The days of going to Crutchfield and getting a nice new radio for the car are long gone, unfortunately.

The real question is why does an infotainment system update brick the entire car? More and more manufacturers are tying a whole bunch of shit into the radio, that should never have been part of the radio. This shouldn't even be possible.

Lack of single payer healthcare also keeps tons of people from starting a business for themself. By the time someone has built up enough experience to have a good chance of making it on their own, they'll have a family depending on them so they can't take the big risk of leaving a steady job.

The spouse/kids have a medical issue that isn't a huge deal in any other civilized country, but you're now dependent on healthcare subsidized by your employer for them to get treatment without bankrupting the family. Most people simply can't afford to give that up.

Also housing. Most people can't afford to risk lean months while starting a business because housing and other necessities are taking such a huge chunk of everyone's paychecks now.

Things are this way by design.

Yes, that was a very old meme here on /. back in the day despite him being very much alive. Similar to the guy who would always get the first post reminding you to pay your $599 linux license fee to SCO you cock smoking teabagger, the GNAA trolls, and random goatse links that appeared in every comment section (These goatse links are why all links on slashdot comments have the domain next to them, decades later). This was back when the average slashdot story had hundreds of replies, instead of the few dozen they get now.

Lol, 14 years ago I managed to get this story posted in the style of the old "Stephen King was found dead in his home today - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon" meme that used to be so popular here. Glad to know that even back then the editors didn't know the site and the memes popular on it.

https://slashdot.org/story/11/...

Goddamn I've been on this site for too long

Every other player in the room is doing this now because they saw that there was little or no repercussions for Facebook. Yeah, a $725 million fine is some penalty, but that's peanuts to them for what they got out of it.

Today's EVERYTHING is overpriced.

Thanks, underregulated capitalism! And soon enough, tariffs will drive prices even higher. Thanks, Trump supporters!

Some Amtraks had that at least until the late 1980s. I remember being fascinated with seeing the track go by underneath when you flushed, and signs posted asking you not to flush while in a station.

He quite literally said today, "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator." He's floating that balloon, seeing how much push back he'll get for it.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrup...

That's how working in an office is. Our IT department is in an old part of the warehouse. High ceilings, basically a big box that echoes everything. The meeting rooms are just walls with no ceiling on them (They said this was for air filtration after covid - It's more likely due to fire regulations with sprinklers if the room had a ceiling on it). Because of this, the entire department hears everything from every meeting. And one of the older guys is fucking deaf, so anytime he's in a meeting, the phone volume gets turned up to a level that just absolutely breaks through any concentration I could have had.

I'm looking forward to the check for $3.18 that I'll be receiving in several years for this.

Give the babbling idiot some credit, he's not just economically illiterate.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER - SCC

You think the president demanding Intel's CEO to resign isn't technology related?

This would lead to situations where someone getting a raise could potentially lose money. It should be first x amount of income is tax free. Next x amount of income is taxed at this higher rate. After that, income between x and y is taxed at this rate. And any income beyond that is taxed at this rate. This is how it currently works, although tons of people don't understand that and are convinced that them getting a small raise will lower their take home income.

This could still very easily be implemented. Income $100,000/year, tax rate is 0. Income between $100,000-$149,000 tax rate is 5%, etc...

"But what about deductions for children/mortgage interest/etc?" Also a simple fix, raise the income brackets substantially, so the first $100k or so isn't taxed at all. This would help tons of people struggling currently. Of course there'd still need to be a way to deal with things like capital gains, and I'd also argue that wealth sitting in an account above a ridiculously high limit should also be heavily taxed. But this would likely be far more efficient and fair than the shit show we've currently got ourselves into.

I agree with your other points.

While we're on a pipe dream, throw in a UBI for EVERYONE that isn't subject to tax. Use taxes on AI and automation that's replaced workers to fund that. This would then be able to replace things like welfare and SNAP benefits, greatly reducing the amount of fraud (Not that this is all that huge of a deal now) and overhead that we're currently using to administer the existing programs.

They're certainly better at hardware. For years I had flagship Samsungs, a few of the Pixel models, even the Nexus (Which wasn't necessarily a flagship, but was the reference model for what an Android phone should be). Without fail, every single one of them crapped out shortly after the warranty expired. Things like bootloops that would brick the device, or they just would decide to not turn on one day. And I had one of the Samsungs that were known for catching fire, that was fun. I couldn't take it on trips with me because they were banned on aircraft, ships and even trains.

Apple certainly has their issues, and I much preferred Android to iOS, but not one of mine or my wife or kids' iphones have ever just stopped working, even the ones that are several years old and been passed down to the kids.