If the way you practice your religion is standardized by an authority across several churches, it is organized religion. For example:
Catholic sects and Mormons are organized faiths. They have manuals for the priests to follow and you can go to the same one elsewhere and get mostly the same experience. Some small churches localized to a city are also organized.
Islam sects in the Middle east are usually organized between Sunni and Shia. To my knowledge, Islam is not organized in the USA even though the Imam might align with a sect, because there is no authority they report to or strict standard for their patrons.
Most Protestant churches are unorganized, and non-denominational are almost always unorganized because they are one-offs.
This is my informal understanding; I am not a religious scholar
Sometimes you need to take a step backward to go forward. By 'going back' to allowing third party stores and apps, you have introduced competition, and realistically, one of them becomes the defacto one that is easy for both developers and users. On my android, I have lots of sideloaded apps that come from different sources, however since F-droid allows you to connect lots of 'stores' to it, I only have one app store app, as I have connected 5 app repositiories to F-droid. This is a huge win, because most of my apps come from F-droid, but there are those few that require different repos to get, as well a the few that I can install without a store at all, by just installing the APK I grabbed from the official site.
Apple's store could allow these features, but since it undermines their anti-competitive practices, law has to come in to temporarily inconvenience you, so that your and everyone else's lives can be better. It'll just take some time though, because Apple goes out of their way to conform to new regulations as minimally as possible, to the point of completely missing the point of the regulation when possible.
I'm not sure where you are reading, but people are not free to rant in China. Many of my friends would lose privileges because they were foolish enough to openly speak poorly regarding certain topics, and suddenly they were banned from Wechat, which is equivalent to being banned from the internet, and from using money in noncash form. My sister was visiting and was dumb enough to get herself banned from way more services and she was scared she wouldn't be able to get back home. In a very few places, they check your social score to ensure that you aren't low-life enough to be barred from there too. I only spoke freely after checking an area for no cameras, so I always had all of my privileges, but me and a Chinese friend, after coming to the USA (I am not Chinese, only went there for school), hope we never end up back in China.
Regarding day to day life in the USA, I am unaffected by China.
There is no economic advantage of offering lower prices in the US medical sphere, as there is no way for a patient to know that you charge less than another provider. Most medical practices do not provide any form of costs until after a procedure except ones usually not covered by insurances, such as dental and chiro, which do offer transparent and low prices because they compete in the free market.
Head on the nail. I try to explain this to everyone who thinks we are heading to global collapse. AI isn't good enough to replace a person. It enables a person to replace a team. That will take awhile since, as cool and great AI is now, it is not yet as powerful and integrated yet for teams to be totally replaced. Only as fast as people naturally leave, so instead of hiring someone to replace that job, one guy inherits his teammates job and his own, but has more tools to do both. It sounds like a person is being replaced, but I've never worked anywhere where people weren't complaining about being understaffed. The budget likely wasn't cut, so now they can hire someone to do a different job. A job an idea-fairy wanted someone to do but they lacked the bandwidth. The old position is gone, but new ones have opened. It is the natural was of the world. We innovate, parts of our lives get easier, our responsibility scope increases, our life is full again. For a person, that translates to never feeling rich if they allow their standard of living to match their income, and for a company, that translates to scope increase as well if the company is growing, shown as either more job openings or more resources for the employees (obviously the opposite for both cases if a person/company is "shrinking")
Many jobs even most jobs don't work you at or near the short term max capacity you can achieve because it isn't sustainable, lacks redundancy or because the nature of work flow and peer expectation creates a degree of slack.
Condensing the workforce as you describe risks destroying redundancy and sustainability.
It may work in tests with high performers over short dutations but may fall under over longer terms, with average performers, or with even a small amount of atrition.
Having cog number 37 pick up the slack for 39 doesn't work with no excess capacity.
The low hanging jobs historically created from progress are gone. You are talking nonsense. You are talking the equivalent of 'and then magically, new jobs appear, because jobs have appeared in the past'. And while you wave away job fears as a nothing burger, you randomly add in blaming people for not feeling rich because...they think progress should include their lives progressing for the better?
Ironically, I thought your parent commenter had to go through mental gymnastics to say that their parents analogy of the printing press isn't applicable to an LLM. Neither you nor your parent gave me any satisfactory reasons why they aren't similar, just your mental superiority as proof that oceanplexian must be wrong.
Have a second profile with fewer restrictions for those apps you think you need but don't want to compromise security for. My second profile has one app, which is my banking app with all the dependencies it rudely requires for functionality
It's a standard Android feature with various apps available for different use cases. Some are for setting a specific location, others are for using an external device. It's a very generic feature. GrapheneOS plans to add a different feature called Location Scopes similar to our Contact Scopes and Storage Scopes features for setting a per-app location. Android's Mock Location is global.
If you have a wide screen, you won't notice it so much. Try reading on a narrow screen in just about the wrong resolution and it will look like the author used notepad and hit enter every time they were too close to the edge instead of letting the program do the wrapping.
This is my informal understanding; I am not a religious scholar