Exactly, the fact that a lot of media likes to spin everything into a negative is exhausting, let's post the good things again that give hope an optimism.

When the average new car pricing between 10k+ in 1984, and this could top out at 15k+ ... it's easy to see why it failed, you had cheaper options available for the home pc at the time.

the bubble will burst in 2026 and it won't be pretty... all that $$ invested into building these massive energy sucking data center farms to host AI slop without any sort of monetization plan? I am going to guess that forced subscription models are coming soon or else you'll be force fed ads through the AI platform. In the end, it's just a tool like everything else. It's a glorified chatbot bolted onto a Google like backend... dating myself here, but there was a chatbot back in the BBS days called 'Chat With Lisa' and people would think it was a real person at times... this is just a very advanced version of this. It's not AI, it gets stuck into it's own loops and can't break out of them. It's toxically positive and goads you into think that 'this time' the solution found will work! I see the potential for people to break databases and other code if they just blindly follow what it spews out.

Also Gen X'er here, I have continued to go to the movies albeit less and less. He's not wrong, endless reboots, remakes etc (seriously, how many remakes of the Spider man origin story or the Fantastic 4 or Batman do we need?). Sure, there are folks who love every incantation of them, and that's fine. What's happened is companies have decided to focus on the big production blockbusters more than taking chances on new scripts/stories. So they all end up following the same cookie cutter mold. 2.5+ hours long of acting in front of a green screen for 85% of the film.. boring. The 90-100 minute action flicks of the past, miss those, they would leave you wanting more, so you would re-watch it more than once. Also, production companies seem to take the: let's revisit the past/prequels etc. etc. instead of producing what things could be like in the future... if they do go that route, then it's some dark dystopian sludge.. anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now.

lol what are you even talking about?

It's very nice to see more and more illnesses being treatable with advancements in science and also disheartening to see others trying to take your country back to the middle ages.

alternative ports, sftp.. will they lock everything down? it will be like trying to nail jello to the wall.

Enough already, we already have landfills overflowing with devices that can no longer be repaired. Now they want to push for more of this?? It's time to start pushing back on corps who keep insisting on this, there is no other reason why devices can't be repaired than pure greed.

Well, if people don't think that a 1/3lb burger is bigger than a 1/4lb burger, you can pretty much just stop there lol.

Actually no, Jewish is a faith, so you have to actually follow it to be of said faith.

This is not surprising: * Ticket prices have gone up * Concession stand prices are outrageous (I know, they always have been, but recently even more so) * They always have the A/C cranked up to freezing * The volume is just too loud * Sitting through 30-40 minutes of trailers and ads * Can't pause it * Can't add subtitles Meanwhile at home * We have home theater setups that are more than sufficient with big screen tv's and fantastic sound I see theaters going the way of drive-in's at some point, but time will tell.

It's just BS to justify the lease for office spaces and management that can't really managed outside of seeing people in seats, really, that's all this is.

Between movies/tv + games and social media combined with increasingly unaffordable games/overcrowded market it's not really a mystery.

Exactly my thinking, just adjust it by 30 minutes and leave it like that going forward.

I came across this article recently which I feel sums up the overall situation we are seeing (not just with FB) https://www.ft.com/content/6fb...