Earthwormjim91

Have you ever met humans? That would be a recipe for “no I’m not calling about that, I want a human” just to get to a human and say you’re calling about exactly that.

Yeah. They haven’t raised prices for several years.

The iPhone 12 was $799 in 2020. The iPhone 17 was $799 in 2025. Inflation alone should have made the 17 $999 but they kept the price the same for 5 years.

Same for the pro lines. 12 pro was $999 in 2020. The 17 pro started at $1099 but they dropped the lowest 128GB storage tier. Same price as the 256GB model for the 12 pro. Inflation would put that at $1399 for the 17 pro.

Between inflation and AI making memory cost your firstborn, they’re going to have to raise the prices.

It’s the exact same thing that cars have been doing forever.

It’s meant for the people who are constant upgraders.

I mean, if you just gloss over half of what I said sure.

You’re not disputing anything because that’s not what I said.

I said you have an extremely high likelihood of hitting “something or someone” behind it.

Which is absolutely true.

I’ve seen people completely miss a target from 5 feet out lol. And even then, the cameras are mostly plastic. A higher-powered rifle or handgun round would just go right through and keep going like nothing.

Well if you’re aiming up toward a camera on a pole, and miss, there’s a 100% chance it hits something else behind it. That being a person is low, but that’s not the only irresponsible thing to hit with a bullet.

Also, there are 30-40 deaths every year from inadvertent falling bullets from shooting up into the air.

Well, shotguns generally are extremely range limited, and birdshot is pretty mild after a couple dozen feet. You’re not gonna hurt someone accidentally, even if you completely miss the thing.

Handguns and rifles have an extremely high likelihood of hitting something or someone behind whatever you’re shooting at and travel great distance. Miss the camera, and you end up doming some poor bastard just walking down the street a mile away, or hitting some kid chilling in their room.

Yup. And here’s some more to back you up. There are several satellites whose sole purpose are tracking greenhouse gas emissions.

Japan has GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) and GOSAT2 en.wikipedia.org/…/Greenhouse_Gases_Observing_Sat…

NASA has Tanager-1 nasa.gov/…/nasa-designed-greenhouse-gas-detection…

And two CO2 mappers along with a dedicated methane mapper.

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5332/

The ESA has Sentinel-5P esa.int/…/Satellites_providing_clear_picture_of_g…

There’s also MethaneSat that tracks methane emissions. www.methanesat.org/satellite

And GHGSat which tracks industrial emissions. www.ghgsat.com/en/technology/constellation/

There’s a difference between “has connected features” and “REQUIRES connected features” though. Again, you’re making a false equivalency.

Yes, pretty much every new vehicle has some sort of connectivity, and almost all have some sort of paid subscription to use those connected features in the app.

That’s entirely different than requiring you to have a subscription and use the app. Most new cars do NOT do that. They still have all the basic functionality without using the connected features, and the features are literally extra features so you can do things outside of the range of the fob, or add some extra things that the fob can’t do.

Buy any of the other vehicles out there that don’t pull that bullshit?

Lol it wasn’t a choice between that car and walking. That’s a massive false equivalency.

That would be an absolute nightmare to administer lol. Though I guess that tracks.

1, 01, 001, 0001, and 00001 would all be different users

Unless by “digit” they mean any alphanumeric.

You’ve got a lot of options if you go to a 5 characters with letters.

Which they’d kind of have to with 700k users if it’s 5 characters.

If it’s case insensitive, you’ve got 60,000,000+ combinations, and if case sensitive then 916,000,000+ combinations.

We already do with tidal generators.

And theres ways to follow currents for extra help, but you’re limited to that and where the current moves.

Anything else and you’d have to violate the laws of physics.

It’s like putting a wind turbine on an electric car. The increased drag would cost more electricity than the turbine could produce.

It’s kind of funny to see all these headlines not long after everyone was going on about Apple not doing enough with AI and going to slow with their rollout.

They have just done it a lot smarter than the others. Not rushing out to throw piles of money at something. Same thing they did during the pandemic, when other companies were massively overhiring trying to ride the wave. Apple didn’t and subsequently hasn’t needed to hold massive layoffs.

Focused on private groups of friends and family

So, a group chat.

the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing

So it literally is just a fancy group chat. Or I guess a singular feed of multiple group chats…