Samsung and Sony have been able to waterproof phones with removeable batteries in the past. Don't let Apple's complaints fool you into thinking it can't be done, it's just an excuse for planned obsolescence.

The primary excuse for the API change, to charge AI companies for Reddit's data, doesn't hold water. After the change goes into effect, AI companies can just switch from the API to web scrapers. It'll require marginally more processing power, which AI companies already have in spades.

You can't tell me that Black Adam was better than The Flash.

Black Adam was just a montage of The Rock flexing and looking stern. The plot was non-existent. The whole movie, I just wanted to turn it off and do something better with my time, but I was curious to see if there were going to be any redeemable scenes. I regret waiting till the end to find out there were not.

The Flash was a genuinely enjoyable popcorn flick, if you were willing to overlook the unfinished CGI.

Because not everyone has the same anecdotal experience as you?

It is common in wars to fight and talk at the same time. Sometimes talking is done via secret back channels which the public will not find out about until many years after the war.

It is not possible to only talk when fighting has stopped, because for fighting to stop, you either need to negotiate a ceasefire by talking, or one side has to be annihilated, and then there is no one left to talk to.

Because the car didn't recognize it as a red light, probably due to all the green lights that were facing a similar direction.

The issue is not the speed at which it took the turn, but that it cannot distinguish which traffic lights are for the lane the car is in.

...pen is... is what, class? The pen is mightier than the...

Because teleportation is murder. Whatever comes out on the other side may look and act like you, but isn't you, because you're now dead for having been disassembled by the teleporter.

The Hamburglar?

She needn't worry about manually optimizing battery wear, and, in fact, the most harmful thing you can do to a battery is to fully deplete it frequently.

Educate her about built-in optimized battery charging. iPhones and some Androids have it.

When it comes to enshitification, no one wants to go first. But once a company with enough clout to absorb and survive the backlash does, it's open season for everyone else.

The United States is one of the few countries in the world where people born on its soil to alien parents are automatically granted US citizenship. However, citizens by birth are not necessarily "natural born", as the phrase has been a subject of judicial debate.

Makes sense. The narrow diameter of the hole alludes to the limited server capacity of each Lemmy instance before it becomes unusable, and the length is a metaphor for the dimension of time. Thusly, the series of tubes is represented.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and I'm all out of bubblegum.

Since Steve Huffman idolizes Elon, just waiting for Reddit to copycat in 3... 2... 1...

Doing this would hurt Reddit far more than the APIcalypse has, as the vast majority of people who browse Reddit, and thus view ads, are lurkers who don't log in.

Of course the people in charge are shitty for creating the team, but it boggles my mind how the workers also found joy in shitting on customers.

In the modern world of fiat currencies, crypto currencies, stocks, and other fictitious denominations of value, I wouldn't assume that having great wealth necessarily means that you are hoarding resources away from the greater public. In fact, people with massive bank accounts cannot withdraw all of their money even if they tried, because banks only hold a fractional reserve on the assumption that the overall sums of withdrawals will be balanced out by the overall sums of deposits.

Money by itself is worthless, it is tokens to be traded for goods and services. No matter how much money you have, you cannot buy more than what is willingly for sale to you, and money that sits never spent may as well not exist.

If a hacker got into your bank account, and added many zeros without your consent or knowledge, are you now a bad person?

Too tired to read logical arguments? Comfortable in your assumption that all rich people are bad people, based on your distaste for the few famous rich people who are constantly in the news? The vast majority of the world's billionaires prefer to stay anonymous.

Not that I'm pointing out any specific rich people as good people, I'm just pointing out the illogic of automatically linking a person's moral qualities with their wealth without knowing anything else about them. Would you assume the contrapositive, that all poor people are good people?

In this entire debate, you haven't made any logical arguments. You have only started and ended with a single assumption, that being in possession of great wealth inherently makes you a bad person.

I'm currently reading the Ender's Game series, and just finished the 2nd book, Speaker for the Dead. Mild spoilers follow.

Ender has been doing a lot of near-lightspeed travel, so due to time dilation, he is now about 3000 years old. He has a sentient AI friend who has been making investments in his name during his travels, so he has inadvertently become possibly the wealthiest human in existence. However, he never asked his friend to make those investments, and he only found out when he asked for her help with a problem one day. His wealth is rarely mentioned for the rest of the book.

He wasn't living a life of luxury before he found out about his wealth, and still doesn't, and he's too busy with protagonist stuff to devote any time to philanthropy; money just isn't part of his identity or decision making. He helps lots of people in his adventures, but not using his money, and most things he needs can't be bought anyway. His wealth is just another tool to be used as needed, but it's far from his most useful or important one.

Maybe someone stepped on the USB cord and broke a connector.