Cars, and all the resulting infrastructure.
Ruined city structures and, to an extent, local communities. Small corner stores and tight-knit communities have vanished in favour of giant shopping malls meant to serve everyone in a huge radius.
I don’t know if I’ve read of any Apple fans who don’t think this is creepy or at the very least wildly unnecessary as a feature.
Shame they never declared War on Disease.
There is that, but I’d also argue quite a lot of people would be against this proposal because they don’t want a drivers licence really; they just don’t live in a walkable area but want to get to work and be able to shop and the licence and owning a car is just a means to an end. If you’re a competent driver, having to retake the test would be a pain in the ass and your reward effectively is “You may continue to exist in society.”
Getting the letter that you’re due for a test would be more frustrating than a jury duty summons; jury duty pays.
The elderly resent the prospect of losing their licence for exactly that reason; it puts them at the mercy of family and expensive taxis to be able to feed themselves.
In a sane world, yes we’d all recognise driving can be dangerous and tests are sensible, but in that world you wouldn’t need a car to do basic shit either.
Smartphones are the most useful thing ever day-to-day… So I want to keep those, like keep all the text and call and email stuff, keep the games I guess, but somehow also go back to the days when the Internet was something to peruse for an hour or so a day on the computer.
There’s a lot of “Heal the political divide” being said to mean “meet them halfway” when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how “Heal the healthcare class divide” means “Help poor people see doctors affordably”.
Shame I can’t boycott because this was a boring product update and I wasn’t gonna buy it anyway.
I may have bought in completely to Apple’s ecosystem…. But at this point it’s more because I hate every other tech giant slightly more.
Everyone has something to hide. That’s why I’m not posting my online banking password on Facebook or letting anyone install cameras in my toilet.
I found it to be a struggle to find a non-smart TV that was decent…
call them occasionally.
I’ll text. Take it or leave it.
… Well great, now I have to check whether my television has a goddamn microphone for some reason. I didn’t think to check because it’s a television.
Never connected it to the Wifi though.
I got rid of my home deep fryer for health reasons. It is dangerously easy, cheap, and quick to make quality fries…
Feels nicer to believe it’s all because of some nefarious pranksters than accept nature is random and cruel and viruses really can arise at any time and just tear down your world. If it’s all fake, there’s a tangible enemy and someone to blame.
At least the images clogging your search results were real images, not simulacrum…
What do you mean? All that stuff experienced shortages.
A healthy conspiracist might notice that these memes got disseminated like mad during COVID, lest the masses get socialism-curious.
COVID should have provided the basis for the biggest labour movement in history. Instead the biggest protest in Australian history was not in aid of higher pay, extending guaranteed sick leave, more essential services, expanding healthcare and socialising all medicine, or even stopping climate change; it was in aid of ending lockdowns.
Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it’s also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose…
Also, I miss Pinterest.
“Let’s just say, she’s unlearning her conception of attraction” is the woke way of saying a girl is an easy lay.