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I suspect people are just good at identifying incels

I remember a bunch of people seeming sincere about it, and a lot of money was wasted on it, including from companies like apple.

I never understood why. It was so obviously a doomed idea from day 1

The only amazing thing about the metaverse was that some people believed the hype, and that people paid to promote it could do it with a straight face.

I remember a lot of fanboys who just uncritically believe whatever the latest hype is. The problem for the metaverse is that those people move on quickly and are probaly all talking about "AI" nowadays

Kinda inverts inverted the causality of Netflix starting their own production and other companies pulling their licences. Netflix started their own production to survive the licences getting pulled, which was inevitable as soon as Netflix looked profitable.

They didn't get greedy, they probably started out greedy, ran a good service to grab market share, then had to make moves to defend against the predictable greed of the incumbents.

It's greedy turtles all the way down

Here's a study that seems to support your theory a bit: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5885842/

It's both a behavioural issue and a complex bodily disorder with many external factors...

Biologically, weight is pretty much an effect of calories in and calories out. If you lock someone up and give them too little food, they'll generally get thin. The body can't create fat if you don't feed it and it can't work without burning energy. Physics.

But losing weight when you're not locked in a cell with someone else controlling your food availability is really hard. Not eating when you're hungry is hard. The facility of getting healthy food that makes it easier is socio-economical. etc

It's like running a marathon is "just" about starting to run and not stopping until you reach the finish line. It's trivial on one level, really hard on another. It's simple physics AND a complex web of genetic factors, motivation, knowledge, upbringing, etc

So most people are technically and biologically capable of losing weight, but most people are also practically and statistically not very successful at it.

Most popular diets work under controlled conditions, for the people who adhere to them; but most popular diets also don't work in practice, as it's too hard for people to diet for the rest of their life.

Behavioural ≠ easy

It sounds like you might have some unresolved issues from childhood. Your family didn't respect your autonomy so now you're maybe hyper vigilant about getting controlled by others?

Not being able to compromise even on small things like where to eat seems like it could become an issue. Do you really care about every little detail like that or are you just in constant defense mode?

There's a lot of nice people out there you could safely compromise with on smaller things for mutual benefits, so it can be worthwhile to work on.

Being aware of it and examining it like you are now is a good first step.

Perhaps you could try to compromise on something tiny, with someone who hasn't abused you, and see how it feels?

Yeah it's not hugely effective

If the permanent members of the security council didn't have veto powers they A: wouldn't have joined, and B: would go "you and what army?" if people voted to force them to do something.

It's just a way to keep a high level discussion going.

On biometrics btw: they're worse against police who could force you to unlock the phone, but if your worry is someone seeing your pin, biometrics fixes that

You can restart the phone or activate lockdown mode before going to bed and be safe from someone sneaking your finger print

You can want or need privacy without it being nefarious in some way