Church seems to fill the hobby need and has some of the same core aspects

• common interest
• regular meet ups
• online and in person groups

Honestly replacement really could be as simple as finding a group that fits your hobbies (I’m in a writing group for example)

Alternatively volunteer, it checks a lot of the same boxes (sense of community, trying to make things better) with none of the religious bits (assuming you find an agnostic organization)

Depends on the product, a lot of things exist to be ad bate, and don’t really serve a wider purpose. Tshirts is an example that comes to mind where people just buy dozens of designs they never wear.

The whole premise has become shopping is the fun activity, the product is just the waste from that activity that needs to be discarded.

So I guess sans ads we would see a lot less arbitrary products (and places like Amazon would take a hit [yay])

I would be curious to know how e-commerce would change though as without ads people would likely gravitate to the big box stores

This so usually stored on the photos as exif data

I genuinely like the idea of higher density, as much as I like driving, having a city that’s walkable and with good transit (which density incentives) would be a dream.

My current city is a sprawling suburb and it’s almost an hour by bus to do a trip that takes 10 minutes by car.

Also thank you for expanding on this!

I don’t entirely follow? I’m totally open to alternatives to making sure the money stays where it is, I just don’t immediately understand the mechanism.

Oop I read through the top comments and probably missed it! ^^

UBI needs to be combined with rent and price controls if it is not, inflation will eat the benefits inside of a 5-year period and money will be siphoned up the chain.

Otherwise I am all for it.

I don’t disagree but in his defence pay phones used to be everywhere and are practically gone today vs relatively few telegraph offices.

I think this is because they are part of the Unicode standard so they’re just standard characters. That’s pure speculation though.

Red had is the go to on corporate, canonical has support too.

But honestly, and hike I’ve seen the support argument I’ve never actually seen someone engage with MS support, on the OS level at least. Generally family ends up helping, or they go to local IT shops, I imagine it would be similar for a Linux distro.

My vote is sock em boppers

I used to agree with that. But then Covid happened and I listened to people on the radio call in saying “we gotta let a few old people go to save the exonomy.” As though human life was an acceptable cost.

I genuinely thought people at least were ignorant to the death tole to then but I was mistaken. It got so bad the host cut off calls.

The vaccine then came out and I watched millions shun it, despite being shown to be safe and effective. Sure, some folks thought they were dangerous (disinformation and all) but that radio show told me, some people want the world to burn.

There are people who saw devastation and don’t get vaccinated because it’s an acceptable loss.

This is about 2 decades old now but a bunch of people tried something sorta like a pacing car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ

I actually ended up switching to Kagi for this exact reason. Google is basically AI at the start usually spouting nonsense then sponsor posts and then a bunch of SEO optimized BS.

Thankfully paying for search circumvents the ads and it hasn’t been AI by default (it has it but it’s off) and the results have been generally closer to 2010s Google.

No for sure I hear what you’re saying, onstar was just a handy example, other vehicles have OTA updates also and systems to disable the vehicle.

My point was the tech isn’t specific to BEV it’s becoming a “feature” in modern cars more broadly

This isn’t specific to electric cars, vehicles equipped with On Star can be remotely disabled in the event of theft (and by extension I imagine a legal injunction). I imagine this extends to other vehicles also.

The real problem is the OTA updates and always-online nature of modern vehicles, not necessarily what powers them.