Its true though, unless you can find your purpose in life. Gotta be more to life than transient hits of dopamine

Western companies haven't thought about long term value in decades

Meta essentially forces every instagram user to install threads....so it's more forced growth than natural growth

No, they don't. They do heavily push suggested Threads posts in the IG feed, though.

Seems like a lot of adults yearn for having a mommy and daddy take care of everything for them

Alternately, most computer vendors actively interfere with your independence and force you into the cloud in various ways with your computers and phones.

Netflix and other streaming sites have ads on some paid subscriptions. First they start with ad free subs, then introduce ads and introduce a higher priced tier to get rid of ads

Can't you just stop subscribing when that happens? You aren't signing a 5 year contract.

So if one supermarket sold expired food, we should avoid another supermarket that has not been doing that for 10 years? Google/Youtube doesn't own Netflix. If anything, the reasonable response would be to unsub Netflix and sub its competitors, like, uh, Youtube.

No, if all the big supermarkets sell expired food from time to time to meet profitability expectations, there is no reason to believe one will be so unique as to be able to resist using the same industry standard, especially when it already has a much bigger expired food business

This was a thing back in the windows 95 days...but is no longer an issue.

I wonder how far away from critical mass where the amount of ads just push people off of tech entirely. I know it has started for me

This isn't about supporting babies, this is about the government pumping up the stock market

AI will be the end of civilization

https://x.com/Benioff/status/549339156854214656 | https://archive.today/uOiay

It depends on your view of who should have the most say...state gov or federal gov

Conservatives flip on this depending on who is in the White House. Right now, the fed should run everything. Should Dems take back the White House then they will be back to supporting states' rights.