vonbaronhans

To be fair, Tesla is the primary culprit of this. Waymo and other AV companies have just been slowly but steadily ramping up their testing and operating in relatively safe ways, and they are by and large doing pretty well from the coverage I've read. It's not happening as quickly as anybody hoped, but we're seeing steady improvements over time.

Tesla is just reckless, though, branding things in ways that make the whole AV endeavor look much worse than it deserves.

I feel like I'd feel similarly if I had a foldable, but the one guy I know who has one swears he'll never buy one again. Granted, he got a gen 1 Galaxy Fold, so it's got some major growing pains.

Curious, but was there ever a time when critical thinking was taught in US public schools above and beyond what is being taught in public schools now?

US public schools are getting underfunded, of course, but curricula themselves have probably improved over time?

I honestly don't really even know how to begin researching this particular line of inquiry, and I have a background in social science research.

True.

But the point is the lock-in is similar from a social perspective, just hardened even further by tying the messaging platform to specific hardware.

"Hey let's use XYZ instead of iMessage" and "hey let's use XYZ instead of WhatsApp" will be met with the same typical resistance to any sort of change. But in the case of iMessage, there's added elitism and othering due to Apple's using iMessage as a lock-in to their hardware.

I think the big difference in the US is that iMessage was leagues ahead of SMS well before there were any good, popular 3rd party mobile messaging apps. iPhones also dominated here, and still do, largely due to that early market dominance.

I've also felt like YouTube Premium was a pretty good deal, given the sheer amount of YouTube content I consume and how much I detest ads.

That said, I also feel like most of what I really value from YouTube is on Nebula, to which I am also subscribed. I constantly wonder if it would be worth it to drop YouTube altogether, to save some money but also a huge amount of time.

The only other thing really keeping me on YouTube Premium is the included YouTube music. Not like Spotify is much cheaper, and I'm not much into manually managing libraries of my own music files like I did in the days of my 2nd Gen iPod (it had a touch wheel!).

It doesn't, but that isn't their point. They're simply pointing out that existing net neutrality laws in the US usually only apply to ISPs and telcos, not internet businesses.

I suppose community building, detached from geography, is bound to be done primarily by highly motivated advocates.

Maybe that's pessimistic, I dunno.

Enshittification, also called chokepoint capitalism, is a term coined by Corey Doctorow (sp?) that lays out a common pattern with platforms in a capitalist system where:

1. Platform builds a product to entice users to it for little to no cost to the user (Google search, Facebook, Amazon shopping, etc)
2. Once users are locked in, make the experience worse in ways that increase profits for business partners (Google ads partners, etc)
3. Once business partners are locked in, screw them over to rake back as many profits for the platform owner.

Okay?

yeah, fair enough.

Is that considered tankie? I know it's pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.

When I think 'tankie' I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.

"I saw one post. Most agreed. 100% extreme."

I ain't saying you're wrong, but the route you're taking there is not exactly valid.