Yeah, two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594377

Meanwhile, remember Logitech's Harmony remotes? They made you set up an online account too. Apologists mocked those of us who called that out, and then a couple months later Logitech shitcanned the entire product line and orphaned them all. I didn't quite LOL, but I enjoyed their come-uppance.

Interestingly, LaserDisc players, the best consumer video medium until the late '90s, mostly didn't have S-video outputs because the luma & chroma signals were mixed on the disc; providing a separate output for each wouldn't have gained you anything.

Of course some infantile shut-in or DoorDash shill downmodded my straightforward observation. Every day this site descends into Redditude.

However, the public hysteria over "big tech" should not be dragging Apple into everything, because developers are essentially the only aggrieved party. Unlike Google and Meta, Apple is not the gatekeeper to the Internet for millions of people. And I can almost always get a human being on the phone or chat from Apple, which today is truly worthy of praise.

When you force people to log in with their E-mail address, what percentage of the public also thinks they need to use their E-mail password? I'm going to guess at least half. Now, if that site is compromised by a hack or disgruntled employee or whatever, people's E-mail accounts are wide open and identity theft galore can ensue.

Not to mention that your E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. Combine that list with lists of common passwords, and you have a shitload of compromised E-mail accounts right there.

Nobody should have tolerated this amateur-hour policy, but here we are.

It's still an insulting rip-off.

Never use food-delivery services. Not only are they scammers, but they (and this is first-hand observation) mess with, eat, or take your food into a public shitter.

Why do you say that? That's backward. VTOL consumes a huge amount of energy, far more than a traditional rolling takeoff.

A motor is metal spinning in a magnetic field, powered by chemical reactions in a battery.

Which seems more likely to fail?

It is NOT a jet. I'm fully supportive of these innovators, but lying about what the product is hurts EVERYBODY.

Grow up.

Pathetic.

Furthermore, most of your gripes SUPPORT my point, except of course for the tired catch-alls of "slavery" and "racism." As for the rest of what you cite (mass incarceration, worker oppression, the "religious" oppressing others): THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

Then of course there's democracy, and the alleged "resilience" of the American people. What a joke. Voting rights are being rolled back across "red" states nationwide. And "we" once rebuilt destroyed cities like Chicago and San Francisco in a few years... but it took over a decade to replace TWO buildings in New York after 9/11. And what have we built since?

If you want to roll out time-honored issues, how about abortion? Now a significant portion of the USA wants to (and has been given the go-ahead to) use women as baby farms. Even IRELAND abolished this disgusting regime.

Anyway, instead of a strawman, just create your own original post.