I down vote things that are factually wrong. If it’s a matter of opinion and I don’t agree, I take no action. If someone is being an asshole, or if their comment/post has absolutely nothing to do with the post/community, I will down vote. I can’t always tell what is AI generated, so I might end up voting some of those, but my preference is to down vote AI generated content and bots.

It’s a combination of vibe coding and absolutely no QA testing, because they fired a fuck ton of QA people 10 years ago. Microsoft is making it’s users beta test their fucking software through telemetry bug reporting. And we fucking pay for that privilege.

She used you to make the band guy jealous maybe?

You don’t actually own the car you bought, it’s impossible to repair via third party

I think this is a valid point, but it isn’t just a thing in the electric car industry. Gas engine cars are doing this shit too. My girlfriend’s new chevy malibu has an app that lets you start the car remotely from your phone, but you have to pay a subscription to use the feature. The enshitification is everywhere.

You’re right, lithium battery fires are more difficult to extinguish.

I was in college. During a volleyball game at an away school, one of the girls on the other team came up to me to ask about my serve. (I did this weird side-arm thing rather than overhead.) She was cute and nice, so I asked her if she would like to exchange info. We talked more, and I eventually asked her out. I brought her to a nice place for dinner. She ordered a steak, then proceeded to pick the whole thing up with her bare hands and raw dog the steak. I was instantly turned off. I told her I wasn’t feeling well and ran to the bathroom. I found the waiter and paid for everything, then I went back to the table, told her I was sick and needed to go home, but I paid for everything so please enjoy the meal. She called the next day and wanted to meet up again. I told her I’d hang, but only as a friend and I didn’t want to take things further. She threatened to kill herself, so I called emergency services, and let them handle that. Still the biggest bullet I ever dodged.

I’m curious to know the reasoning behind this opinion if you will talk about it.

I don’t use tiktok, instagram, and I deleted facebook, it’s all targeted advertising slop. My “friends” on facebook didn’t interact with me, they interacted with my posts. I made a post stating I was going to delete facebook on X date, and if anyone wanted my contact information they should reach out before then. 1 person reached out to keep in touch. I refuse to download apps on my phone. I already have an internet browser on the phone; one app to rule them all. Why do I need a fucking app for what I can do on your webpage? I switched to linux because both apple and windows are in a race to see who can be the shittiest walled garden that invades your privacy and steals your data, so yeah, I’m still very much, don’t trust strangers on the internet, including corporations. No I will not give you my information to get a discount or bullshit rewards points. I’ll pay full price, my data is worth way more than your paltry discounts.

I spent a year living in Tulsa on south gilete ave, the only redeeming quality was the sonic like 6 blocks away.

I’m from NYC. I miss good public transportation, museums, and nightlife.

Remember Blizzard and diablo immortal, when they got booed during the reveal of the game, and then the devs were like, “does no one have phones?” Some of these CEOs and DEVS are so out of touch with what their customers want because they would rather huff their own farts all day, enjoying the smell of their own brand, instead of admit that they led product development to an area where there wasn’t market demand amongst their consumers.

Probably be less angry about grammar and spelling “nazis.” I’m guilty of those mistakes too, so I am not above being corrected myself.

That is a GREAT video! Based on the book quotes in that vid, I 100% believe that John Forester would take his socks off at night and huff is foul body odor. Bro must have loved the smell of his own brand.

Their, as in the disdain microsoft has for the user, not there, as in microsoft put the disdain in a box and it’s sitting across the room over there. However, your point is valid and stands.

Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren’t editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It’s the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, fuck John Forester.

Cyclist here. Didn’t earn my license until the age of 28, when I moved to a city that had even shittier infrastructure for bikes.

If we are going to place blame where it is due, look no further than the engineer, John Forester. John Forester was a wannabe bike racer out in California that wanted bikes to be treated like cars because dip shit thought he was sonic; he wanted to go fast. His concern was that bikes would get relegated to sidewalks and paths where they couldn’t go fast if bike infrastructure was implemented. He was against bike infrastructure during post war 1970’s CA where lots of urban planning was happening.

When it comes to walking and bicycling, most state DOTs and most local DOTs wait until there is a demonstrated demand before implementing bike infrastructure. Meaning stuff doesn’t get done until there’s a worn path on the side of the road where people are walking, or — as dark and morbid as it sounds — enough people are killed crossing a multi-lane road that eventually action is warranted. Many cities like the city where I am from were incorporated in the late 1600’s early 1700’s, and no one was thinking about bike infrastructure then. Roads were built with horse carts in mind, which evolved into cars. For older cities making the changes is a major cost vs urban planning to include bikes when a city is new and being built.

Another key difference between the USA, and European/Asian nations that have better bike infrastructure, is the fact that the later believes in science. In the early 2000s, the city of Paris, France, started a major push to roll out bike infrastructure to encourage cycling because air pollution was such a huge problem. Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — two of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively. Amsterdam and Copenhagen are other examples of cities that built out bike infrastructure to reduce reliance on cars. Despite the environmental benefits seen in the USA when traffic plummeted during covid, most state and local governments would rather pretend that air pollution caused by cars isn’t that bad.

Then there is the whole, if you build it, they will come, mentality. Most people in the USA don’t consider cycling viable because there is no infrastructure. It doesn’t occur to them that riding a bike is even an option because the infrastructure isn’t there. If the infrastructure were there, it might encourage more people to try cycling instead of driving. I work in a busy downtown area for my state government. The infrastructure for bikes here is god awful. There are just 3 roads in my entire town that have bike lanes, and they are often riddled with cars that have double parked in the downtown area. Once you get about 3 miles away from the downtown area, the bike lanes disappear from each road. My job has no protected locations for locking up bikes. I used to lock mine right to a tree outside of my job, and it was stolen. The ONLY reason why the guy was caught was because he stole from in front of a state government building and there were cameras everywhere. I bought a new bike, and an insane lock, and my bike was sabotaged in the new spot on street I found to park. (Someone cut small holes in my rear tire, to the point I couldn’t identify there was a breach in the tire when I had a flat because the hole was so small. I’d eventually figure it out, buy a new tire, and kept riding. The last time my bike was sabotaged, the culprit used a knife to cut the rubber of the inner tube stem, which is something that can’t be patched, and isn’t obvious until you take it apart to look for the problem. Another police report resulting in camera footage being pulled once again showed there was a asshole vandalizing bikes when he couldn’t steal them.)

Finally, shitty infrastructure will destroy your bike. The shoulders of the roads up here are littered with potholes worse than the street, like so bad when I hit one, it flipped me over the handlebars onto the pavement. When it’s raining, you can’t tell if a puddle is just a puddle or a massive pothole. I hit so hard it popped the tire AND bent my rim. Then there’s all the glass, and random industrial waste in the shoulder too. It got so bad I started collecting the bolts, nuts, and other random pieces of metal in the road I mailed into our city’s DOT with my complaint about the state of the roads. During a bad month, I might have 4 flats, that’s almost $50 of new inner tubes, plus my time to make repairs.

Trump, the second coming.

Gestures broadly at American Coservatives.

A literal fucking pocket, as I expected. SMDH

I’m dealing with early parkinsons and arthritis, so anytime I try to do anything on my phone I just mess it up. Being on the PC with a keyboard is far more accessible to me.