HobbitFoot @ HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club

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An iPad is a tablet.

The problem is that most people use tablets as a media consumption device, so the need to update is far less than a phone. Even then, the smartphone market has cratered as justification for flagship phones have dropped. As tablets have a lower demand than phones, that market has completely dried up.

It makes the existing situation worse for Trump. It could be the straw that breaks the camel's back or another scandal to add to the pile.

How do you want to define yourself? Who do you want to be a decade from now? Do you have goals?

If you can start to define your future self, you can define your present self as trying to target your future self. You can also change your definitions over time; after all you choose them.

In this case, private equity isn't the only villain.

Print journalism has been decimated over the last generation as it has become the expectation that the articles should be free. The money that used to support journalism is mostly gone.

The writer is focusing only in their own experiences, but the industry as a whole can't support many people who blog as is it is their job.

Social media companies created algorithms to allow people to find content without having to look for it. This drove users and content creators to their sites and off the web.

For social media companies, a user's value comes from having an account, so they have a vested interest in locking away content. For content creators, it is a lot easier to get noticed if an algorithm provides the advertising and some sites now allow for monetization within their walled garden. For users, they get content that never ends.

But you don't need a fiat currency to operate a capitalist system. You also don't need a capitalist system to implement a fiat currency.

But you don't need capitalism for a minority ruling class to treat everyone under their control as a disposable resource.

A lot of cyberpunk gets into the nitty gritty details of technology like cybernetics, genetic engineering, and other medical adjacent technologies. They are technologies with obvious pluses and minuses.

Even then, it is common in world building to reject certain technologies. Star Trek famously has the Federation reject generic engineering due to the Augment Wars. Dune takes place in a post-AI world because the current power structure was built on destroying AI government systems.

As for your point about cybernetics versus wearable tech, eye glasses are a centuries old technology to correct vision. Yet, we have Lasik, a technology with non-zero risks to eyesight.

And to add onto what you're saying, most countries have a form of licensure for various activities to make sure that ignorance isn't a valid excuse. Driving is likely the most common license that a person can get, and that requires written and practical tests at minimum.

I'd tell you, but they'd be American bands you've never heard of before.

It is an economic theory that is a useful critique of capitalism.

It is also used as a justification to create dog shit political systems.

The first crash is going to get the cops called, so I doubt you are going to be able to crash dozens of cars unless you're doing it all at once.

Better to get your CDL and park a tractor-trailer and kill the air brakes.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

There is also an historic shift in the power dynamic in gender in American society where women don't need men like they did a generation or two ago. You have a case now where there is more competition required for men because been don't just have to compete with each other, they have to compete with being alone.

I don't know. A lot of us here are autistic.

Depends on the features.

We've already see baseball start to respond to some of the problems you listed, but I see it continuing to be a major issue for most leagues as the teams have got caught up in the asset appreciation seen in other kinds of assets.

We don't really know. I expect things to degrade until we hit a constitutional crisis of some form.

Saudi Arabia tends to have a tradition of ambitious projects that fail due to various reasons.

I was being recruited on to work on that project and I worked with some engineers who ended up working on it.