The laborious, linear interface is of course another limitation of all kinds of tapes -- digital or analog. But getting rid of this also changes human behavior. People don't listen as much to long form collections; they don't even necesssarily listen to entire songs.

A mix tape is essentially a long format program manually and personally curated for you by another human being, unmediated and indeed untracked by any third corporate party. Losing the mix tape was a real cultural loss. Sure they didn't sound great, but they didn't have to.

I suppose every technological advance is potentially double edged. When people get books and literacy, verbal storytelling declines. That doesn't make books bad. the technical limitations of verbal stories -- say limited repeatbility -- are real limitations, but that doesn't mean something wasn't lost.

If I was one of those five people.

It's a badge of honor to be targeted by a fascist regime.

Are you making assumptions or do you know this for a fact?

so we can unfuck all the things he's fucked.

But the reality is, Trump is a symptom, not a disease. He was elected by the people. Those who voted Trump once were either Nazi sympathizers or fools. Those who voted Trump the second time around were definitely Nazi sympathizers, or definitely fools.

Impeaching Trump won't do anything. The next Nazi in line is JD Vance and he's ten times worse because, unlike Trump, he's not an idiot with a case of fronto-temporal dementia.

And even if Vance and the rest of the Nazi goons are out, the people will vote another fascist in the next time around because the people has proven twice now that they're fucking fascists or fucking morons.

In short, America is fucked because Americans are hopeless.

Fed up customers fleeing in droves.

Nobody likes Microsoft. Nobody has ever really liked Microsoft. But everybody puts up with Microsoft's low quality products and abuse because Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape - particularly in corporate settings, and for gaming.

But they've really cranked up the abuse to 11 recently, with Windows becoming a terrible advertisement platform, requiring new hardware when people's old machines were still serviceable, the constant privacy invasion, relentless push for online accounts, for their cloud offerings, and now their godforsaken AI shit that literally nobody likes nor want. Not to mention upcoming price hikes for the privilege of getting all that enshittification thrown at your face...

Microsoft has gone too far for a lot of people, and people react by going to Apple or Linux. And quite frankly, personally, I desperately want Microsoft to continue shooting themselves in both feet like they're doing so they make themselves irrelevant as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and we're finally, at long last, rid of them at last. 50 years we've been waiting! That's like half a century dude...

Another silly hollyWEIRDO show where dresses look like they are going to fall off and everyone has to get up and spout their leftist political nonsense so they can stay on the "in" crowd.

about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.

I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.

In the USA, a lot of people are still "conditioned" to buy from a carrier store, going back over 20 years which is where people started buying phones. Plus, people think they are getting a good deal for a "free" phone by a carrier locked phone, but actually pay MORE than if they had bought it outright. The last carrier phone I bought, was the original Samsung Galaxy on AT&T. I switched to straight talk not long after and did some calculations of using an MVNO, vs a carrier locked phone, over the course of the contract. I've been on an MVNO ever since.

I wish Ford would actually build cars! Other than the Mustang, all they build are trucks & those stupid SUV's

Germany, land area: 138,100 sq mi The 48 continental United States: 3,120,428 Germany, land area is little smaller than the state of Montana. In other words, as with EV's, "renewables" are not practical in the USA.

Yeah, shut down coal, hydro damns, gas turbines and depend on solar & wind. THAT will work out LOL BEFORE they shut them down, they should replace them with MORE nuclear power plants!

started with an old brownie camera in the early 70's. Went to SLR in the early 80's. First digital in 2006 (still have it! Panasonic FZ-50) Upgraded to d-slr in 08, and another d-slr in 12 and still use it. Multiple lenses, flashes, filters but it is still the best camera out there. Hey, nothing against smartphones, but those super TINY image sensors not to mention there are too many of them.

Unlike say South Korea, Japan, Europe...you can drive across the entire country in a day. In the USA it takes DAYS to cross the entire country. Not to mention a lot of places are out in "the sticks" and are 20-30 minutes or more between towns & cities. To "build out" a nationwide charging network would not only be expensive, it would be impractical, not to mention our charging grid can barely handle the load today. In cities, EV's are more practical than ICE. But in the more rural areas of the United States, hybrid and ICE vehicles are way more practical.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

My dad, sold cars from the 60's until 2000. U.S. auto production (the big three) has gone downhill for decades. Heck, I read an article with a chart last week that showed Honda & Toyota build more American made cars, with parts SORCED from America, than the big three.