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All the browser settings are also stored there, too. I turned all the AI stuff off, then the next time I booted up my PC the AI was back. Turned it off again. Same thing the next time I logged back on...

I finally looked into it and it was because I had firefox set to clear the cache on shutdown.

It can fall under the same umbrella. Unrealistic beauty standards being set by the "rich", who some people look up to as role models. If there were something that you could do that you might be able to afford, like botox or lip fillers, that you believe would make you more beautiful, closer to your role model... If that sort of thing matters to you, then yeah, you might go for it. I can even take the same analogy of watches above, because there are definitely cheap imitation versions of the gaudy diamond-encrusted ones.

I was sort of thinking more like this though with respect to extreme alterations...

It's definitely a status thing, but I think the extreme it's been taken to has more to do with an erosion and warping of reasonable beauty standards than anything. More of an act of "because I can" than anything. I think a lot of the people who you look at and think "what the fuck" actually think they are making themselves more beautiful and attractive. I don't think someone who has everything and can get whatever they want would purposely make themselves look grotesque, but I'm neither rich, nor a psychologist, so maybe I'm totally wrong...

It's kind of like how there's a gaudy stupid looking hyper-expensive version of everything, like those giant hideous watches with diamonds encrusted on every surface... Someone think's it's beautiful or shows status, but most of us probably just think it looks stupid.

The Bogdanoffification has been happening for a while...

Part of me wonders what's next... But that likely won't be for a very long time, as USB C seems to be pretty good (at least for power-delivery and some decently high speed data transfer), lacking in customer complaints (as far as I'm aware).

I remember getting my first wireless charger with my Galaxy S10e and thinking "This is the future, you'll never have to plug your phone in again!"... But that certainly hasn't come to fruition, so I'll refrain from making bad predictions lol.

Thanks! Also a bit of fun directly responding to the post before it. I was ultimately inspired by the "allure of the pine forest" post from a bit ago, thinking "Hey, I have some photos that look just like this..."

I think I am going to have fun with this (photo from a ~1999 PDA camera module [original resolution])

I am so glad that the USB people got USB C right... I have so many memories of the micro-USB ports on my old phones being the most absolute asinine garbage.

I remember seeing my very first USB C port in 2015, it was on a friend's new Google Nexus 6P phone, and we were sitting in a hotel room in Florida somewhere... I ended up buying a 6P in August 2016. it was my first smartphone.

What phone do you have? It's nice to see people who keep their phones around. It's crazy how much progress was made in the phone world from ~2015 to 2019, but my phone from 2021, a similar 4 year age gap, feels just the same as phones made today. Truly a massive plateau.

Also, 2019 being 6 years ago is giving me serious vertigo lol

Pub cheese would like a word.

For a time in middle school, my brother's personality could be summed up by "Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919"... He learned it in a book somewhere and thought it was the funniest thing and just brought it up all the time, drew pictures and comics of it, and just generally was a molasses-themed menace.

I've been awakened from my house-hunting slumber by a house that has everything I want, and is actually somewhat affordable (compared to other similar properties, but still, yeesh this market)... Except it looks like it hasn't been cleaned in about 40 years. Going to an open house tomorrow. In all the photos, every single window and door is wide open, so I'm expecting maybe some kind of smell that might change my opinion, but it looks like it wouldn't be too much effort to clean it up and finally move up from my tiny apartment... I'll probably get outbid by 30% like the last couple times, but I won't know until I try!

Also, I think you might be hard-pressed to find anyone who would consider sugary cake sponge to be "bread". (Something something Ireland's supreme court ruled that Subway's bread isn't legally bread for tax purposes due to its high sugar content)

It'd be like layering up some sourdough slices with sweet sugary icing slathered between them, most people probably wouldn't call that a cake.

It wasn't super relevant to the story, but yeah, I could just browse the files right on their PC, definitely a "Not intending to share it for free" kind of situation, completely devoid of any authentication or security.