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[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Just because people aren't ranting and raving about it like you doesn't mean it's a nothing burger and nobody is taking it seriously. You mentioned uncomfortable truths and decisions that need to be made? Well, what truth is that, and what decisions? Because people way smarter than both of us combined have spent years dealing with these issues and nobody has come up with a solution yet.

Nobody disagrees that it's a problem and we need to do more. But I actually have first-hand experience with this sort of thing, and the reason you're getting pushback is because you come in guns blazing like there's an obvious solution that the world refuses to accept. So come on then, what's the move here?

Curves is shocked you would ask him that. Making up solutions people can consider isn’t as easy as making up people props to back up your point, OK?

Remember, facts are technicalities. There are hard questions that need to be answered and tough decisions that need to be made. Without raising taxes, because curves complains about that, too.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

This I don’t understand. Nearly 30 years of owning cell phones and have never broken anything.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/swnsdig...-week/%3famp=1

Consider yourself lucky. 8.3 billion dollars were spent by Americans fixing cracked screens last year.

Another study shows 1 in 3 Americans are currently using a phone with a cracked screen.

[Barnet Flame]

Maybe its their glasses that are cracked.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

https://www.google.com/amp/s/swnsdig...-week/%3famp=1

Consider yourself lucky. 8.3 billion dollars were spent by Americans fixing cracked screens last year.

Another study shows 1 in 3 Americans are currently using a phone with a cracked screen.

I have a couple strips of scotch tape holding mine together. Works great.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

https://www.google.com/amp/s/swnsdig...-week/%3famp=1

Consider yourself lucky. 8.3 billion dollars were spent by Americans fixing cracked screens last year.

Another study shows 1 in 3 Americans are currently using a phone with a cracked screen.

That seems about right 1 in 3 people including yourself Suck at Life

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

This I don’t understand. Nearly 30 years of owning cell phones and have never broken anything.

Same here. About 28 years and the worst I’ve had is the odd scratch that’s hardly visible.

[Ped]

I had one break; it slipped out of my pocket when I got out of my BIL's truck, and he backed up over it by mistake. It still worked, but then I had it in a shirt pocket, and I bent over on a tile floor, and it slipped out and shattered it.

[BigThief]

The no break people are obviously just low effort that don't put the work in.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by BigThief

The no break people are obviously just low effort that don't put the work in.

Or we’re just exceedingly careful.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Or we’re just exceedingly careful.

Sounds like a blast

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Sounds like a blast

We avoid explosions

[Locke]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

All I want is an authoritarian state that unilaterally suppresses and punishes the things I find undesirable whilst simultaneously providing me with unfettered freedom to do as I please. God it’s like some of you don’t even grasp basic politics.

Come on now. Gilead's not so bad1

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

It's really just acknowledging the futility of the situation.

You know...'powderjunkie' as a username could be construed as something not so 'skiing related.'

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

This I don’t understand. Nearly 30 years of owning cell phones and have never broken anything.

I pretty much crack the screen on the first day of getting a new phone and then just live with it for years.

[SutterBrother]

I tend to drop things then kick them when trying to recover them, so I Otterbox up my devices.

https://www.otterbox.com/

I know Apple spends millions on making the devices as slim and light and shiny as they can, but f-them. I live in the real world.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

https://www.google.com/amp/s/swnsdig...-week/%3famp=1

Consider yourself lucky. 8.3 billion dollars were spent by Americans fixing cracked screens last year.

Another study shows 1 in 3 Americans are currently using a phone with a cracked screen.

It's not luck.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

It's not luck.

You're just so amazing.

[Geraldsh]

I have broken two phones. It’s a coincidence that they were both work phones, I swear.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

You're just so amazing.

You only wish I cared about your recognition.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Nobody disagrees that it's a problem and we need to do more. But I actually have first-hand experience with this sort of thing, and the reason you're getting pushback is because you come in guns blazing like there's an obvious solution that the world refuses to accept. So come on then, what's the move here?

There isn’t an easy answer or solution to addiction (that might actually be unsolvable). That said, I don’t get a sense that the OP or many people are actually lamenting that we’re not solving addiction but rather that we as a society seem to now accept and tolerate the open degeneracy of addiction in public spaces and in that regard place a higher value on the the freedoms and rights of addicts above public safety.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

There isn’t an easy answer or solution to addiction (that might actually be unsolvable). That said, I don’t get a sense that the OP or many people are actually lamenting that we’re not solving addiction but rather that we as a society seem to now accept and tolerate the open degeneracy of addiction in public spaces and in that regard place a higher value on the the freedoms and rights of addicts above public safety.

You don’t like when someone protects your freedoms and rights?

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

There isn’t an easy answer or solution to addiction (that might actually be unsolvable). That said, I don’t get a sense that the OP or many people are actually lamenting that we’re not solving addiction but rather that we as a society seem to now accept and tolerate the open degeneracy of addiction in public spaces and in that regard place a higher value on the the freedoms and rights of addicts above public safety.

So what, lock em up and throw away the key?
These people are arrested, nonstop. If that worked we'd have never gotten to this point