If you mix lemon and milk and press it, you get a simple indian cheese (paneer)

It’s even worse because if you have an issue with the activation, your airbag is useless even though you are a customer.

But a security device should not come with a subscription, period. If you want to make the barrier of entry lower, offer differed payments.

If the restaurant is the only source of food around, what do you do then? Not eat?

It transpose into the fact that North American societies made car centric cities with poor public transit where many place that aren’t a city, you need a car to literally do everything.

And even cities cut budgets for public transit.

A simple example from a friend of mine. He makes an effort to go to work by public transit instead of taking his car.

If he takes his car, it’s a 10 minutes ride. If he takes public transit, it takes him an hour to get to work. I wouldn’t blame him for taking his car to get to work.

Let’s take the NHL for example. These are people at the top of their game. Then a few times in a decade, a 16-17 years old come in and is already better than the vast majority of all the NHL players.

In the chess world, some 8-9 years old beat some GrandMasters. Imagine being an old fart that studied hard to get the GM title, get obliterated by a kid.

It happens all the time.

Let’s transpose that to a new activity you’ve never done before, while that young kid has done it for a year a more already. For sure, you will get your ass handed to you, unless you are a natural talent of your generation.

I guess that rant is about this: if it’s not your livelihood, then who cares as long as you enjoy the activity and don’t hurt anyone (on purpose in case of contact/fighting sports)

Why not put a warning when connecting a Bluetooth headset instead of outright blocking it?

The PS5 already have Bluetooth capabilities that are limited artificially by Sony.

The sole reason for that is greed. It is dumb as hell that you need a Bluetooth dongle on a machine that has Bluetooth in order to use a Bluetooth headset of your choice.

Yeah, a lot of things that sucks when you are a kid are helpful when you are an adult.

I am the last kid of a family of 4 kids, so already there wasn’t much rules or discipline for me as the 3 other kids did a lot of things that my parents weren’t really stressed about a.lot.of.things anymore.

I would have appreciated more discipline to help me in my adult life as I struggled a lot through the beginning of my adult life. And still today, some bad habits remains.

I see myself in what you described. My parents aren’t dead, but they separated when I was 12. My mom was an alcoholic that couldn’t keep a job and wasn’t there most of the time and my father was absent.

So starting from 12 years old, I had to cook, clean and do the best I could with what I had. Sometimes, there wasn’t much food.

It fucked me up(generalized anxiety with bouts of light depression). I realize that now. I might never feel normal and that’s fine but I sometimes wish I had somewhat of a present parent in my life.

I was feeling cheeky and gave that one liner.

I haven’t watched the person in the OP post

With mental gymnastics better than what you see at the Olympics.

I have some troubles with this line of thought.

For a big majority of people, there isn’t simply a lot of options, or any options at all, to take the car less, or buy less over packaged items, or reduce the pollution footprint.

The corporations won’t offer any alternative unless legislations make these alternatives the right choice business wise.

So toothless legislation is a problem and the governing bodies absolutely have the lion share of responsibilities and the personal efforts are worthless without the support of the governing bodies.