It's a huge problem. Software engineers need to step up and say no to creating artificial barriers between the user and the device. Electronic and mechanical engineers should be making devices that are repairable.

In my workshop I have switched to buying old industrial tools that don't have embedded software. These machines were built in a time when people expected to repair their own stuff and keep it working.

It's difficult to imagine a corporation whose ethics are more toxic than Apple but everyone seems to be following their lead and jumping on this mendacious bandwagon.

Thank you Greta for pointing out what a toxic influence Americans are. They have created disasters everywhere they go. Fuck the British as well.

Fill to the brim with turds

Right. It's perfectly normal to have difficulty sleeping. We often don't know why and that's okay too. In time it will pass, as all things do.

I've heard people advance the argument that since the self cannot be shown to exist, 'free will' is also absent and we can absolve ourselves of responsibility for our actions. I don't believe in the Judeo-Christian conception of free will but I still want to be involved in my decisions and choices, even if that is limited to an awareness.

• Sleep and wake at the same time every day.
• Wake early.
• Avoid caffeine after mid day.
• Cool temperature bedroom as you go to sleep.
• Avoid stimulation immediately prior to sleep e.g. screens, intense exercise, arguments.
• Make the bedroom a place of rest exclusively, no screens, noise, etc.
• If sleep is elusive don't stay in bed, go do something and come back later to try again.
• Worrying about sleep only makes sleep more difficult.
• Don't use alcohol or drugs to help sleep except very briefly to get over a hump. Of the benzodiazepine class, zopiclone is effective for short periods to re-establish a sleep pattern.

The self as an illusion is an interesting concept to play with. We think of ourselves as identities so that we can operate socially. However when one examines the moment to moment experience of consciousness the self is nowhere to be found.

Delusional

It's interesting because the guy looks like a genius but he's doing something really dumb.

He fought back by blocking the fists with his face, who is the bigger chad?

These cars like to party