kassiopaea

There's no president of the world yet.

I think that you don't think that there's any meaningful difference between "spiritual" and "supernatural " then you're missing the point.

I used to be an atheist anti-christian skeptic type that didn't understand my partner's beliefs at all, because why have beliefs if you know they aren't real? sugar_in_your_tea's above quote from Equal Rites actually fits it really well.

Your beliefs have an impact on how you act, and your acts have an impact on the world. Therefore I choose to live by a set of guiding principles and interact with the world in a way that fits what I want it to be like. The whole point is that you can only influence what you interact with, but also you never know what you'll interact with.

That said, I think that people who claim to be able to influence the lives of others without interacting with them directly are on ego trips.

However, I also don't think that anyone can say anything for certain, as we live in a universe driven by probability, where "spooky action at a distance" is an actual scientific phenomenon.

tl;dr: Spiritual describes how people interact with the world but supernatural describes hypothetical (meta)physical phenomena.

Damn, I checked the last of those boxes last year and I'm not even 30.

I've always hated that. I feel like I'm seeing it less and less on newer vehicles, though, so maybe manufacturers are also realizing that it's stupid as hell.

Or maybe it's just not worth the cost to have two different but mostly identical versions of a very expensive and highly integrated modern taillight housing for different markets.

It wasn't just the norm for websites, it was the norm for every single kind of established platform that offered "free" content; see TV, radio, and even our goddamn public roadways.

Apple did not create an ad platform for the iPhone when it was introduced. The iAd platform was introduced in 2010 with the iPhone 4 as "mobile ads done right" (well after Google's acquisition of AdMob in 2009, and certainly after the iPhone launch in 2007). It was subsequently shut down in 2016.

Developers never needed to "hack" ways to put ads in mobile apps. Mobile ad platforms already existed at the time, and developers were happy to use them extensively once they realized that smartphones were becoming a truly mass-market product (just like TV advertising, imagine that).

"I blame RCA for television ads. If they hadn't made the first mass-market television set, we wouldn't have TV ads interrupting my morning cartoons!"

that's how you sound rn

Well, it was the norm for websites, why would anyone expect it to not transfer over to every other conceivable platform like it has today? The fact that Apple made the first device that allowed people to put adware on a device in your pocket is pure happenstance, and I'm not even sure how true that is given the existence of Blackberry and early Windows Mobile devices.

That said, have you ever heard of WildTangent? Because they've been around for a loooong time, and were really attractive to poor and stupid kids like me that really started using the internet circa 2005 and wanted to play computer games.

Again, what are you basing that on? Many websites, games, etc. that had traditionally only been accessible on a desktop/laptop were already primarily using ads for monetization at that point (I should know, I was using a lot of them). Blaming Apple for simply making the first handheld devices capable of running similar software makes absolutely zero sense.

How so? I went from Android to iPhone and one of the biggest reasons I kept it was the lack of consumer-hostile intrusive bullshit that seems to be everywhere on Google and Samsung products.

That's... not how cookies work. They're only accessible by the website that set them, and unless Lemmy starts embedding reddit content into its pages, there's zero way for Reddit to know that you're here.

I've never seen a gender-neutral restroom that wasn't just a one-person bathroom though...

See I've always been confused by that. Isn't "the second coming of Jesus" a bad thing? I was raised in a baptist household and my family was always harping on about how we live in the end times and about different people that might be the antichrist.