I think it is funny that when I first heard about Apple Intelligence, and in particular the plans for a "smarter Siri," my reaction is that if true that is something that could cause me to switch to an iPhone. A year later it appears that presentation was all vaporware and that is creating a kerfuffle.#

Looks like the battery optimization of my Pixel 7a is now re-calibrated so that charging stops at 80%. It looks like after ever monthly update the charge optimization will re-calibrate, which requires the phone to be charged to 100%. #

I don't think the majority of the human species has learned well the lessons of World War II. The fundamental lessons of World War II is that humanity has the willingness and the capability to destroy itself. In other words, humanity can, and without the required maturity will, cause it's own extinction. The United States emphatically demonstrated this in dropping nuclear bombs on Japan. For most of my life we have lived in the fear of this knowledge, aka the fear of nuclear war, but we have not really learned the lessons about how we need to change. Wars and weapons of war are rooted in fear. Greed is really driven by fear. I think that fear is driven by seeing ourselves as apart from the other, which I think is the point of the story in Genesis 3.#