iOS/iPad OS has had a file manager for years? It’s not great, and heavily restricted, but it for sure exists.

Most definitely. Like another commenter pointed out, music and movies don’t change but the way you experience them does. Theaters, Event halls become larger and more crowded on a kind of curve as well which makes them more expensive while also becoming less enjoyable.

I often wonder why there aren’t more copies of things rather than making the existing one bigger. The population of my city is bigger than the population of the bigger city an hour away did when they first had the airport i have to drive to, or the bigger stores and restaurants when they first opened. Why don’t we have more of those things even though in the last 30 years we’ve grown to what was at that time large enough to support that expansion?

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I think the difference for music, movies, books, etc is that the product itself doesn’t change in substance or function when more people are using it. Parks, Cars and the infrastructure that enables them, Restaurants, and other experiential products are negatively impacted by widespread usage. Cars are less enjoyable because of traffic. Lines to get on space mountain make the whole experience worse than you imagine the ride itself being. All this stuff is marketed as a fantasy version of the actual experience you have in a way that isn’t the same as when other people are cringe with your music.

Just like theme parks, the idyllic vision of the product is when you’re the only one around enjoying the product. The reality of LOTS of people enjoying the product while you do inherently reduces the appeal.

Right but ICE vehicles pay for every mile the use the roads through gas taxes. EVs do not

It should be noted that this is important because it means that EVs degrade infrastructure more than a lighter ICE. So while they don’t fuck up the environment from emissions as much, they cost more in repairs to roads and bridges and such without contributing to those funds through the gas tax.

We could really use some phantom thieves to steal the hearts of these leaders with distorted desires.

Are we fucking cooked? Is this going to start a series of retaliatory strikes that brings about the use of nukes? This shit fucking sucks.

I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but I think NYC would be off limits because it’s his “home” where he “has the tallest building because of 9/11” and other dumbass beliefs. Basically, he wouldn’t want to harm his precious Trump Tower.

LA though? Yeah, he might just fuckin do it.

i started a new job (remote, with a chill af boss) that only offered 2 weeks of vacation after the NPO i worked for got bought by a for-profit and i forecasted that we’d be stripped of our 6 weeks PTO accrual (I was right). I stored up my first year’s PTO so i could use it in march for a week-long vacation we usually do for spring break. in january i learned that it’s apparently wiped clean on Jan 1. I now, weirdly, use 0 hours of PTO in a year, but I always take time off when i need it. probably adds up to more than the 2 weeks i’m supposed to have. but i got burned by the rules so i’ve decided i don’t need to play by them. so yeah, i’m not “just accepting it”

Yeah, they curate their service with people they specifically invite. At least for a while, no idea if it’s still this way, every channel owner on Nebula was a part-owner to the service and had a vote in major platform decisions.

I think this rules, personally. It makes me feel great about subscribing knowing that everyone there has a vested interest in the platform as a whole succeeding and producing worthwhile material. On the flip side, there are really good channels on YouTube that I wish were on Nebula, and I think would be a good fit, but there’s not really a process for suggesting them to the platform for invitation.

Nebula is an invite basis

I’m travelling to Florida right now and I can’t view pornhub or any if it’s owned brands, which is a lot of adult content right now. It’s apparently like this in 17 states. That’s a self-imposed block, but it’s because those states have ID check laws that are so invasive that they’re rather not serve to those states.

Lmao… let’s start counting the laws he hasn’t broken. I’m so done with trying to care about each instance of him breaking the law. He’s unfit for office, has been impeached twice, and he deserves only jail for as long as his miserable heart will last.

I really hate to defend this guy because he clearly sucks. But honestly: smart move. Your phone password and much of the contents of your phone should be considered speech and you shouldn’t be compelled to testify against yourself. That said, if this phone was government property then he shouldn’t have been the only one capable of unlocking it, which is a policy failure.