I’m not saying it’s a good system, but one that exists due to the nature of the funding. Those external pressures (especially when it gets political) just don’t allow for the same amount of mistakes.

Remember, SpaceX was one failed launch away from bankruptcy.

You are omitting the lede. Public appetite for failure on tax payer funds is near zero. That increases time, complexity, and cost for launches (with or without humans aboard).

You don’t need to justify a purchase! If you like the product, paying for it is ge best way to ensure it stays around.

You may be remembering through rose tinted glasses here. YTM has it’s issue but so did GPM…neither I would describe as good products.

Is this a third party cookie?

They appear to honk when a car is backing up within X feet towards them.

Car TOCs here already include consent for any passenger…insane.

My wifes genesis is the same. Beeps if you do something beeps if you don’t beep beep beep beep. All the telemetry bullshit and bad ui combined with cheap hardware and latency. It sucks …

Tell me more about loves knob 😍

If it’s my mother, post it notes stuck to the laptop…

Was the auto play auto focus video ad not enough of a motivator?

I also pay, and share to several family members to help justify the cost.

That just makes us shills though; consumerism is a zero sum game. /s

Private Equity firm bought them out a while ago and they fucked around. Now it’s the find out phase.

West Lafayette is still fun.

I saw these on my wife’s browser and was completely appalled. I am not receiving them for some reason, but I’m also running privacy badger and ublockO.

Are you assuming this simply because apple doesn’t state the reason they end a relationship? Access journalism isn’t new or unique to apple.

Ewweew hydrox

There’s a reason everyone and their brother want you to install an app these days.

I too am fed up with all the data rape. Fuck off car companies, greedy assholes.

It’s not just FUD either, this shit is actively happening NOW: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

Doesn’t Telegram have E2E encryption disabled by default?