slumberlust

When Spotify picked up podcasts they could now offer way more information and targeting to the ad buyers. Podcasts they just know if you played their podcast can't compete.

Two things come to mind. There's a relatively cheap bumblebee rider with casters at target. Our boy has grown with this thing from the moment he could sit upright and push. Now that he's older he rips around the house on it and drifts.

Second is something to climb on. We have a product called the nugget with nevernudes (accident protection) and he's tumbled and built shops/forts out of it for years now.

Never match wits with a stringscillian!

'Entertain me better or I'll drive distracted' is a distorted view on your responsibility as the controller of a two ton missile.

I don't like ads either, but that doesn't excuse my responsibility to drive safely for the betterment of myself and my community.

Should we assume by anything you mean edge devices? You don't update your PC? Your phone?

AppleTV makes sense, but Amazon's garbage is just as bad.

Want to bet we can find holes in your solution too?

Me personally, no. I found the only way to increase my book consumption is to create accountability. Our book club is going on its 3rd year and I'm reading more than ever.

Your insults weaken your argument and detract from the overall conversation. Aim higher.

The don't tread on me angle is just as overplayed as the one you're complaining about.

I disagree that it's a misconception. Yes, the premise is that the true 'monster' was the creator, but the monster itself is intentionally grotesque and disfigured to teach us the beauty on the inside lesson.

Thanks, I also noticed they allowlisted the FF about page...which is a bit cheeky.

Good. Movie theaters have been anti-consumer for decades. Time for them to reap what they sowed.

I host mine locally to backup the cloud or in case Google just screws my account one day.

Would you support removing age restrictions elsewhere under the guise of 'just parent?' Drinking age? Gambling? Driving?

If the ISP was taking ad money they know were scams...yes they should be liable.

International law and extradition has already proven to be too slow and small scale to be effective.

Damn, in the last twenty years I've never lived at a place with more than one option for ISP (excluding satellite options).

Not all states have inspection, and those that do don't necessarily include an alignment check.

As always, they will keep it clean until they can crank that enshitification dial to 11.

Most towns have the repeater(s). They are cheap and easy to maintain.

They have multiple avenues for haggling beyond price. Leveraging loan terms or penalizing you for cash, insisting on addons like 'safer' blinking tail lights that they auto-install on every car, the creativity never ends.

Tell that to the dent in my door.

Inner city, especially in the oldest and most established, is an outlier experience. My friends on Melrose drive to their schools, and here in Southern NH it's driving or buses.

The main reason I wouldn't let our gradeschooler walk/ride .5 miles to school is a lack of consistent sidewalks and drivers who are constantly distracted and/or road raged.

It's possible to be moral without religion. Your assertion stands stronger with tribalism than religion.

I enjoy playing golf and also realize how wasteful it is. Id support repurposing the spaces near me for parks/zoning usage.

Do your best like countless generations before.

Perfection is not required.

No. I'm app fatigued and over it. Let's put some power back into he hands of consumers for once.

Go unifi and manage it remotely.

I'd argue sports ruined their own product with ad insertion at every available opportunity (and even creating new opportunities to shove ads at you). If gambling ads were banned, it'd just be something else crammed down our faces.

Ironically, Amazon's document writing culture stresses NOT using passive voice, but it seems acceptable to do so when you need to spin a PR.

Does the Dutch word for beaver also act as a euphemism for the body part in Dutch?