Your description sounds exactly like a hype driven bubble - No one has a clue but the competition is doing this thing therefore we have to too.

The problem is the hijacking of the addiction label. It started off as a medical term that then gained legal teeth. But then it was conflated with obsessive behaviours while still preserving the legal teeth.

Forming obsessive behaviours is a normal healthy trait. It means one will specialise and become a valuable contributor to society. It's just a question of directing that obsessiveness to constructive activities.

As for social media, that's really all about bullying, abuse, coercion, and the likes. Basically everything shitty except addiction. The victims get accused of addiction while the assailants go around laughing at how easy it is.

PS: I've noticed medical practitioners no longer use the word addiction when talking about addiction so as to avoid the confusion. They now say things like "substance abuse", even though it's less definitive.

I didn't know about that before.

That's always a big factor in early experimenting. Who pays for all the components and test equipment? Even when the labour is free, if you don't have the R&D resources you're forever dead in the water.

has changed to "screw you, I'm doing it anyway."

The behaviour is still the same, but the excuses have changed.

The survey's sample sizes would've been the same. Shitty drivers and hardware would explain most of the imbalance. M$'s gung-ho approach doesn't help though. They're constantly having to re-adjust when reality clubs them on the head.

Which is too quickly becoming: trillions and trillions!

You said greater than 10 years ago.

Yes, of course. Anything deliberate falls under security. Anyone can jump off a bridge if they choose to. The safety barriers only serve as accidental protections.

Stable Diffusion is only 3.5 years old. Maybe you are an LLM?

Buying stuff online is pretty hit and miss. If the service could handle product returns for anything deemed unfit/unsuited then that would make it a proper shopping replacement.

It's actually a security concern, not safety. The car was in fact conforming in accordance with good safety practices.

I find dotNet based programs tends to end in tears on Wine. They either crash easy or never run at all. I use a number of industrial controller programming tools and none work because of dotNet shenanigans.

Be prepared to pay $$$ for each answer then. The rush to centralise is a big telltale.

$50 billion each!

No different to Sam Altman. Except he hasn't asked for trillions of dollars yet.