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I am all in favor of better border controls, but these are clearly worse border controls. I hate that we live in a world where pretending to solve an issue is considered by politicians partial credit for actually solving it.

That’s how it all started for me: I had Netflix and Spotify from ages before, and then Netflix did their, “ads or double the price” thing and Spotify gave me more and more corporate music instead of what I wanted, so I dropped them both and switched to YouTube Premium for both music and video content.

Sometimes I am ashamed of belonging to the same species as some of these monster parents. I hope the rest of this boy’s life is much better!

I think the key here is to get used to react immediately, because the immediate reaction causes a reversal of the action. We don’t have to live with the increased cost and decreased service forever, because an immediate negative reaction means the service is restored to what it was before, with any luck. So everybody skips a downgrade or price increase at the same time, and until CEOs figure out the trick, it’s bye bye enshittification.

Okay, fine, I am ready to come out of the closet: I’ve been a YouTube Premium subscriber for two years. Lynch me if you like. I thought it hypocritical to crucify YouTube and have a Spotify or Netflix or Hulu subscription, and I found the cost acceptable.

Three price increases and a worsening of service later, I cancelled my subscription as soon as I received the email about a price increase.

Incidentally, I think that’s the thing to do: you get a price increase, there is no tangible benefit to the increase, you immediately drop the service. None of that “Whatchagonnado?” stuff. The only thing these services react to is an instant drop of revenue. You can live for a month without Spotify (or YouTube Premium), they can’t live for a quarter without subscribers.

We always have to remember that the short-term focus of modern capitalism is their weakness: a stupid mistake, a sudden drop in revenue, and the CEOs are flying out the window faster than Putin’s generals.

A’right, this is disgusting, but it’s really not Reddit’s fault if a Grand Jury requests evidence.

Pretty impressive that they had the overcapacity to do that while the Russian Spring offensive was in full swing.

Also impressive, although for opposite reasons: the ability of Russians to be sent to near-certain death for a year’s wages paid out to the widow or parents. I keep looking at my family and think, “I’d die for your life, but not so you can have a new car.”

It feels like Putin organized things in such a way that societal collapse is more likely than a popular uprising against him.

It’s so weird that all these dictators make plans that include burning down the civilizations they belong to if they themselves go under. What I mean by “it’s so weird” is not that they do, it’s that we know it, we know the kind of people, and we still manage to elect them into office. And then reelect them, and the we are lucky if we can figure out a way to get rid of them before they abolish elections.

So blue light is not ruining our sleep because it’s just responsible for 9 minutes of sleeplessness, did I get that right?

You are so mean! I had just stopped crying over not getting the new version of OS/2 the other week!

Very, very fair points. I wondered sometimes why no enterprising manufacturer simply took an existing ICE car and made an EV conversion kit. Like a conversion kit for a 2010 Honda Civic, take out the ICE engine etc. and replace it all with electric. That’s the car we want.

The high gas prices may have added fuel to the fire, but the best news here is that used EVs are growing in popularity. That is a consequence of us finding out batteries don’t degrade as fast as we first imagined, which makes used EVs a lot more interesting.

In the short term, that kills the market for new EVs, since used ones were so dirt cheap. In the long run, the resale value of new EVs will be much more stable, eliminating the last downside they had.

(Obviously, many car makers saw the short term pain and gave up on the entire market. That is of course because car maker CEOs are absolutely brilliant people with foresight and strategic thinking. Just kidding: they occupy the only category of jobs that should absolutely be replaced by AI.)

In my experience, the biggest problem with AI-written code is that is is full of hidden bugs that are near impossible to track down, because the code is virtually unreadable. Basically, you deploy faster and spend a lot more time with catastrophic failures you have to root out, only to find out that the fixes to the issues cause more issues downstream, because nobody know what anything does anymore.

That does not prove he is not a genius!!! /s

Remember when he told his advertisers to fuck off, and then two weeks later sued them because they fucked off? That’s the depth of this man’s genius!!!

One of the many reasons why we need a new and better browser without all the bloat.

Yeah, I found that pretty weird, too. Not only that, but you can’t get that yeast for the next two years. Your method works yesterday haha.

Get outta here with your sensible, practical solutions! ;-)

Look like good changes to me. There was nothing wrong with Mastodon, but sometimes you really had to have been a Mastodon user already to know how it works.

So America starts the war and the countries of the world line up to get exemptions from Tehran.

Truly worthy of the GRU meme.