I like a nice big screen as much as anyone, but after years and years of owning an iPad I'm using it less and less. And I honestly can't figure out why you'd want to tote around something that big all the time. Flights, I guess? A lot of traveling? I don't begrudge anyone buying one if they want it or they actually do have a day to day use for it, but I want my phone to get SMALLER.

The only folding phone I'll consider is the flip style, to reduce the carrying size. That would be handy to me, even if the folded dimensions are much thicker than my current phone. It'll still fit in a lot more pockets than the current form factor.

There's a narrative on the right that fascism was a left wing form of government.,

But the reality is that both fascism and communism were extreme right wing forms of government.

Fascism openly so, but also communism. Remember what fascism actually cares about, maintaining order, obedience to authority, sacrificing for the glory of the state.

Communism was supposed to be about equality and the people controlling everything in a bottom up manner. But the moment you implement it on a national scale you end up with a small inner circle, and they either go fascist like the USSR, or a technocratic dictatorship like China.

There's a reason that when the USSR fell the one narrative you heard was about how much the government lied (because they were far right masquerading as far left). And there's a reason why it was so easy for Russia to go far right under Putin, because they were under far right rule in the USSR.

So yeah, demanding public ownership is pretty on brand for fascists.

Nah, just a minor bump.

To get the hockey stick effect (like climate change), you need the new users actually feedback into improving the software they use. That doesn't happen much already much less with people with a focus on gaming.

Would make sense. Even normies are fed up with Win11.

When you use the law or social systems or business practices or other things to *enforce* that then you are discriminating. Then again you are sharing the space with the same type of people who want to undo the civil rights act because and use that very same argument so what should I expect.

Sure, I guess that's a valid argument, even if I disagree and think the comparison is fuckin' out of bounds but a valid argument still is valid.

That said while not all anti-DEI people are Nazis all Nazis are anti-DEI

It's a little silly but I finally made the switch after the Chrome plugin update killed my favorite calculator plugin and I use that thing everyday and there was a clone made for FF (shout out Foxy Calculator)

There's been some foibles and some things I wish it did that Chrome does (please dont make me scroll tabs, just condense them into a row even when I have 70+) but overall its been nice and the full fat uBlock is kinda worth it alone.

That is not the question. The question is whether not handing them said machine is worse.

Indeed. But too many idiots do not understand the difference between correlation and causation, because they can only think in correlations. For example, the typical MAGA is "keyword-trigger only". They see a specific keyword and then see the whole cloud of correlated things as also in there. Causation? They do not even understand the concept, much less being able to use it.

Well, I do... But I ignore at least half of the results I get from the thing.

The voting system is the problem. This does not require constitutional change:

Each state can change their elections for the House of Representatives to something better, like ranked choice single transferable vote in multi-seat constituencies. Changing presidential elections would require constitutional change, but the main problem with American politics appears not to be the presidency, but that the house is completely dysfunctional, refusing to hold the presidency to account in some cases, being unable to pass budgets, parties taking absurd positions because they are the opposite of the position already claimed by the only opposition, etc.

Imagine telling someone back in the 80/90s that in 2025 we'd have driverless taxis that could run from renewable electricity, but people would be bitching and trying to get them shutdown because of the noise from their backup sensors.

We truely live in the age of stupidity.

I honestly think dynamic pricing is just the dumbest MBA think that has ever been dreamed up. We used to have dynamic pricing at markets, and you had to spend ages haggling over everything. The development of the 'price tag' - particularly in western countries - was a massive efficiency increase for the average consumer.

Now we a heading back to the haggling era - when booking flights I have to regularly mess around with user-agents and switching to mobile to check I'm not being scammed by the algorithms. It's just painful, and the biggest effect is that it puts me off bothering to buy anything. Especially for low cost providers, the whole thing was that you could buy from them knowing they had the best price.

It's the same thing with the 'pricing ladder'. It's just dumb. If you don't have a decent enough feature to distinguish between your 'premium' product and your normal one then stop confusing your customers with made up upgrade tiers. Many times I've been dragged up the pricing ladder to the point I decide that it's too much to spend and I just don't buy anything. I mean, dragging people up a pricing ladder by telling them the model they were looking at isn't quite good enough is going to do that.

I still remember the glory days of Apple when you went and bought the 'iPhone' and it was the one you'd seen on the keynote, and you didn't have to know all the specs because it would do everything they'd shown you.

Yep, this has to be pointed out every time people say "spaceX is there to help Ukraine".

The only people benefiting from this war are putin and his "Lake cooperative", who remain in power because of the war.

Without the war, the so-called "economy" of putinland, which is now 146% war-driven, will collapse and that, the regime will disappear.

"Suing" for peace won't work just like it didn't work with Nazi Germany, whose economy was driven to near collapse by Hitler's attempts to establish an autarky.

No za staranie - spasibo, tavarisch voin tikhogo fronta.