I think this phenomenon can be explained by understanding our frame of reference with respect to time when we’re high.

In normal time (NT), time registers fairly linearly from our perspective. Generally, each second feels about as long as the next and we’re able to measure our mood, emotions, experiences and how long they go on for with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

In high time (HT), time does not flow linearly from our perspective. One second could be as long as the next, or it could be slower. There’s no really way to tell. Even if you deliberately set a timer like I often do, the numbers on the dial don’t really tell the whole story.

And I think this is because you can perceive so much more while high. Those cymbals you don’t hear in when in NT. The way the clouds move in the painting that you don’t notice in NT. The micro expressions on your friend’s faces as you talk that you don’t notice in NT.

You start to perceive all these extra things. Things that have always been there but time forgot to highlight to you, because you were in the wrong sort of time.

So when you’re in the correct time, the HT, I think you start to measure time not in how many seconds flow from one to the next, but by how much you experience from one moment to the next.

Then when you start to think of the moments passing and the minutes passing too, you realise that you actually packed more moments into those minutes than you would have in NT – and if you had to normalise those HT moments with NT moments to make the moments last the same amount of time, what actually ends up happening is that the seconds and minutes end up being longer when translated into a linear time space.

I hope this makes sense, if not, I’ll try and draw it.

So what’s the idea here? Apple rolls out another extended version of RCS that’s proprietary as well?

The lot of them are fucking idiots. Sunak’s Conservatives don’t have a single redeeming quality.

RCS was meant to be a SMS replacement spec for carriers to implement but it never reached ubiquity like SMS did.

And of the carriers that rolled it out, not all of them rolled it out to the same spec either so they’re not even completely interoperable.

Then there’s the fact that many of the Google Messages features such as E2E encryption aren’t a part of the RCS Spec. They were built on top of it by Google.

And unless you’re Samsung, good luck on building a messaging app that’s interoperable with the Google version of RCS they use in messages.

In short, Google RCS runs through Google’s servers, not the carriers like it was designed for. As far as I see it, it’s just the Google version of iMessage.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-to-end-encryption-for-androids-default-sms-rcs-app/

If you want to download the actual RCS universal profile spec as defined by GSMA you can find it here, missing quite a few things from the Google version you see in Messages:

https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/

Idk about that. A healthy population seems like it would be great for the economy to me.

People can work at a higher standard for more of their lives. If we take into mental health, those hours worked will probably be a lot more productive too.

It may have been different if there were boots on the ground, sure. But I think their willingness to invade would have been severely diminished if they thought Europe could easily defend Ukraine without the assistance of the US.

Did you eat it?

“Hostile environment”

Tories gonna Tory

Would definitely go some way to explaining why morale in the police (the Met at least) has been terrible for years and experienced officers are leaving faster than new ones are joining.

Why do such a stressful job if you don’t even believe you’re ultimately making a difference?

I agree with your point on reducing our exploitation of the developing world, but do you think the current measures will actually achieve that? I think it'll only leave a gap there for other global manufacturers to fill and ultimately net exploitation of the developing world won't be impacted by this.

Now I don't want to argue that since there'll be exploitation regardless so it's better that "we" do it, but I think it would be better (from both a UK and EU perspective) to have European manufacturers to rely on those supply chains as they are at the moment, capture market share and exert influence on them to make them more ethical and sustainable, rather than let other global manufactures take that market where we're able to exert less influence on them to clean up their act.

Would it not be better to be slightly more pragmatic about this and positively incentivise the development of local supply chains rather than wash our hands of the exploitation (that will continue to go on) as long as it's someone else doing it?

Prefer mint for sure. What I like most about it is how reliable and unobtrusive it is.

I’ve had zero issues with getting any hardware or software up and running with it, and it just gets out of the way and lets me use my PC how I want.

Seeing the McLarens start so high up is thawing it my frozen, dead heart.