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Personally I don’t think the feature consolidation was the problem. It IS still nice to have my music library, a camera, and a fairly capable computer all able to fit in my pocket…
The problem is we consolidated around specific device makers, letting them get too big and too comfortable - we’ve gone from being customers to being money chattle.
I’m worried how many people answered the odd numbers for an equation where it is only possible to end up with an even numbered answer.
Valve could’ve legitimately done nothing and still be winning in comparison to the big three, but instead they’ve slowly and steadily been helping the gaming community to give Windows the middle finger by making huge contributions to Linux gaming.
Honestly, its downright shameful how many companies have forgotten that a good way to make money from customers is simply to treat them nicely while they’re buying your goods.
Yeah, but its profits (for 2025 at least) are <1/100th of that - so that valuation is bound to collapse very quickly…
And of course it’ll end up being the regular people who get screwed when that rug pulls.
Or that they had to actually hide that they were a Nazi.
Turns out companies and governments are more than happy to do business with a billionaire Nazi as long as he doesn’t step on their toes too much
Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn’t have a single* truly profit-making venture under him.
How the bubble around him hasn’t burst yet I don’t know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.
*Edit: Forgot about SpaceX, which actually has made itself a decent chunk of money - about $15.5 billion in 2025 - but I doubt that alone is capable of propping up his nearly $500 billion personal valuation.
Oh I get you. I never said I wouldn’t also be having a panic attack upon finding out what I’d accidentally just done either…
But I can with certainty tell you for damn sure that Kiedis’ reaction was the WRONG reaction to have.
Sounds like the sort of thing they’ll propose and put to a vote…
Only to all vote no on it, then gaslight their audience that they defeated yet another left-wing agenda
In my work, plenty. And I can fairly confidently say that telling someone’s age by their looks isn’t always easy.
Which is to say that it isn’t an entirely unrealistic scenario, and could be forgiven if one actually tried to remedy the situation upon learning of their mistake, rather than going for a second turn (yuck)
Its forgivable that a 20 year old might accidentally end up in this situation, not having realised that she was only 14 until she said so…
But you know what a normal person does when they realise they just accidentally had sex with someone underage?
They take them back home to their family and apologise profusely. They don’t have sex with them a second time round! That truly is some child predator behaviour right there.
Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you’re doing new research, so you’re presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.
Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they’re writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you’re much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them. In fact at that stage, I’d bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you’re barking up the wrong tree.
Genuinely. As a student I don’t think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%. There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone’s works.
I remember one lecturer telling me that they don’t really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they’re looking for patterns in what it highlights.
Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.
The only reason most non-Boomers I know even have a Facebook account nowadays is using Messenger (though I do wish they’d move to something else)
Honestly. You need only try to listen to music or a podcast with open headphones near to a road to see how quickly it gets drowned out by even just having a car pass by.
Its annoying having to crank my music up to a relatively uncomfortable level just so I can hear it without having ANC.
Though ironically enough I do find the low, relatively quiet humming of a spinning fan comforting.
Honestly. It feels like way more people nowadays are way less conscientious of their noise pollution.
Like no I don’t want to hear you doom-scrolling through Instagram, no I don’t want to hear your playlist, and I’d really rather not have to listen to both ends of your phone conversation either.
If you need your ears open, then get a set of open earphones or bone-conducting headphones. Unless you go for the top brands, neither are all that expensive - and most will offer better sound quality than your phone on full blast in the first place!
As someone with light sensitive eyes, I sympathise with you on street lights and cars.
The pure white LEDs being put into every streetlight and car on the road nowadays are so unnatural and harsh to look at, and (for me at least) way more physically irritating to look at than the same brightness of warm lighting.
I hate them with a passion, and sincerely hope that governmental bodies will look to ban/limit their outdoor use in favour of warmer lighting.
Damn. I didn’t realise these AI tech-bros were moon-lighting in necromancy nowadays.
But seriously though, that is ghastly. Let the memory of the dead rest in peace you money-hungry ghouls.
Good grief… You need only look back less than 20 years ago to the 2008 housing bubble, or 25 years ago to the early 2000’s .com bubble to see that AI has all the same hallmarks.
There’s far too much money going in, and not enough money going out.
I just hope that people’s retirement funds don’t end up in the fallout.
“Could” is doing about as much lifting in this article as Atlas lifting the world.
I’m holding my reservations until something actually comes along
I can’t help but feel like a real life Santa, who famously gives gifts to children of all creeds, would not side with ICE agents…
I think they’d all be on the naughty list, and he’d be pelting coal at them instead.