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You put it back in the pot of honey, the thing is supposed ot perpetually sit in honey pot.

I don't like it either, just explaining how it's supposed to work.

All games are second person. Because second person is you we don't mention it because it would be boring, first and second person shooter or second and third person shooter. Don't have the same ring and wastes words. Technically top down and second person RTS would be long ass genre name.

Insurance provider in my area has premium discounts if I do certain things. If I get my boilers checked and serviced, it reduces my premium next year. And cases as dead branch falling, they have a form that I can fill up to send for review, however in reality they will wait for the annual home inspection before renewal to asses threat, but they would pay for dead branch to be removed.

A bloke down my street had a tree growing too close to electrical wire and he kept complaining to the electric company to trim the tree or risk a fire to no avail. Then he told this to the insurance and they sent a strongly worded letter prompting electrical company to fix it in 2 days.

Also I have some experience with flood risk underwriting in Malaysia, we'd pay to have Strom drains cleaned, and fix some supports for buildings who we'd deem flood prone, because fixing those would be a 1-2% cost of replacing the entire house.

Point being insurance providers definitely can and do spend money on preventative care. I guess US very strongly doesn't believe in that.

Some good news in these troubling times.

Medium was AI slop before AI slop.

Of course forming attachment to things that rest of the world might consider mundane is pretty normal and we all do it. Nothing unnatural or out of place for that and totally understandable. I understand sadness over a broken bowl. I worry that breaking of bowl is self inflicted.

In hindsight, I misunderstood OP's question. I think I understand and agree with your points.

I'm sorry to say this, and I know it's unpopular opinion, but there are healthier way to deal with emotions than breaking things. I know in your case it's perfectly valid and normal response. But in OP's case whacking things off the shelf, we have a choice not to lat emotions take you there. It's like an addict saying I can't help but steal for my hit. Its the same thing I can't help but whack things when I'm angry.

Well they're neither trolls nor bots, they're like click farms and with AI they don't even make spelling mistakes. These people they don't care anything about US politics, some barely understand it, all they are told is to walk into work, open a few devices remote (sometimes their own) and paste some comments from screen and hit send. Do captcha if prompted. They'd work for whoever is paying them that day. I think it's time to fight fire with fire, pay for fake accounts that spew love and tolerance onlinrvlm

From my dealings with Indian govt, more likely they'll abandon it at some point. But yes trusting a government is always a difficult task.

Only so much heat can be radiated away.

What governments should be requiring is, making bootloader unlockable and making firmware for all antennas, camera and buttons public. Realistically I think it's too much to hope from any government.

That being said this Sanchar Sarthi app doesn't look so bad at a glance. Looks like a okay ish attempt at giving population tools to fight identity theft and phishing/scamming with some questionable success. Also the app supposedly doesn't collect any data.

Yeah but in expanse it's implied global government through UN was formed first and then the colonies. So it wasn't a single country's colony.