It's very complex and depends on everyone's life situation, I've had money issues in the past, I was stressed but at that time I had many friends and family close which made things ok. Now I am more successful and live abroad, but loneliness kills me, even though I have everything I dreamed of, I think back at the times I was "poor" and I was happier. I also tend to compare myself more with my successful friends and that makes me also a bit jealous. I don't think money will make you happy because there is always someone who has more and there will be always be better things you can't afford. Also we get used to everything fast, you will get used to your "Ferraris" at some point.. What makes you happy is having nice people you love around you and finding a purpose in life.
I think the hard part is to find a way to make it part of your daily life. I've really been enjoying my Quest 3, though at the same time it's kind of just there unless I need something that only it can do. The way forward is probably to make these devices get out of the way enough to just "be there" all of the time. Google Glass is the closest thing I can think to a device profile/size that would make this work.
People say that porn was what made VHS popular, but that was a secondary effect. Relatively cheap tech licensing meant there were more (and more affordable) VHS compatible devices out there, which got the content ball rolling (both published and home-movie content) with a fair chunk of initial momentum.
Vision Pro does nothing unique for them to license in that way – if VR video content is what someone wants a device like this for, they will use it to view existing VR video content that already plays on other devices.
My Ph.D. work was on a robot called Uranus. Let's just say it was the butt of many jokes. Like when my advisor was fixing it once, and I said "get your head out of Uranus!"
Not quite the same ring as the original title of "NASA's Webb Rings in the Holidays with the Ringed Planet Uranus", but the rings are off a bit from your normal planet, so maybe that's OK?
> Greater time spent on social networking websites led to higher psychological distress, an unmet need for mental health support, poor self-rated mental health, and increased suicidal ideation. In conclusion, greater time spent on online social networking promotes self-harm behavior and suicidal ideation in vulnerable adolescents.
> In September 2021, Bytedance announced it was making several changes to its algorithm and user interface in China, limiting children to just 40 minutes a day, introducing a Youth Mode for under 14s, and preventing the app being accessible to children between 10pm and 6am.
The astute reader will note that China has no such concerns for children outside of China, to the contrary, encouraging them to spend as much time on the app as possible.
We muslims do (for muslims not non-muslims), and also advocate for a ban on such addictive and life-wasting technologies like TikTok in our countries. And guess what, it worked for millenia and still works to a great extent, even when there is no longer a ban in law in many so-called 'muslim' countries. Unlike the American Prohibition which didn't.
In Turkey there is no ban on drinking. They eat halal meat but still drink freely. And do you have any examples of Muslim countries that advocate ban on addictive life wasting tech? It is such a broad term.
I live in Turkey actually! It is probably the most heavily and forcefully secularized Muslim country in the world. (Ataturk killed ~half a million people for his secular reforms, Islamic alphabet got abolished, European dress code literally became law, religious clothing got prohibited, religion schools closed, scholars executed & prosecuted and Islamic prayer call Adhan was banned for straight 18 years).
It's free to drink here, but drugs are banned. Only a very small minority drinks alcohol in my region, I have no relatives (including me) I know of that ever drank. Drugs/weed/marijuana are horrible things no one ever wants in my entire social circle, I don't think I have ever seen a user of such substances in my entire life IRL. Western and some coastal cities drink more and there's more drug activity too (they're less religious too).
From here, it’s hilarious to see Westerners thinking prohibition is impossible and preaching against it. Muslims have been very successful in prohibition of all kinds of mind-altering substances since 15 centuries. Compare this with the failed American Prohibition. There are more factors at play than what the law says. What do you believe will happen if you drink alcohol in secret, away from the eyes of the State? Muslims believe this will have consequences in afterlife. Atheists don't. Many Christians believe they'll be saved and forgiven by God as long as they are Christian.
> A 2012 study suggested that belief in hell decreases crime rates, while belief in heaven increases them, and indicated that these correlations were stronger than other correlates like national wealth or income inequality.
Muslims here do advocate for a ban on harmful technologies including but not limited to TikTok. As an example which made its way into law, pornography websites are banned (at ISP level).
I have only been to one Muslim country (where I am from) and the state of general public morals is really bad when compared to UK (where I am for work). Given we don't drink and do most of other drugs (cigarette is considered less harmful and not Haram for example) i often wonder why still our values and morals are so crappy in general. My personal conclusion is that forgiveness is the greatest loophole my religion has. People do whatever and believe it will all be forgiven.
There probably should either be no ban on anything for anyone for any age (only your immediate care takers could stop you) or the bans should be public wide. I don't understand how alcohol/drugs above 18 are not harmful or way less harmful.
Kinda. Note that in most cases even the least religious would not eat pork, which is strictly prohibited. For others, definition of Halal is a bit vague, e.g. Kosher is considered halal by most.
What's the feeling about Khat? I don't know the numbers in general but I was in a specific region and saw that many Muslim men there were quite addicted to it. Is it actually Halal?
