...all my flats have been from road debris punctures, multiple a decade, had one just a month or so ago that went fast enough the sidewall had issues too which would not have been resolved by a can of fix-a-flat.

People know how to change tires, they just don't do it, or claim they don't. If you can unscrew the lid of a water bottle, you have all the necessary knowledge to unscrew and screw a jack and lug nuts.

I'd be annoyed if I got a car and had to separately get a spare and stick it somewhere random instead of a preplanned location. But that's a lot cheaper than roadside service plans or a la carte.

This, they identified the emergency vehicle "almost immediately", detected the siren, and then broke the law by not coming to a stop. Instead they continued to drive until recognizing an accident was impending, then still didn't stop but slowed.

It doesn't matter where an emergency vehicle is, or what it is doing, for safety and compliance with law, you come to a controlled stop, clearing the path if you can, so they can do anything they need/want to.

This isn't the time for "oh they are in x lane so I can", no, stop. This would be the simplest most basic automated driving logic that should've been there from day one. Cop on my tail with siren? Stop. Ambulance saving someone's life? Stop. Fire truck rushing to save families? Stop. Doesn't get more basic.

I polarized my first driving glasses and will happily replace them with non-polarized next time.
It doesn't affect most screens, but depending on angle, will of course not show some screens, which impacted one person I read about at a gas station--they thought all the displays were broken.

You still get glare, it's just all the oriented glare, which is still most the glare. Lessening some doesn't help, you still need to not look at it and/or are blinded by it.
You also can get weird rainbow artifacting from some car glass like my rear window.

Polarizing can be really great for fishermen when fishing to see into the water, but I don't fish when I drive, or at all actually.

...to see what they do, so many bury acquired assets or roll them into forthcoming projects instead of maintaining what made them good to begin with.

On the other hand, they removed the majority of cars from the game in the last update. I wonder if they were already planning to substitute with FiveM modded versions of the cars?

I have an unheated stairwell where pipes can freeze without a bit extra heat help. Incandescent bulbs do the trick nicely and are safer than the excessive heat output of space heaters (and heat tape isn't enough/too much coverage). The irony would be having to switch to a more wasteful heat source.

Not for the rest of us.

Ditto, confusion reigned.

G+ was loved by it's users, offered better visual functionality for artists and photographers than others at the time, and had engaging discussion. It didn't take down Farcebook because it was a different platform for a different purpose.

It also was something new/different at a time nobody was looking for a change.

As much as I loathe Facebork and that company, Threads is hitting at the right time, and has an already related user base in Insta. If FB was going through what Twitter currently is, and most were looking to jump ship when G+ came along, it'd be a no brainer. There's a dearth of platforms right when folks are seeking a new platform. The only way Threads would've been timed better was a bit earlier and not during the summer online usage slump.

Google also failed to understand how to capitalize on G+ as a product. They were focused on ID but imagine if they'd used all those conversations and images for generative AI? Treated it like gmail to offer marketing demographics to their advertisers? Instead of seeking to compete with others, they could've grown themselves.

The situation though, is apples and oranges. This is more Amazon coming along with Sears missing the boat.

Now do the same with light, or touch, and discover time perception was being tested not sound.

Putting an object on another without damaging it isn't illegal anywhere in the US AFAIK (normal citizen, not attorney). It may be rude. But rudeness is protected speech in the US.

If the act results in damages it's incumbent on the entity to sue the perpetrator in civil court to recover damages after demonstrating they were in fact the result of the act and foreseeable by the average person. If there's no way to know if an empty stationary self driving vehicle is hired by a customer, then it's arguable that it's not foreseeable there's financial damage.

If your property is left to its own devices in public, it's incumbent on you to take care of maintaining it in working order, not others. Part of a fleet of anything is maintaining it. Delivery robots try to be cute, with cute sounds and cute reactions to getting stuck to attract aid from passersby. Security robots often incorporate video monitoring and two-way communication. Those that don't, get vandalized (per that cross country robot's arrival in Detroit).

It sounds like they should be insuring their vehicles to cover their operating losses as a business based on the harassment of folks the vehicles are apparently causing.

Erm, most when dark without user input from my perception, when I looked at the list, and the subs, there were both no surveys and no time to gather input from users, subs were already committed before most knew of the plans.

