That and expropriation/eminent domain, etc. Even if you pay your taxes, if the government needs it, they have processes to take it.
I'm not saying it's an inherently bad thing, but it's another one of those important things to realize is already present if anyone wants to argue for/against certain government reforms.
I certainly used to, and used to think it was essentially gender neutral, but again - in certain contexts like a male dominated classroom, the women/nb students could easily feel excluded by it. Outside of that, I also recognized my trans friends had a lot of thoughtless people intentionally misgendering them on the regular just to be mean, and finding small ways to reduce that reinforcement felt better than not. It was also surprisingly not that tough for me to adopt the more neutral language, so if it's a subtle help with no skin off my back it just seems very win-win.
I know it's controversial, but moving away from "guys" when I address a group and more or less defaulting to "they" when referring to people I don't know.
They was practical, because I deal with so many students exclusively via email, and the majority of them have foreign names where I'd never be able to place a gender anyways if they didn't state pronouns.
Switching away from guys was natural, but I'm in a very male dominated field and I'd heard from women students in my undergrad that they did feel just a bit excluded in a class setting (not as much social settings) when the professor addresses a room of 120 men and 5 women with "Guys", so it just more or less fell to the side in favour of folks/everyone.
Getting really speculative, but maybe Infinite Scrolling and similar UX design patterns. I think we learned it was dangerous pretty early in, but I have a feeling there isn't currently a widespread understanding of just how badly things like infinite scrolling shortcircuit parts of the brain and cause issues with attention and time regulation in large populations.
If I was more researched on it, I might include infinite short-form content feeds of almost any type to be honest, which may just be another way of saying social media.
Conversely, if smart watches with accurate health monitoring become cheap and commonplace it might drastically improve health outcomes by motivating people to see doctor's when needed for subtle heart issues that would otherwise go unchecked.
For anything that isn't private, ChatGPT has been great for this. Not for everything, but pretty helpful for internal consistency checks or providing a more focused revision list.
Yeah, just posted another comment, but I have my bottle flipping trick. If it's upright before the afternoon, I didn't take it. I take it, and flip the bottle upside down. Then if I see the bottle upside down after noon, I flip it upright.
I still have days where I need to try to mentally piece together, "Did I drink water? How thirsty was I? Was I really thirsty, and just drank to hydrate and NOT take my pill or did I drink to take the pill and forgot to flip it? Did I take it and just forget to eat? How much have I been singing on repeat this morning?"
I'll just add that routine is in itself a major challenge - for me, I don't have routines as much as I have laying things out in a way that reminds me to do things regularly. For my meds, I just take it once in the morning, but the one routine I try my best to maintain is flipping the pill bottle upside down. If it's upside down, there's a high chance I either took it, or forgot to flip it before bed, but it's a visual reminder so that I don't need to actively remember to take them on routine, but if I see the pill bottle in a state, I know what action to take.
That's probably one of the hardest things I've seen family members try to understand. I'm not trying to imply anything about you, this is just a related example, but I've had family members see my ADHD family members as just being lazy or intentionally ignoring things, or thinking they're just selfish or whatever. The problem is, even if it's beneficial, a part of ADHD is not having control over where your memory and focus is being put. You may want something, but that doesn't mean you'll sustain attention or effort to achieve it, and conversely you may place it in places you really don't care about to a very consuming degree...
If I forget to eat, a few spoons of peanut butter seems to work pretty well. I do my best to have some.kind of hard boiled eggs, little protein heavy pucks of oatmeal in the freezer, or protein bars to grab. It really makes a big difference (Vyvanse).
In Canada, we play this game where we complain that all employees (aside from "contract workers" in gig work) make minimum wage and don't live off of tips like our American counterparts, then someone complains that minimum wage still isn't livable so tips are still important, then someone retorts that this only means everyone in minimum wage needs tipping or nobody needs tipping, which usually ends up in a lot of poop being slinged around until you get guilted into tipping before receiving any service.
I'm at least happy to see some decent, really cheap (<$100 CAD) smart phones popping up that are competent enough to work with, but it's still such a single point of failure for so many aspects of life right now. Not even not having a phone, but a dead battery (and inability to swap it out with a backup like you used to), spontaneously breaking, losing cell service at an inopportune time to access your virtual tickets and things.
I don't mind smart phones, but the single point of failure for so much is really not good.
Interesting - I've been thinking about trying to decentralize lately, and been having fun collecting my data from sites to analyze my own behaviours in data and build unique recommendation engines for myself and was recently thinking about trying to build a crawler and DIY search engine for myself. Any tips/pitfalls on getting started with that?
That and expropriation/eminent domain, etc. Even if you pay your taxes, if the government needs it, they have processes to take it.
I'm not saying it's an inherently bad thing, but it's another one of those important things to realize is already present if anyone wants to argue for/against certain government reforms.