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trebuchet ,

North America makes its cities catered to cars rather than people and then people spread out into suburbs. Then North Americans say they can't make the cities suck less because the people are too spread out.

trebuchet ,

But how does that help capitalists make more money by eliminating their competition?

trebuchet ,

Try visiting a not ugly state like California.

trebuchet ,

Utah is gorgeous.

There are definitely parts of Socal that are ugly. Also parts that are sublime.

trebuchet ,

Could you walk me through what you see as these folks' hypocrisy? I don't get it.

Is somebody arguing that loan forgiveness should be a one time thing and no one after them should get it?

trebuchet ,

Isn't the lowest hanging fruit exactly what they're targeting, i.e. the people who currently have loans, and the higher hanging fruit all the other circumstances people are mentioning here like already paid off their loans or future student who will get loans or in your case people who forewent becoming a student due to the loans?

trebuchet ,

It's never too late to go back to school.

trebuchet ,

People always complain on Lemmy about Telegram and point at alternatives that are theoretically better in terms of security and privacy.

Yet the security and privacy on Lemmy are good enough that you routinely see governments complaining about how they can't get at the info on Telegram like this story here, all while Telegram has a UI and experience that blows every competing messenger completely away.

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

trebuchet ,

This article seems to omit the most important fact about headphones - how do they sound?

I love repairability and all, but it hardly matters if I don't want to use them in the first place because they traded off too much quality for repairability.

trebuchet ,

Nah I wasn't being sarcastic.

As I understand it, in engineering these types of mobile space constrained devices you essentially have a "budget" of space. Every hardware feature you include generally eats into this budget and if you want things to be user accessible or repairable it eats into this budget majorly.

That budget has to come from somewhere, so you can pay it with things like reducing the size of your battery or reducing the size of your drivers which in turn represents a reduction in sound quality.

trebuchet ,

The place you're talking about isn't even open during the hours being discussed. Which is the entire point of this post.

Who cares who is being loud are they disturbing the non-existent regular patrons?

trebuchet ,

It's crazy to me that people such as you unironically believe the position you're saying that American companies are easier to crack down on.

We are literally seeing concrete proof in action that domestic companies are much harder to crack down on or regulate. They are much better positioned to lobby and are currently using their immense political power to protect themselves while removing their foreign rivals. There isn't even talk of taking action against them because they are so politically powerful.

trebuchet ,

Wow optional is a big word here that should be at the very top of the article and this discussion.

trebuchet ,

If you're in the USA it seems clearly better to have Russian since they can do much less to affect your life and vice versa.

trebuchet ,

That's what I thought about the elephant tusk looking AirPods yet here we are.

The Reality Distortion Field sometimes makes things hard to predict when it comes to Apple products.

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Apple’s customers bought their iPhone knowing alternative stores are not available.

Your perspective seems to be to ignore the very existence of anti trust rules that stand for the proposition that even if the customer knows what they're getting in a free market capitalist transaction it can be illegal.

Can't your justification of Apple be used for every anti trust case? "AT&T’s customers bought their service knowing alternative rotary dial telephones manufactured by 3rd parties are not available."

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