All ways, exactly.

The users and content on this site are far removed from reality.

Social media

I’d argue this is the opposite of what was asked.

In the early days, no one would post sources or attribute “stuff” to anyone. We’d all just share what we thought were cool pictures.

Now, everyone gets mad when you dont post the name of the artist and their socials.

Strong example!

I’m curious if we would call this time period socialism or capitalism being held in check.

The era of high taxes on high income was definitely beneficial to more Americans than today’s low tax structure.

No, but do you have sriracha?

Please cite, with examples from reality, a better system.

Understood.

Please cite, with examples from reality, better systems.

Life experience.

No. I don’t pay for a service that has ads. That’s what I just said. If they add ads, I cancel.

Regarding capitalism, in reality, it is the best system we’ve seen so far.

Yes, theoretically other systems could be better for the general public. But in reality, they never have been.

But they haven’t added unskippable unavoidable ads yet.

When/if they do, that’ll tell a story.

I’d expend your tldr just a bit to include.

• users are stupid
• software is designed to work for both Tom Tecnowizard and Paul Pebkac
• finally, ads ruin everything they touch

Minecraft movie: So far…

Piracy is not stealing. Piracy affects artists.

These two statements can and do coexist.

The fact that downvoting is seen as possible misbehavior is enough for me to be extremely against public votes.

It will also strengthen the hive mind, exponentially.

Severance and Presumed Innocent were both really good.

Ignorance is bliss in respect to this question.

Random streamer that is popular. That’s it. Ignore and move one.

I’ve used both for years. iPhone is simply the better device compared to any Android phone I’ve tried, including Pixel and other high end phones.

iOS is a better OS for me. I’m a software eng, and so I’m able to do all sorts of things to androids, and some things to iOS, but at the end of the day I want my phone to work and that’s it. I don’t tinker in my free time because I tinker all day at work.

As others have mentioned, the Apple ecosystem is pretty fantastic.

Finally, I’d rather buy hardware/software from a hardware/software company than an advertising company.

I work in the medical industry. Any software that controls any device or reports any data used in the OR is absolutely treated this way.