Monied interests. It's a symptom of the system, give me a specific example and I can give you a specific group, but in general it's the trending direction of the system
IDK, I think in systems. Maybe it's an occupational hazard
Mac is genuinely a better experience. I say that as a user, as a dev, as someone who likes to throw their laptop in a backpack and not have to worry about the charger. I like the Linux-lite os, I like the screens, I like the universally premium feel to their chassis.
But damn, have Macs gotten ridiculously overpriced. Paying 150% for something you can count on to be more polished? Fine. It's premium
But paying triple? I'd rather learn to tunnel into a desktop through vscode and get something thin, nice looking, and inexpensive enough to replace (even if the thermal properties are horrendous)
I'm more worried about the plastic, pesticides, degraded pharmaceuticals and heavy metals myself
The other thing you can do is reduce consumption. However you can, to whatever extent you can
Access to pornography lowers incidence of sexual assault
So it very much looks to be the other way around
I could do something similar with users, but I'm a bit hesitant to make that too easy - my main drive for doing this is to undo a lot of the problems caused by social media.
My belief is that echo chambers encourage extreme beliefs, and interacting with people who constantly push back against those beliefs will blunt them.
At the same time, it's more important to me that using it is more healthy for most users.
Maybe I'll do something like a 3-strike policy? Like if you ban users from the same site 3 times, it can unlock the feature and ask.
I'll put some thought into it. Also, I plan to do a build for iPhone, but I need to get a hold of a Mac and pay for the app store license... If the Android version gets any traction I'm sure that'll work itself out
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