Because kids are addicted to social media

This is lemmy, it’s full of literal children

Yes.

There’s always demand for heroin too. Demand doesn’t mean it’s good.

No, I disagree with the “sometimes”.

I’m not like, attending a protest rally or anything. I think it’s perfectly fine to spend literally 7 minutes of my day telling people that this movie is shit.

You “no one should ever express disagreement with anything” people need to chill.

Fuck you, minecraft is excellent. You just don’t like it because it’s popular.

This movie is bullshit but minecraft is excellent.

Yes a thousand percent. You can entertain young children by showing a dancing clown on a colorful flashing screen for 3 hours straight. Kids will love it. But that doesn’t make it a good movie.

A good kids movie is not a movie that appeals to kids. It’s a good movie that also appeals to kids.

Lemmy is way too edgy to enjoy good games that are also popular.

we’re pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don’t want to end up there ourselves

The last 2-3 chapters are explicitly socialist talking points

My high school English class (in the Deep South) explicitly left those chapters out of our study of The Jungle lol.

Oh neat

They only care about profitability

It’s not even profitability. It’s about what looks good on a resume.

New projects look good. Maintaining old projects doesn’t.

Wait mine does that automatically, it’s actually pretty creepy and I’ve been meaning to figure out how to disable it or at least make it ask for permission

Sure, if that makes you feel better

Obviously data is still collected after that, but that’s not the same as testing

Semantics. It’s literally the same thing, just called something different.

No matter how much testing they get beforehand, at some point they’ll be on public roads. And when they first get access to public roads, that will be a test. That’s just the only possible way for any new technology to come into being.

There will be testing on public roads whether you like it or not, it’s inherent to how any new thing works.

Testing?

Fun fact: this is illegal in many areas

Another fun fact: most shops just do it anyway

Ever? What kinda conservative bullshit lol

I live in the land of bad drivers, and long haul truckers almost NEVER cause accidents. The cause is almost always a passenger vehicle, even if a truck is involved. Truckers get trained.

“Connection error: could not connect to truck, please reload and try again”

Oops, just crashed

I’d love it, I’d go back to school for one

Play so many video games

I think sleeping would negate the purpose though, you need to be able to see when something is wrong and take control of the vehicle

Yeah, if it comes with a tapering requirement over several years I think it’s an excellent idea that saves jobs and also helps ensure safety.

https://blog.privacyguides.org/2022/04/21/grapheneos-or-calyxos/

There are two kinds of people in this world

Those who are able to extrapolate from incomplete data

The underlying analogy was totally wrong though because it misses the point of why people are so angry about it. The payment model is integral to understanding the entire point of the discussion.

It doesn’t matter. Whatever argument you’re making, you’re missing the point of the OP.

Because the analogy I drew was in line with the OP. And you said you were making a totally different argument. So whatever argument you’re making is irrelevant.

Well then, whatever argument you’re making, which I note you refuse to elaborate on, you’re missing the point.

That’s my point, your analogy was a bad one so I made a new one.

I read more, and I changed my mind. I think it’s fair to require games to state a minimum time frame of support. Like say, a year. And if they cancel the game before then, you get a full refund including microtransactions etc.

It’s not a good analogy. Buying a one time use ticket to an amusement park is a very different thing than purchasing a game.

A better analogy would be buying a season pass to an amusement park, which then abruptly shuts down 3 months later.

Someone is very addicted to Facebook games rofl

I see articles all the time that don’t specify the country.

I think that would be a good blanket rule for every post. If it’s a news article, list the country.

It’s more about the early 20s people I may or may not interact with.

Had a potential tinder date mention bubble color. That saved me an evening of finding out how stupid they were.

Yeah but typically when people come into these threads going “huhuhu stupid Americans with their SMS” it turns out they’re on WhatsApp, like much of the rest of the world. Which is just hilariously stupid.

There should probably be a sticky post on every article about anything US related. Something like,

“DEAR NON-AMERICANS (ESPECIALLY EUROPEANS). THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT AN AMERICAN PHENOMENON. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COME INTO THIS THREAD AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT. YOU MAY SIMPLY MOVE ON. CHEERS.”

Seriously, it’s a good 1/4 of the posts.

Teens have no idea what privacy is.

It’s fun because “clothes” and “accent” can be verbs, and given their position in the clause it almost looks like they should be but then you realize it makes no sense.