The “chrome” part too.

Oh you’re fucked.

Like the other user said, this is clearly a problem if you allow any platform to exist. Let’s take this to an extreme extent. Say a company invents a platform that is 100% addicting, because they’ve figured out how to mind control you. Watching a single video means you will never stop using the platform and you will say whatever the creators want. Clearly that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. Things that social media sites do approximate that. They manipulate users brains into doing things that they normally wouldn’t do. This is why regulation exists. Clearly my example is farcical, but it’s meant to explain why you don’t allow just anything to exist. As a society, certain things are more dangerous than others, and we regulate those things.

Clearly this ban isn’t about that, it’s about a Chinese government doing something that the US government only wants US companies to be able to do.

Fiber needs like an 8” minimum bend radius… I think that’s for just a single strand.

Less about grammar and more about using the wrong word due to similarities, like loose vs lose. I think esl speakers in general have great grammar, but it also depends on their main language structure. For example certain root language speakers like Hindi or French tend to have great grammar until something comes up like “are you going to the park?” where they might say “you are going to the park?” Or something like “I am knowing the answer” instead of “I know the answer”. Same with Germanic language speakers with ordering, like “I to the store went”. I honestly don’t see these often, and they’re very easily recognizable as ESL language patterns, which is why I called them out as exempt. Because learning another language is hard. But if you speak English natively there’s no reason you should be misusing “lose vs loose”. They’re not even pronounced the same!

It’s mind numbing. I understand ESL speakers having trouble, and I understand being tired and messing stuff up in comments, but if you’re making a post you should be double and triple checking everything you wrote. It’s ridiculous.

Maybe yours did, but that’s not how it generally works.

Most people aren’t talking about investing with stocks. They’re talking about mutual funds and 401ks, which will grow if you just leave them be. If you try mucking around with them you’re going to be much worse off.

The iOS keyboard is one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever used. It is actively hostile towards what I’m trying to type.

Well you can install a menu bar app if you want. Just like you can with any other system. I don’t ever care about the weather so I want my menubar as clean as possible, so I use bartender to hide almost everything.

I know you’re trying to make a funny joke here, and I completely agree with the sentiment. I just want to point out a spot I think the story could be improved upon. People that hang out with the CEO don’t get 30k dollar raises. They get 100, 200, 300 thousand dollar raises, in the forms of stock. Bonuses are usually based on the performance of the company as well, so it’s more likely to be 100k plus bonus. I understand the difference might not seem that much, but people like me (I consider myself well off) don’t meet the ceo or play golf with anyone even within arms reach of the ceo, but I have gotten normal 10k bonuses and 30k dollar raises.

These people are so so so soooo much higher on the wealth spectrum that it doesn’t even compute. Like the people in Home Alone wouldn’t even be talking to the CEO level of wealth.

Everything you touch and use involves plastics and petrochemicals. Even stuff you wouldn’t think of like the coatings that allow street signs to reflect better and have massively improved safety. Lightbulbs? No more efficiency for you, most LEDs are on a plastic substrate. We will never get away from plastic, not at this point. You could make it so that food isn’t wrapped in plastic and that wouldn’t make a dent in our plastic use.

Huh we bought an expensive air fryer because my in-laws wouldn’t stop bragging about it. It was on super discount because bed bath and beyond was going out of business, but still super expensive. And I’ve never had any problem cleaning it, in fact it’s the easiest dish we own to clean, the grease just wipes out and the tray is removable.

There already are those documentaries? Jule or whatever it’s called has already been doing the exact same stuff that the tobacco industry did for literally a decade now.

Clean air act banned cfcs, not aerosols. Aerosols are just pressurized gases.

iOS literally prompts you to provide permission for that when you first start up your phone (either restore, or first use). So either you opted in or out but they’re pretty transparent about it.

Mlem is a lot better than Voyager. Better features, faster, has fewer errors messages. At least for me.