dysamoria

GeorgeBMac said:

That makes sense....

Sleep is primarily a chemical process that occurs in the brain and throughout the body.   But that process and the overall physiology of sleep is poorly understood.  And, the only chemical treatments are sedatives and pills with sleepy side effects like Benadryl (an anti-histamine).

And these drugs are only hypnotic agents that can, at best, make it feel easier to GET TO sleep. They don’t help you get better sleep, and actually interfere with acquisition of, and maintenance of, deep sleep; pretty much every drug does. The only drugs that seem to have any slightly positive effect on deep sleep are GABAs and GHB, both of which have considerable adverse effects and complications. Not to mention the fact that the body pursues homeostasis, which is why we get situations where “I need a higher dose”, “this drug isn’t working anymore”, and addictions (pretty much every drug, especially psychotropics).

Deep sleep/delta sleep is the only truly restful stage of sleep. It’s the least active state the brain is ever in, which is when the brain itself can literally rest. This is what’s going largely missing in people with, for example, symptoms of narcolepsy and daytime sleepiness despite spending 7+ hours apparently asleep in bed.

The only way to gauge how much of each sleep stage a person is getting is to do sleep studies where you wear a ton of crap to measure your body/brain electrical activity over time. This testing itself can interfere with sleep (strange environment, covered in wires and glue), but luckily it does tend to show useful data.

It so far seems not to help determine the CAUSE for lack of deep sleep for any reason other than sleep apnea. For people like me, with little to zero stage 3/delta sleep, and NO apnea, there’s absolutely no answers to my sleep disorder (just hand me a disability status). There’s literally nothing to be done to help me because research isn’t being done to figure out what’s actually wrong (I have lots of ideas and none of it can be used to sell me new pills, so there’s no financial incentive to study it; not to mention it’s basically a challenge to our toxic culture that brought me to this extreme point, from a childhood of already struggling with sleep - no one GAF).

There is a continuing myth promoted by many people, and actual drug advertising(!!), that REM sleep is the “most restful stage of sleep”. This is FALSE. It’s anything but. Your brain is very active during dream sleep. You need it, we don’t know why, but it’s not a brain-rest stage.

In fact, we know so little about sleep as a species that the only really correct answer to the question “why do we sleep” is “because we get sleepy”.

williamh said:

If they think AirTags have a battery safety issue, I expect they also find the batteries themselves are too dangerous to sell. 

Unnecessary. Per the article and packing I’ve witnessed, there are safety cautions on the packages and they require great effort to open. More than I care to put into it myself, but I guess now I know why...

This isn’t a targeted attack against Apple. Fanatics need to chill out. Precious isn’t being threatened.

sdw2001 said:

I'm surprised they have to time to review this given that they are busy policing the streets with machine guns looking for covid restriction violators.   

Machine guns? Citation?

lkrupp said:

Oh the irony! Apple criticized for not having user replaceable batteries. Apple now criticized for having user replaceable batteries that are too easy to replace. The company simply can’t do anything right according to the critics.

Many of the products I own that have button batteries have snap off lids for replacement. Some have a small screw that needs to be removed to replace the battery. Can you imagine the cacophony of outrage if AirTags required a screw to be removed. Right off the bat there would be claims of greed because the AirTag didn’t come with a screwdriver included and that users shouldn’t have to buy something else just to remove the battery. This is life for the world’s biggest corporation.

You’re artificially building this up into a conspiracy-level personal/targeted attack against Apple, especially with comments about what might happen if scenarios were different. Chill out.

Repair fee? That’s more like a discount on buying a refurb unit to replace your broken one. What are they repairing? Anything?

In an era where we should have long been reducing materials waste, we have way more completely disposable electronics and appliances.