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Calling their ad platform "auxiliary" when it's their core business is hilarious. You are completely out of your element here.

Then they should say that and frame their arguments around that. That's my entire point. Do you see any mention of public transportation improvements in the comment I originally replied to? No, you don't.

The movement has no hope if the movement is simply trying to get rid of cars. "Fuck cars" as they say.

Then either you're used to the mayhem and aren't seeing it, or you mostly stay away from where I was (between Houston and 42nd St mostly).

Regardless, are you really saying that "bikes are simply better at point-to-point transportation" for most people in Manhatten? Because that's absurd.

As you say it is technically the solution.

No, I said technically people will adapt and take the shitty and overrun public transportation because there's no other option. It's not a solution because it often drastically increases travel time, put people in danger because public transportation without proper security is much more dangerous, and overall it will rightfully piss people off.

The solution is improving public transportation. This isn't something that people are advocating for. They just want the cars out.

Excuse my language but I think it's worth it here: Dear fucking lord, if biking in Manhatten is your idea of bikes shining, then you are way out in left field.

In my week in Manhatten last month I saw several crashes (including a near miss with a sit-down scooter riding in the bike lane who had to bail and slide before nearly crashing into a crowd of pedestrians), pedestrians jumping out of the way of bikes who don't stop at red lights, and bikes swerving around car traffic barely getting by without taking out car mirrors or getting run over.

Biking in Manhatten is not for the faint of heart and not for anyone who isn't decently athletic.

You could have lauded the subway system, but you chose bikes?

If you remove car infrastructure in SF, for example, there are massive amounts of the city that will die because they lack adequate public transit options.

You remove mobility, and you remove any hope for underserved communities to survive, let alone improve.

Instead, you could advocate for MORE mobility via better public transportation. But you don't for some reason that I may never understand.

Why is it always framed this way? This is NOT the solution.

The solution is to build better public transportation options. That will necessarily include removing a decent amount of the car infrastructure, but you can't just remove car infrastructure and hope people adapt.

The way you frame it, it sounds like (and it often is the case with people framing it this way) that you think that if we remove car infrastructure, people will be forced to use other means of transportation to get around. And while technically true, all it will actually do is piss people off and make it so much harder to get around.

I've literally never in my life needed more than 400 results. What could you possibly be doing where you need over 400 results?

Severely gimped? Are you sure your use case doesn't just represent an extremely extremely small percentage of users?

I think the main thing here is to get a watch that matches what you want to get out of it.

I have a mid-range watch, an Omega, that I got new. It's automatic (meaning it's mechanical but it automatically winds as I swing my arm from walking). I wear it nearly every day and almost always just works. I don't mess with it "every other day" like OP, I mess with it every other month when I have to reset the 31 day date window on my watch because the month only has 30 days.

This matches my use better than even a smart watch, which requires more charging and maintenance than my automatic watch. Of course, I could buy like 10-20 apple watches for what I paid for it :)

The watch is 5 years old and it only loses around a second a day on average (it's rated for +-2 seconds). Incredible that it's completely mechanical, and it's part of why I think it's such a cool device to have.

I don't see many 5-star skill ratings, dual colored backgrounds (?), or unreadable fonts. Where do you see those? I would turn people away from that format if they asked my advice.

My resume, and the resumes I've seen aren't too far away from this format. More bullet points and a bit more detail than this, I guess. But otherwise pretty similar

Individually, no, but as part of the overall trend of in-car subscriptions for these kind of features, yes.

Cars, like houses, are in a special class of purchases that we as a society have decided need extra consumer protections because of the high cost involved.

Cars are often one of the most, if not the most, expensive purchases people will make in their lives. It's not unreasonable to me to have extra protections for those purchases.

It's cheaper to pay someone $20 an hour 24 hours a day for 20 years than it is to pay out the $4mil lawsuit for when that sensor fails.

Also, 8pm? How much time do you spend on commute

Leave work at 5 (hopefully!). Gym/exercise for an hour, commute for 30min, dinner for an hour. That's already 7:30pm. Add in chores or errands or distractions or whatever and 8pm comes quick.

Like yeah, I could start doing microwave dinners or not exercising or replace all my food with Huel like someone actually suggested in the comments here. Or move right next to the office or leave work early. But my god I'm not going to hyper optimize my life in order to maybe see people late on a weekday.

My whole point in this entire thread is that I socialize during work. At lunch, during breaks, between meetings, etc. Time I would have not been working anyway (because I'm not a robot). This is what people have been doing forever just fine.

