I agree with this. I think of the few websites where moderation truly is very light such as 4chan and how the discussion on those websites can get truly disturbing. Even the fairly innocuous boards dedicated to the discussion of hobbies are full of slurs and insults.
I greatly appreciate free speech in principle and don’t have any problem with websites like 4chan existing, but those spaces don’t feel conducive to the kind of thing the article talks about.
The free speech absolutists in these comments seem to disparage the heavy handed moderation tactics on this neighbor forum, but it sounds like that kind of management is working out extremely well for it.
It’s an ethos thing. Don’t make ridiculous claims if you want to convince people of your argument; by nature people will assume everything else is nonsense, too.
The AmEx platinum seems like a fancy coupon book full of credits I mostly wouldn’t use. Maybe if I cared about airport lounges more I would feel differently, but I agree with your sentiment. I have a hard time understanding the value prop of their charge cards.
I regularly go through their coupon book to see what I’m already using that they pay for. Clear (the airport fast check in thing) is fully reimbursed. They give me a $15/mo Uber credit. I wanted to buy some stuff from Walmart when they had a really good online sale, and Amex pays for the Walmart version of Amazon Prime. I don’t travel an awful lot, but get $200/yr in Southwest credits, so WiFi and drinks are basically always free for me.
I’ve signed up for a couple of things I wouldn’t have otherwise, but mostly I get reimbursed for things I was using anyway.
For the vast majority of Americans, they don't use Uber even once every month and $15 credit is money thrown away (Unless they order Uber Eats, which is not common either -- I found that most people I know rarely order food delivery). So the credit and Uber membership is really targeted to a certain group of their users.
And when you look at their Walmart+ and upcoming Dunkin credits... Well, it gets very confusing who the target card holders are. It seems to me one is very likely to lose money on the annual fee unless they really travel and dine out a lot.
Fine, but my point was that those are things I use that they pay for. They also have a Disney subscription discount and things like that. I don’t use those but lots of people do.
I mean, these are travel cards first and foremost.
AMEX Gold and others with similar bonuses like AMEX Delta Platinum also cater to local use (groceries and dining), but if you can't/don't make thorough use of the No Foreign Transaction Fee benefit you really should be looking at other cards AMEX or otherwise.
Walmart+ is absolute garbage. They have special pricing online and won't give that price in store. Same day pick up often becomes next day after you order.
As much hate Amazon gets, they are a much better business than Walmart.
The one time I used the Uber Apple Watch app it requested a car but no destination. I assumed they’d just ask me where I’m going but the driver was adamant that I had to provide one, which was impossible because the reason I was using the watch app is that I’d left my phone at home.
I also thought it was funny that they are listing features like apple pay and magnetic charging as if these features have anything to do with the case.
This. Coupled with the fact that all their promotional material looks like renders and there isn’t a single photo/video of someone actually using it, makes the whole thing feel sketchy.
Could you link something showing that "almost all" journalists claimed the laptop wasn't real? Some articles from notable publications making such claims, etc.
I've had a bug where unpausing a particular app requires doing so 2+ times before I can access the app. The bug has persisted on multiple devices for multiple years and it makes for a pretty clunky user experience. That's one example that comes to mind for me.
It happens so often for me, I just assumed it was a key feature of how Screen Time worked e.g. 1-click to unpause isn't really a deterrent, but what if unpausing took a random number of clicks to unpause - now that's a deterrent to not unpause.
It doesn't matter how many times you click it, there is a delay before it unpauses. If you click it once it will unpause after about 15-20 seconds. I'm not sure why it does this, it could be syncing with iCloud to also remove the restriction on your phone and iPad or it could be a feature that gives you a short pause to reflect on whether you really do want to continue wasting you life on hacker news.
Anyone get the bug where you can't get away from the Safari tab that's screen timed because anything you type into the address bar gets deleted by another popup?
Los Angeles is indeed building a lot of public transit. As is the nature of any of these projects, especially in California, it will be many years (decades) before much of it is complete. But it's happening nonetheless.
A lot is complete already like over 100 stations. Only got started about 30 years ago too so they are building at light speed compared to the rest of the country.
Just about all of Apple's alternates to Google services are fine in my experience. I recently switched from Proton Mail to Apple Mail and have been satisfied saving a few bucks a month there. I don't know how to evaluate Apple's claims to privacy though.
He has a notorious habit of overpromising and underdelivering. I thought that habit of his was well established even before he became so vocally political.
You have to wonder if working for four or five different companies while, allegedly, being on _all the drugs_ has an impact on his performance.
If Musk ran Apple we'd still be waiting on the iPhone XS, though he'd insist it'll be ready by "end of year", a phone that launched around the time Musk was crowing about these trucks.
It was, but it was the politics that swung the opinion pendulum from pathological "admire wins, ignore losses" to pathological "ignore wins, disparage losses."
I greatly appreciate free speech in principle and don’t have any problem with websites like 4chan existing, but those spaces don’t feel conducive to the kind of thing the article talks about.
The free speech absolutists in these comments seem to disparage the heavy handed moderation tactics on this neighbor forum, but it sounds like that kind of management is working out extremely well for it.