So you .... use Windows.

To a degree that's true. To a degree that's not. It's the same argument as "drug companies don't want to make drugs that are actual cures". And yet - they do.

IMHO you've made a pithy assertion. Sounds great! Yes, of course there is motivation to keep users, encourage engagement, all that stuff. But companies also recognize that people to talk to each other and when their products do "solve the problem" that also improves standing in the market among competitors. Success stories drive positive coverage and business. (I've known long term couples who met on dating sites and their precursors, and they volunteer positive information about the ways they met.)

I think it's real easy to say "hey, I know the problem could easily be solved" .. talk is cheap. Reality is complicated - companies are driven by a multitude of factors, and while repeat business is one of them, even a big one, deliberately failing on purpose is a bridge too far for me, particularly in a space that has competition.

If you've been using dating sites recently and you feel they're actively working to match you up with compatible people, I'm interested in hearing about it. That wasn't my experience (although I did not meet my wife through them) .. I think they genuinely try, but the valid nugget of your observation, which isn't novel at all, is that it's not the *only* mandate they have.

holy fuck does that make you come off like a pathetic person

The time to describe was to design the rocket, not to fabricate it.

*wanking motion* https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/...

That's not the ask, nor is a climate that never changes the promise of such a ruling. But keep swinging at that strawman.

Remember - only you're smart enough. Everyone else always gets what they deserve. In the future, history will be written like, "Aw man, I wish we had more smart people like jenningsthecat around! So smart!"

"Regulations should be well considered, designed, and effective" is not the novel observation you think it is.

Pointing out one regulation that had the opposite effect is also not the argument against regulations, in toto, you think it is.

"Regulations bad" is the position of somebody who finds the act of thinking about things exhausting.

You used a word "rarely" up there, but the onus is on you to actually back that up with an argument, not a single point of data. Frankly, if you want to hold that as an opinion, you owe it to yourself to do a bunch of work to figure out if that's actually true. It should take at least a year of personal interest and reading to figure out to what degree it's true. I highly doubt you've undertaken a such a deliberate effort beyond taking the occasional warm bath of confirmation bias.

it's depressing to me how people think those two things are equivalent.

the *actual* equivalent is the ability to use your library card to borrow ebooks - a service most libraries in the modern world offer - seeing as you've paid for your local library system to purchase books. it seems rather silly to me to think "the same thing" as a library card is to give Amazon *additional* money for something you're already paying for.

I feel like that would be awfully expensive to enforce

that seems limiting. Define "use".There's going to be a degree to confirming and enforcing compliance to this kind of requirement that is prohibitively expensive, prone to litigation, etc etc

I would say that the the most reasonable compromise is to regulate that products that have functionality that depends on hardware/network connectivity not included with the product itself is disclosed properly on all materials and at point of purchase

'19 Nissan Versa with a CVT

Probably should have done some research *before* buying that. Yikes.

That would be impressive, because not a single brand has a score in the 70s: https://www.consumerreports.or...

Hyundai/Kia is smack dab in the middle, which is hardly an inditement of their reliability. And of course, it's much more useful to consider reliability for specific models - Hyundai/Kia has a number models which score significantly higher (or lower) .. as does any brand .. depending on what vehicle you're considering.

I've watched a TON of reviews of the Ionic N 5 and literally *every* reviewer disagrees with you. It's not like most, or some ... every single review of this car puts a shit eating grin on the face of the person driving it. It's rare for something to be that unanimous among all journos in the arena of car reviews. If you think shifting is fun, then it's fun to be able to do it in this vehicle. If making a vehicle more fun to drive isn't "improving it", uh .. I guess that's an opinion one can have.

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