hansl

Yeah I don’t think teens are particularly pro-Palestine or anti-Israel.

Teens throughout history have just been anti-war and anti-killing-children.

Is couchsurfing still a thing?

“I’m sorry you merged WHAT upstream? No I don’t care if there’s a new glibc out there, the one we have works just fine.”

Also having to manually bring the pigeon back to the launching site, because pigeons only work one way.

It’s closer to how you (as a person) know things than, say, how a database know things.

I still remember my childhood home phone number. You could ask me to forget it a million times I wouldn’t be able to. It’s useless information today. I just can’t stop remembering it.

Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.

I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.

But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.

I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?

In the marketing department apparently.

Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?

We need UBI, like, 5 centuries ago.

sshd

The web is already federated. Anyone can start their own web server and compete with everyone.

The problem is WEI will prevent you from using unauthorized browsers with, for example, Netflix or YouTube or your bank, if those services decide to force WEI.

Federating those services is near to impossible for various reasons. People could make competing services that don’t enforce WEI, and some people have.