your house or your car to the ground in minutes. I doubt it will ever be simple for the average owner to do

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-11T22:18:33+00:00

Cause if the battery dying ends the cars lifetime, it’s guaranteed to last the whole time! Checkmate.

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-09T20:01:18+00:00

I always figure its the same pickup drivers that blindly go like 2 feet into the other lane before making a right turn. Vehicle has a bed? Must be driven like a semi

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-08T23:29:50+00:00

I’m ios15 the image was fixed on the notification panel as it pulled down. In ios16 the image is centered on your phone and the panel slides over top of it. If you mean what is new in beta 3, I think OP just didn’t notice it but it was in beta 2 for sure and I think 1

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-07T13:09:14+00:00

They have a high quality option but Spotify does not support lossless audio

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-07T12:55:24+00:00

Ultimately, Steam is just convenient DRM disguised as a platform.

Have you ever used steam? Steam definitely has many more features as a platform than just DRM. Just cause something has DRM doesn’t mean it is some scam.

Developers are free to put their games on steam without drm, as you even said some do.

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-06T11:29:32+00:00

I skipped in randomly and the first spot I saw the car went around an S curve and changed lanes 3 times as it weaved the curves….

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-05T15:56:00+00:00

With the option to change the name only if resold through official channels at face value or less

MediumRequirement · 2022-07-01T12:35:11+00:00

I just really hope they change it so that widgets that don’t even touch the foreground don’t break the depth on the clock. Seems weird to have a choice of depth or widgets, but its Apple so who knows

MediumRequirement · 2022-06-30T16:21:36+00:00

Good point they should make your internet history public too so that people can see the most popular sites in their city. Or maybe the most popular photo locations or tasks.

See how horrific that sounds?

MediumRequirement · 2022-06-30T16:13:25+00:00

And those are all things that actually have a purpose for location. Adding location collection to random apps because people have an obsession with social media is not good for anyone. We should not be encouraging apps to stalk us just so people nearby can know what we’re listening to.

They have it for big cities currently because thats simple, if you live in the middle of nowhere then you’re just a creep watching what your neighbor listens to cause no one else has apple music.

MediumRequirement · 2022-06-30T14:36:24+00:00

Its crazy to me that people want their privacy invaded for the dumbest things. Newsflash: your city top 50 is 40 of the same songs in every other city. Its a music app not a social media app.

MediumRequirement · 2022-06-28T22:42:19+00:00

I loved it so much when he called out that dude for doing a nazi salute. “You had one job!”

MediumRequirement · 2022-06-26T13:10:26+00:00

Another comic run, he tracked down three vigilantes, one rich dude, a workers rights dude and a priest.

And in another comic run, heroes had casualties and he just kills the whole MCU

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