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FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills
  • Not like coffee. Your average person simply can't consume coffee beyond the average at any meaningful rate. We both know that internet usage can go from close to nothing to 100TB of data depending on the user.

    Internet isn't like coffee, it's not that simple.

  • FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills
  • I completely disagree that it is a decent metaphor. Unlike coffee, internet data usage is entirely nebulous to mostly everyone outside of the tech sphere. The metaphor serves as a way of misrepresenting a widespread ignorance for a fundamental understanding.

    If we wanted a decent metaphor we'd have to compare data usage to something like health insurance. Well you see, you pay for your rate of coverage at these visits per year but also have to pay your deductible that might or might not be used off routine...

    In the end if we want to simplify internet expense it is this: ISPs charge way more than they need to and search for ways to charge more to maximize profits without improving service.

  • Everything is so expensive
  • Capitalism, like feudalism offers upward mobility by appeasing the established elite. Seriously, nobody is wealthy under capitalism by earning a wage, they're wealthy by owning the means of production. You either die working class or your betray the class you were born into to use others.

  • Visit conspiracy on Reddit and it's all about Biden
  • I think it is also due to societal pressures (in the US at least) because we are obsessed with never being wrong, never claiming fault, always trying to show off, and never show compassion because it is weakness. So we have to fall back on believing something instead of knowing, testing, and verifying something. Everything has to be a conspiracy "theory" because they hold no understanding that a theory must be tested and really they're obsessed with hypotheses they can't prove nor accept they lack evidence for.

  • Harris backs striking dockworkers, Trump blames labor stoppage on the Biden administration
  • All workers really.

    When the extremely wealthy hold the economy hostage it's the "invisible hand of the free market" and when labor holds the economy hostage they're selfish and greedy free loaders. Really sad how that happens.

  • BYD would still have the cheapest EV in the US, even with a 100% tariff
  • We miss out on so much from the rest of the world but we have so many pridefully ignorant people that will die on any hill that might improve our lives.

    I'd personally love to have more than 0 weeks of government required paid time off, sick days, the top reason for bankruptcy not be medical bills, and no more mass shootings but I will most likely be dead before any of that happens.

  • Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
  • Never ask a company to pick between the right thing and profit. It was all a matter of time till Google needed to stop growing and start producing profit for investors.

    To make it worse the Pixel 9 starts at $800 just like iPhone. So if you're buying Android you don't really save money over an iPhone like you used to.

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