In the couple subs I'm involved with, one of which animal health is involved, I considered bringing up having a poll to follow what users would want. But then also realized users could simply not post to participate.

Instead what happened is the loaded "are you going to join the blackout" imagery and post that was spammed all over reddit got posted. It was interested as universally all the comments were bandwagoning despite the health impacts to animals. It was also interesting I had to keep approving the post as so many reported it.

Then during the blackout most didn't even know it was going on (because hiding isn't an effective way of getting a message out obviously). Many thought they were kicked from other subs and our sub ended up being a resource for health in like of similar subs being closed. Some alternatives to those subs were getting traffic too. None of those subs had polls asking users their desire.

Very few polled users from what I saw, and of those, often the polls were not objective but loaded, without context.

Users did turn to other subreddits, front page had posts that would've been in regular subs being posted in previously unheard of subs.

What's extra crappy is if any sub closes while in a private condition, it breaks google links to info, whereas most users contributing info want it exposed to others, and if they don't, can affect that choice themselves instead of having others dictate it for them.

...interesting they're doubling down.

I was figuring it was an "anchoring" tactic to ask for a preposterously exorbitant price initially, then drop it claiming "responding to our users" and "supporting our third party developers" for a significant PR boost as well as turning losses into profit ahead of their IPO.

Seems kinda' foolish to double down on sticking with it as it is when it could be turned into a huge PR boost. Now they've kinda' backed themselves into a corner as reduction would feel forced and PR statements would ring hollow.

I'm dubious that's the case as the majority of users don't even know there's a protest, don't use alternative apps, and the protest process is to hide, so the main feed serves folk's usual content, with ironically fewer distractions--the signal to noise ratio has improved.

Many of the questions have been, "there are other apps!?" "What protest?" "Why?" "I've been kicked from X dark sub, so am sharing here instead" (the last not a question but reaction obviously).

Come tomorrow it'll be biz as normal. Folks that used to post in certain dark subs simply have been posting in others. It's like the Internet was supposed to be, routing around censorship.

Folks have lives to live, few focus entirely on Reddit and its politics.

I had figured this was an "anchoring" negotiation PR tactic, you ask for excessive, then settle on more than you wanted to begin with, in this case, super high rates, then back off claiming "listened to community" and "support third party devs" for a PR boost, but we'll see.

I had figured it was an "anchoring" negotiation PR ploy, make the pricing excessive, in response to the expected backlash, reduce the pricing claiming "listening to the community" and "we support third party devs". We'll see if that's what comes or not.

The "protest" seems kinda' pointless to me, as most users won't even see the effect, as they'll still have a home feed filled with stuff, just slightly different stuff. Some users are confused and think they've been banned from their favorite subs. It's like picketers just not showing up. Other ideas were presented like everyone posting a unified image so the main feed would be filled with it.

So ultimately, aside from the few subs that are choosing to remain closed, it's kinda' business like usual. Those of us that use RIF or other apps will have to adjust. Those of us who mod will have to adjust. Those who chose not to adjust will stop for however long.

There currently doesn't seem to be a useful subject based alternative with as easy onboarding. I've only seen a couple names thrown out there and they are mostly unknown projects without content that are more Twitter simulators rather than subject based systems like Reddit.

The prior shifts of people bailing other places had Reddit to go to back then. Currently there doesn't seem to be another.

Ultimately I believe it'll return to the status quo, just no RIF nor Apollo, lighter use remains free so bots and the like are unaffected. Most users don't even know there are third party apps nowadays, they are more legacy to when there wasn't an official app.

I agree they should've looked at a way to partner/monetize through third parties rather than taking things away from users. It's always better to embrace. But in this case it appears to be a "vocal minority" who have tried to impact by not getting the message out effectively and are alienating the majority.

How do you start to charge for a service that was formerly free? How do you avoid sinking your platform with such a change? How do multiple high level executives have multiple hours long meetings about the subject come out with what appears to be a silly self destructive plan?

They obviously knew there'd be backlash, came out with preposterous high fees with the intent of lowering them before implementation to appease the masses. They'll pitch it as "listening to the community" and supporting the third party developers.

The issue is will the resulting lowered fees still kill off apps and the useful bots.
I feel they should have looked into better revenue sharing systems, especially given their entire platform is based on volunteer supplied content and moderated by volunteers using bot systems.