I think that ship has sailed under the current administration.

2025 when websites implement their own blue screens of death.

In other words whatever size the audience is for a mini phone they are further fragmented into people who want a flagship phone vs mid range phone vs budget phone.

And those market segments are too small to make it worth Apple or even most android manufacturers effort.

I don't think it's complacency I think the existing form factor is just overwhelmingly popular and good enough for most people.

Catching a cab from the airport in a new country after a flight is a pretty common thing to do no matter where you're going. Depending on flight length you might well be too tired to really navigate public transport in a new city in a foreign language.

There's not a lot to learn from that.

Tackling climate change would've required people to potentially change their lives, possibly drastically and in doing so likely have a lower standard of living.

And they didn't want to.

They don't want to drive less, they don't want to fly less, they don't want smaller houses, they may say they want to do something about climate change but only so long as it doesn't actually meaningfully effect them.

As a species we're not willing to sacrifice enough to solve this problem and I think we're probably out of time at this point.

The chinese want to invade Taiwan because they think it's a rebel province, their only consideration is whether the US will oppose them militarily if they do.

Emotion is something you feel, not something you decide to allow yourself to feel.

Like, if I hear about someone being raped or murdered, how am I not going to have an emotional reaction of sadness or anger to that? And ultimately what use was that emotion? I cannot prevent the event happening, it has already happened, I am just a voyeur to someone else's tragedy.

Most of the news is like that. It's events that have already happened, that I can do nothing about but I'm vaguely meant to be up to date with because.... reasons? Some vague concept that everyone is meant to have an inch deep understanding of current events so they've got something to gossip about?

I truly don't see the point or the benefit.

The news just made me sad, sad and angry most of the time, it's just a stream of 24/7 misery and if there's not enough misery going on locally the news will find misery from around the world to fill the run time.

They have these relatively obscure movies that aren't really worth much so why not throw them on youtube and give them the best possible chance of being watched.

I think it's a great move honestly, I know a tv show from the UK that's been doing the same, hopefully more shows/movies will do it as well.

I run a tobacco related subreddit (cigars) and we are technically NSFW, presumably to stop ads running on the sub?

Anyway, the tobacco subs occasionally get this "closed for lack of moderation" message when someone from reddit is doing an investigation into something.

In our case organising private sales or trades via reddit is against their TOS, which we (mods) enforce by removing posts trying to sell or trade. However they also don't like it if someone posts whatsapp or other chat links to places where trading might happen. Last time we got that "closed for lack of moderation" message it was down to a whatsapp link that stayed up too long.

I know they do this with porn subs as well, but I'm unsure what the exact criteria for triggering it is, must be some behaviour they don't like going unmoderated.

At any rate, I would guess maybe this was a fuckup with some automated system? I don't know that they could properly "investigate" all these subs in one go?

I think it might go this way because people feel like they want to "own" their "cars". Especially in America it's a big part of the culture, so I can see being able to buy the coach part as being a popular compromise.

Powering electric cars is already cheaper, but right now they're less convenient, with self driving they become as convenient or more than gas vehicles. You no longer have to stop and charge anywhere because there's a fresh "horse" waiting to be hooked up while your existing one drives off to a charging station, all the downsides are automated away.