Pleasure and happiness aren't the same thing, but most people chase pleasure while calling it happiness. Pleasure is the quick hit—good food, sex, scrolling your phone—it feels great but fades fast. Happiness is something else entirely, and what it means changes drastically depending on how smart you are. Less intelligent people tend to equate happiness with basic pleasures and getting their needs met. Average intelligence ties it to status, money, keeping up with others. But higher intelligence complicates everything: some people find meaning in ideas, creativity, or purpose; others overthink themselves into misery, seeing through all the goals that used to motivate them. Intelligence gives you better tools to understand happiness but can also strip away the simple certainties that make it easier to actually feel happy. You gain clarity but lose the blissful ignorance that makes chasing straightforward goals satisfying.
which one would make you more angry: 1) being mugged in full daylight in an area with low crime rate (maybe near where you live) 2) being mugged walking in a dark alley somewhere in the "bad" part of the town?
How about if you chose going to 2) knowing very well that muggings are a real possibility and you should probably not go there?
It's not about killing experiments. It's about things that were advertised as the next big thing with fanfare to not be properly maintained and eventually killed even though they had a lot of users. That's the problem.
This is not the first time twittet screwed developers. If you're olf enough to remember they did this shit in their early day when they had the real possibility of being social media's message bus. Corporate greed took over and capitalism won / they pulled the plug on developer apis. Up until that point they flourished. Now with new wind in their sails generated by 45 and more recently by the technoking they have forgot the lesson and doing the same mistake. Twitter is nothing without its ecosystem. They are killing the same env they need to survive.
I like grapheneOS and it's streets ahead from any other effort in the area. The problem i have with it is that it's hard/impossible for your average joe to install it. A small thing but big when it comes to privacy in general
Ha! If you think that apple does not work with governments all around the world and that you can take their word at face value you're going to have a bad time.