Asking someone to add an additional free messaging app is maybe a 2 out of 10 on the effort scale, where 1 is "hand me that thing that's next to you" and 10 is "give me one of your kidneys".
You shouldn't feel bad about asking anyone who claims to care about you for such a small favor even if it didn't benefit them, but as others have already mentioned, it does.
Disposable respirators in the modern style showed up in the 1970s, and the N95 standard everyone is now familiar with for unrelated reasons came out in 1995. Why does anyone have black lung?
When the old one is no longer suitable for use as a primary phone:
Prescriptions via telehealth are pretty common in the USA, and while people do sometimes request antibiotics for dumb reasons, OP's reason isn't.
I'm sure it's hard to get drugs people use recreationally that way, or something extremely risky, but not something common and low-risk like amoxicillin. You can just mail order that as long as it's marked for use in fish tanks.
The original comment said he "lead the creation of Firefox", which is usually credited to Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt. I have no doubt he provided support, but that's not the same thing.
JWZ was involved in getting Netscape released as open source, and in starting the Mozilla foundation. He left before Firefox.
A doctor once gave me a month's supply of a drug only approved for use for 10 days due to liver toxicity. I learned about the limit from a news article and stopped taking it.
I experienced no ill effects that I know of, but his malpractice put me at risk of death or lifelong complications. I learned to double-check everything myself after that.
My Opus BT-C3100 smells like magic smoke and looks like this. I suppose I could change these resistors and it might be OK, but I could also buy things.
I'm looking for 2-4 slots; it should fit protected 21700s; it shouldn't have a noisy fan that runs all the time like the Opus; USB-C input is preferred, but not required.
I'm broadly aware of what's on the market, but I want to know if you love or hate yours.
My aunt spent a long time working in education in the USA, much of it in leadership roles. When she incorporated lessons on critical thinking into the curriculum, it resulted in a lot of pushback from parents who did not appreciate their kids applying the lessons at home.
People who actively resist the use of critical thinking will seem cognitively impaired because they are, in fact intentionally impairing their cognition. My intuition here is to blame religious fundamentalism, but that's not a well-researched position.
Attempts to implement communism at the scale of a nation state have always involved significant concentration of power. It may be impossible to do otherwise.
Power corrupts, and concentrations of power attract the corrupt.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Yes, I think I'm better off than I was four years ago.
I think after XMPP, Google Talk, Wave, Hangouts, Allo, etc... people should know better than to adopt a messaging service from Google.
Yes, I know RCS is theoretically an open standard, but if Google can keep me from using it, it effectively belongs to Google.
Signal, and (probably) Whatsapp have end-to-end encryption. It's better to feed less information into mass surveillance systems when you can.