Biden was one of the most consumer friendly presidents in a while. He did away with a lot of nonsense fees, forced airlines to be more transparent, among other things.
Yup and it's also worth mentioning that wage theft is the largest source of theft in the United States. Employers steal more wages from employees than shoplifting or basically any other form of theft, combined. Wage theft makes up 4x more theft than the next largest, which is larceny.
the fact that you can imprison people, but the most you can do to a corporation is fine them, is evidence enough that america supports profit over humans
Apple is using the conservative approach, which is to misrepresent their starting position by moving the goal posts to an extreme. Then they bargain towards the "middle". It creates the illusion of bargaining.
So Apple is throwing a huge tantrum and withholding features from the EU to act like this is a much bigger deal than it is. This gives Apple a lot more bargaining room after the EU bitch slapped them.
Apple likely already has an API they could enable and be done with this. They won't do that. Apple needs exclusivity with new feature releases because they don't do things all that well anymore(Siri, maps, etc, nobody uses those because there are better alts available on ios).
But yeah Apple is just starting way to the extreme so they have more room to bargain. Hopefully the EU sees through this, again, and doesn't budge.
>Apple needs exclusivity with new feature releases because they don't do things all that well anymore(Siri, maps, etc, nobody uses those because there are better alts available on ios).
Siri was okay for a very brief window after release and then dreadful ever since and Apple Maps was never good, but has gotten better. Etc maybe more valid idk
Commafeed looks nice. Can it also auto download a full article and strip any kind of formatting and ads? That's kinda what I'm looking for. And then have an LLM filter on top of that to filter out all the stuff I don't care about.
the whole "there are easier ways to do things so i never develop a skillset" is a big problem nowadays, imo. There are always easier ways to do stuff but in the long run they aren't the better way to do something because you wind up learning a system instead of how to do something.
i'll use my roommate as an example. Dude uses a knife sharpener system but can't actually sharpen a knife with a stone. The second his system doesn't work he can't actually sharpen a knife. All he knows is how to use the system. I see this in a lot of people nowadays. They know how to follow some instructions but the connections to why are never made.
As a society our basic skillsets are extremely atrophied because capitalism has turned everything into a pay-to-save-time system, or something.
It’s not a “nowadays” problem. People have always been like that. People probably stopped routinely learning how to ride horses once once cars started getting popular.
a lot of places do it automatically so everyone is paying slightly more on every purchase. A lot of gas stations openly advertise a lower cash price.
There is a local supermarket chain that doesn't accept credit cards at all because they'd have to raise their cash price.
Everyone pays for credit card fees. Not just the people using CCs. Then CC companies pocket those crazy high fees while giving a lil bit back as "rewards".
This is a good example of a system we've normalized in this country which harms most people.
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