fred-kowalski

Agreed. To add, Car loans in the US come standard minimum 60 months, often longer. It’s not a liquid market where consumers can switch easily once they’ve made a buying decision. In my family, we keep cars roughly the same amount of time it takes to rear a newborn to college age. There is very little interaction with “the market”.

Wait, I thought the whole point of moving your factory to Texas was to get away from those pesky unions.

I’ll be in a status meeting with my Canadian colleagues. I sense an opportunity to mess with them, here.

I think as the enshitification cycle speeds up on the net, the tolerance threshold from users will go down and they’ll switch earlier. MAYBE this will help interoperability. Trying out being less cynical lately and I’m not sure I believe myself.

Thing is, the folks that are pushing these technologies don’t give rip about safety OR jobs, just profits. The government should be considering all these things, they mostly are concerned about getting re-elected and scoring culture war partisan points. Tech doesn’t work in a vacuum. It is naive and dangerous to think is neutral.

I think the ethical choices are not what you laid out. In this case choose between relationship and job. People do it all the time.

Not parent commentor, but I hate to see prosecutions feed the news cycle for visibility and outrage. Plus, it fires up the base. Def a dual edged sword.

Even when someone is really raging in comments, I purposely frame it as sarcasm so I don’t engage. But here I am, engaging. Yep, just like Reddit for me.

To serve the thread topic, I have about an hour a day free for some social media, regardless of the platform mix. Gave up Reddit as it got bumped.