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I use and abuse mine, running multiple agents, and I know that I'd spend the entire month of fees in a few days otherwise.
So it seems like a ploy to improve their product and capture the market, like usual with startups that hope for a winner-takes-all.
And then, like uber or airbnb, the bait and switch will raise the prices eventually.
I'm wondering when the hammer will fall.
But meanwhile, let's enjoy the free buffet.
It satisfies my urge, and it sounds funny.
Tricky little buggar that one.
Still easier to avoid than rooting, but easy to get wrong by mistake.
I'm sure you'll get mostly useful feedback.
But it almost never is, isn't it?
That's another name for spam.
This is one more good reason to never sign in on your android phone.
It's not as good as using graphene, but it's easier, less work, and you can't brick your phone.
The drawback, of course, is that you can't use your map, youtube or gmail account since signing in in any of those logs in the entire device.
But with microg, fdroid and aurora, it's very practical.
E.G: youtube has a disproportionate share of the attention market, therefore can control what people think, and they are heavily influenced by big companies that will tell users what they can say or not on the platforms.
Your account on youtube is linked to your phone, emails, photos, calendar... So do something that one of those companies don't want you to do because it's not profitable for them,
And of course, they change the rules of the time.
That's why I don't have a google account. But most people are not capable of such insights, they don't have the knowledge to realize how much they can be screwed.
In fact, we could have that cross-language.
If you think people self-censoring themselves on social media is now a problem (the "unlive" novlang is always such a dystopic hint to me), you have seen nothing.
Markdown + pandoc is not the same: you need already basic formatting. You have to think about the formatting. For example, math formulas and code are gnarly to type, so I have snippets for them to avoid getting out of the flow.
But LLM don't need that, you can just dump your thoughts, and they format it.
They are very decent at inferring the context of stuff and will mark code, maths, titles so on farely decently. This lets you focus on the work of making it looks nice.
Don't get me wrong, I use signal a lot and I love it, but presenting signals as an alternative to whatsapp is only going to disappoint people.
Telegram is closer, but neither e2e encrypted nor open source.
Still, I would say if you are in America and not dealing with state or industrial secrets, getting spied on by russians is better than by meta.
Basically, I use both: signals for my privacy oriented friends that will go through the ordeal of using signal, and telegram with the normies so that at least they get of the zuck train.
Around 1990, several key shifts occurred in U.S around cancer:
- Federal Advertising Restrictions (1980s → 1990s trend)
- Cigarette ads were already banned from TV and radio since 1971, but by the late '80s and early '90s, there was increasing pressure to further restrict tobacco marketing, especially to youth.
- Synar Amendment (1992)
Required states to prohibit the sale of tobacco to individuals under 18.
States risked losing federal funding if noncompliant.
Late 1980s to early 1990s: many cities and states began passing clean indoor air laws restricting smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and public areas.
Examples: San Luis Obispo, CA (1990) banned smoking in all indoor public places.
States began exploring lawsuits against tobacco companies for Medicaid costs related to smoking-related illnesses.
CDC established the Office on Smoking and Health as a national anti-smoking effort.
American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation and other groups pushed for local ordinances.
Several states raised cigarette taxes as a deterrent and revenue tool.
EPA expanded its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), classifying substances based on carcinogenic risk.
Substances like benzene, formaldehyde, dioxins, and asbestos were formally assessed and increasingly restricted.
Major overhaul targeting hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), including 189 known or suspected carcinogens.
Mandated technology-based emissions standards for industries emitting these substances (Maximum Achievable Control Technology - MACT).
Examples: emissions from chemical plants, refineries, dry cleaners.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration tightened exposure limits for carcinogens (e.g., formaldehyde, cadmium).
Enforcement of hazard communication (HazCom) standards requiring MSDS labeling for toxic/carcinogenic workplace chemicals.
Expansion of EPCRA (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act), empowering communities to track local industrial emissions via the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
Helped spotlight local exposure to carcinogens.
CERCLA (Superfund) activity peaked; sites with carcinogenic contamination (e.g., PCBs, VOCs) were targeted for cleanup.
Public concern about cancer clusters near toxic waste sites gained visibility.
Required businesses to label products or areas with chemicals “known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.”
Influential beyond CA due to market pressure on manufacturers.
One of the best wins for longevity historically has been hygiene, safety design for products/places/processes, avoiding wars, and using fossil fuel to replace slavery. Medicine helped (particularly vaccines, antibiotics, and emergency surgery), but you can't offset society-level problems with it, especially since it's more expensive to scale.
So when I see such a graph, I always look for more general reasons first.
We'll see a similar drop once we tackle sugar, weight gain, and various legal and illegal addictive substances.
In fact, it's not legal for AirBnB to prevent it in my country.
So if I ever take the risk of getting an Airbnb instead of a hotel, then I know the next time I book I'll pay cash directly with the host because it will be that much cheaper.
It's like uber: the bait and switch to a service that becomes less good and more expensive is costing them because the competition survived the first wave.
Also, the regulations caught up with them.
Basically, they wanted to win by scummy means, like a lot of American startup that calls doing illegal or immoral stuff "growth hacks".
Still worked well, they are a leader, but not enough to kill the game, and now they have to fight.
Good.
They have surprisingly survived the past few years by making drivers a priority. Basically, all drivers recommend delicity in my area because they pay more, and they tell restaurants to sign up.
Don't know how they are going to compete now.
Add to that:
- They have a lot of patients and not enough sleep.
- They need to pay back a huge student loan.
- They hold terrible responsibilities and risk being sued.
- They don't have much time for themselves, let alone update their knowledge.
- Most patients are overreacting idiots, so it's a winning strategy to ignore what they tell you most of the time.
- They are not trained nor selected for empathy or open-mindedness.
Basically, you have to double-check everything they do, and endure their cynical rebuttal when you make suggestions, ask questions or try things they didn't request.
I had to face many such errors myself, two almost lethal.
When you can, shop for one that is both good and is open to discussion. But even then, there is a limit. At some point, your doctor WILL fail you, so you have to take responsibility, usually when you're weak and at a low point in your life.
And if you are wrong, people will tell you you should have listened to your doctor, but if the doctor is wrong, well, shit happens.
One of my practitioners is a friend of 15 years, I literally lived with him, he is considered top in his specialty. I'm surrounded by people working at the hospital.
He saved my life once.
Even that is not enough. I still have to double check stuff every time.