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Bloomey
@bloomey
SoCal Underground Legend. Surfing, Poker, Crypto, Volleyball.
South Bay Katılım Aralık 2008
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@RubenGallego Who is that and what was he charged with?
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Every photo you take on your iPhone is quietly recording a 3-second video in the background. You never turned this on. Apple ships every single iPhone with it enabled, and they have a $109 billion reason to keep it that way.
It's called Live Photos. Been around since 2015. When you tap the shutter, your phone grabs 1.5 seconds of video before your finger hits the button and 1.5 seconds after. Then it stitches that clip to your picture and saves both.
The storage cost is where it gets interesting. A regular iPhone photo is about 2–5 MB. How-To Geek tested Live Photos on an iPhone 13 and found each one runs around 13 MB total, roughly 5 MB for the picture and 8 MB for the video riding shotgun. So every photo with Live turned on takes 2.5x the space.
Apple gives you 5 GB of free iCloud storage. For comparison, Google gives you 15 GB. At 13 MB per shot, you burn through Apple's free 5 GB in about 385 photos. Photutorial's 2024 data puts the average American at 20 photos a day. That's three weeks before Apple's free storage runs dry and the little "iCloud Full" notification starts nagging you to upgrade. $0.99 a month for 50 GB. $2.99 for 200 GB. $9.99 for 2 TB.
And it keeps coming back. I've seen this complaint all over Apple's own support forums and across tech sites. People disable Live Photos. Software update rolls in. It switches itself back on. Apple has never explained this.
Zoom out to the business side and the math clicks. Apple's services business (iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, all of it lumped together) pulled in $109.2 billion in 2025, up 14% from the year before. December 2025 quarter alone crossed $30 billion in services revenue for the first time in company history. iCloud+ and Apple One subscriptions account for about 26% of that pie, which works out to roughly $28 billion a year in charges that auto-renew every month on a credit card most people forgot they entered.
I'll be fair. Live Photos do have some genuinely useful tricks. You can scroll through the frames and pick the one where nobody blinked. Long Exposure mode blurs water in rivers and waterfalls without needing a tripod. And you can turn any Live Photo into a short looping animation.
But honestly, for the vast majority of people, Live Photos is just a storage tax they never signed up for. It sits there on every iPhone, quietly eating space. And sooner or later, the $0.99 upgrade prompt does the rest.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
Dear Apple, Live Photos still make no sense.
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@CoryCullington @JohnStrandUSA @HanneBlaze64 @JoshJPhilipp @EpochTimes @theblaze @WeAreJ6alliance @EagleEdMartin @GuntherEagleman They are running wild with all this “new” footage.
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@bloomey @JohnStrandUSA @HanneBlaze64 @JoshJPhilipp @EpochTimes @theblaze @WeAreJ6alliance @EagleEdMartin @GuntherEagleman That guy isn’t one of them. That’s Michael G. from Henrico, VA. He and most of his companions on J6 have been identified. He was a firefighter, not a Federal agent.
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we have prepared a user guide and walkthrough for the @base app:
covers everything from profile and wallet setup, reward mechanisms and hidden features.
like + reply “based” and i’ll dm the link/pdf to you.
the guide also has a form for creators to get an instant access code.

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Who needs a @baseapp invite?
Reply below
David Tso (dave.base.eth)@davidtsocy
Who needs a @baseapp invite? Reply below
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@KevinRobMartin In 2009 the correct answer was Olympic Gardens. Real ones know. RIP.
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This year is officially halfway done
I am always trying to develop skills and improve myself, but it feels like this year has been a particularly strong year for that for me.
This year I've:
- gone super deep on selling options (calls and puts)
- introduced SEVERAL new content verticals for myself (rap videos, solo comedy sketches, educational videos)
- introduced cold plunging as a near daily exercise
- gone way deeper on health optimization thru bloodwork
- gotten much better at cooking steak
- moved to a new city (culture shock, social restart, etc)
- gotten much better at beach volleyball
- started learning how to wing foil
- introduced raw goat's milk kefir and raw bovine colostrum to my diet
- gotten way more sophisticated w/ managing corporate finances
What have you gotten better at this year?
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