More likely than other large companies to not have dark patterns, is probably the more correct sentence. It's especially correct with some of their similarly "non-core" products.

I remember moving off of Google Fi a couple years ago and it being incredibly easy to cancel and move my number. I didn't even have to call anyone. A few clicks and it was done. If you've ever tried to do anything with another phone service, you'll know that's unheard of.

Replace all food at home with Huel.

Oh dear, you've already lost me.

Why do so many people try to do the hard math when it comes to this? The reality is by the time I am able to go out on a weekday it's like 8pm. Very few of my peers, friends or not, want to go out late on a weekday after already having a long day.

If you're able to do better than that, then you are in an uncommon bracket.

By the time I work out, get home, cook dinner, eat dinner, clean, shower, it's like 8pm usually. No one around me is staying out past like 10pm on a weekday. Now I have the job of finding anyone who wants to hang out from 8pm to 10pm on a weekday when both/all of us are exhausted from a long day.

Doing the hard math and saying I have 6 hours is just theoretical. _Many_ people may socialize in the evenings, but I'd be surprised _most_ do.

prefer to socialize in other settings

Can someone shed some light on this? I'm in the office for at least 40 hours a week. Then each day I get home, cook dinner, clean, bathe, workout sometimes. I don't even have kids or a long commute.

If I'm not socializing at work, when am I doing it? Two days a week? That is bleeeeaak.

People are mostly talking about this as a moral failure, not as some kind of legal issue.

Why would this be different than any other password manager in that aspect?

"Evil" is far from the correct word here.

Great, that's $15m-$30m (if you accept that it's somehow $1500/unit to ship??). Only $50m-65m left to account for!

And once again (and again and again...), I'm not claiming the $80m number is a lie. You just can't take that number as fact when the only source is his twitter.

> https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1374619379929772034

But this isn't a lie. Come on.

One month after that tweet, Tesla announced selling 10% of their bitcoin stash, which they accumulated through their own purchases of bitcoin and customer transactions: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-sold-bitcoin-q1-proceed...

I have no idea how you get from that tweet to selling 10% of their bitcoin holdings without saying he lied. It's not like there was a massive time frame between the two.

And you picked one out of a ton of lies to attempt to refute. What about my other examples?

No one is saying that he is definitively lying about the $80m. Why do you keep saying that?

All I'm saying is that his tweet is not a reliable source for that number. We'd need another, more reliable source to confirm.

I'm accusing him of lying in the past, yes. He certainly exaggerates way more than he lies, but to say he hasn't lied publicly means you have your blinders on.

https://elonmusk.today/ has a looootttt of exaggerations that ended up being completely incorrect. It also has plenty of outright lies.

Just from scrolling a bit you can find plenty of indisputable lies:

Lie: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1374619379929772034 Lie: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239554148724737 Lie: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1078010341651492865

Just to link to a few.

Scrolling through the list, though, you can't help but know that Elon knows at least some of his exaggerations are bullshit, which would turn them into a lie. For example: https://twitter.com/brenttoderian/status/1557224539267817472 turns what seemed to be an exaggeration of a product being ready into a straight up lie.

Does knowingly miscategorizing facts count as a lie? Because I'm not convinced Elon is stupid enough to know that Twitter was not lying about bot numbers.

If $80m turns out to be $10m, is that a lie or an exaggeration?

It's possible they didn't mean at the same time. Minimum 1 in all situations, including going 5mph in traffic, where 2 might be a bit conservative.

I specifically said it may be true. He has a public and indisputable history of exaggerating and lying about a whole bunch of stuff, though, so he is not a reliable source for much.

While that $80m number may be true, his tweet is not a reliable source.

Why exclude the pandemic/remote work?

But to exclude it for a bit, my personal, super anecdotal and biased view is that those years were very different.

2003 had low hope for a better future, but there was a lot of action in the fallout of 9/11. It felt like we were at least trying, even if it ended up being a horrible try.

2013 I felt hope for a better future, but there wasn't a lot of action to make that a reality.

2023 and there's zero hope for a better future and we're doing nothing about it.

We need at least hope or action.

I'll usually listen to podcasts when alone as a restaurant. If I've got a wall seat where video won't distract people, I'll certainly sometimes bring up youtube/netflix. Might be a bit rude to the other patrons depending on the restaurant to watch videos in their view while eating.

Why are you so surprised, though? Am I supposed to just sit there and stare at the wall?