I been using android since version 2 and never encountered this. I guess it depends on the device a lot, as I've worked a lot in the mobile industry I've tended to have the more powerful devices.

Which makes sense, smart phones being small computers and all, the slower ones are slow sometimes and the faster ones tend to be faster.

Androids diversity has always been it's strength and weakness

Be me

Sitting at my station in the shuttle bay waiting for someone to need a shuttle

Two people on the deck below me activate their replicators at the same time

My console explodes, tearing off an arm and burning half my uniform off, and skin too.

Stagger out the door looking for help.

See someone in the new medical uniforms, so glad they changed that so I don't accidentally ask a botanist for help.

It's a betazoid psychiatrist

Die and get fired out of the ship in a torpedo.

Probably shouldn't have left the pony lying about where a wolf can find it then.

"Humans are struggling to adjust" is not a good reason to shoot wolves.

It's a good reason for humans to do better at adjusting.

Well, if it isn't the Streisand effect in action.

Horrible local story becomes massive story because of the coverup.

Speaking from a therapist point of view...

Empathy is the ability to understand someone else's experience, to grasp something of what they're thinking, feeling, etc.

It doesn't automatically imply that you care, you can respond to that understanding of someone else's life with compassion, indifference or anything else.

The colloquial usage of the word empathy to mean "consideration and caring" is problematic as is oftentimes an imagining of how the observer would feel if they were in the difficult situation, rather than the useful version of understanding how the other person feels within that difficult situation.

Is that the one with the robots who challenge him to a dance contest?

Rhythm is futile?

Today I learnt my sexuality is USB

One person you're destined for by a grand design of the universe? No.

Someone you connect with on a deep level that goes beyond rational considerations and even emotional sensations? Yes, absolutely.

This is why it's possible to meet more than one in a lifetime. Timing is also a big part of it, I've met half a dozen people over the last thirty years who I would have spent my life with, where I was in my life at the time made all the difference of how those relationships played out.

I think you literally just described to secret to a content and fulfilled life.

My personal methods for this, may or may not work for others.

1. don't take personal responsibility for things you can not personally control. This is the source of despair.

2. choose where you get your information from carefully. If the source is pushing a particular version of events too strongly they're trying to get a reaction from you. Drop em.

3. Getting more than one source prevents being pulled too far in one direction. Having too many causes confusion and uncertainty. Two or three good sources of news is enough.

4. study history. Read about politics and events throughout all of human history. This gives you context and can be very soothing as you get a perspective broader than any single human life.

5. focus on yourself and your life. Is that improving? What small steps do you want to take to improve that?

6. drop the scripts you're given. You've been told what Your life should look like but it's rarely possible to meet those expectations and the news re-enforces this. Drop the scripts and live your own life based on what is possible and desirable for you.

There's probably more I could say here but that feels like the heart of it.

"Fake News"

There's been good and bad journalism for as long as there's been journalists

Silent? 😁