It's the lupus of the tech world.

Would be quite OK if they avoided the ads and enshitification of services.
Heck I'd be OK if they even used AI for it.

I believe that if the BEV is to become popular in the USA then it will be because it is seen as a secondary vehicle for local commutes while their primary vehicle is for the trips needing 500+ miles with a 5 minute stop at a filling station.

I see that as backwards; the primary would be an EV for everyday commutes and something else for the longer road trips. This what my wife and I do, except both cars are EVs, and if that won't work, we rent an ICEV for a few days. I've taken one of them on a multi thousand mile road trip and it was no more inconvenient or longer than taking an ICEV. The charge stops and durations lined right up with my need for breaks, and most of the time the car was ready to continue before I was.

Having said all that, I agree with the basic idea that you drive what works for you. If an EV doesn't work for your needs then drive something else.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

My understanding of prison culture (US, anyway) is that convicts that committed crimes against women and children are targeted in prison by the other convicts and frequently need to conceal the nature of their victims or else they themselves become victims of prison yard justice.

I'm an artist.

When installing Ubuntu I've not been asked to sign up to any Microsoft services.
Enshitification shall continue until you stop using Microshit.
Even Rome ended.

The "AI" is some kinda almost always agreeable ass kissing sycophants giving people a false senses of security and sometimes false information.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

It's called an "org chart."

Oh wait this is an org chart "with a computer."

What am I missing here?

I can finally drive to the supermarket at a proper speed whilst being kind to the environment...but not in the US. The US doesn't like better products if the lobbying group has sufficient grasp on government. Why would Americans want to drive anything but one of Musk's high quality full self-driving EVs??

Said former CEO is free to work a 996 schedule.
What's stopping him from talking less and working more?
Any of his children or siblings short on funds to the extent they'll sign up to 996 slave labour??
Fuck him. Let it rot.

Once the bizarre nostalgia of sitting with 100 strangers, their popcorn chewing, noisy kids, mobile phone checking and ridiculous snack pricing is over cinemas will be over...