Of course they know human communication is important.

It’s the thing you get in the way of for monetization opportunities.

If you’re waiting for a xenophobia-free society with no right-wing nationalist presence before you’re allowed to say something nice about a place, I’m afraid the only place we’re allowed to praise is the moon.

Movie version: Thousands of pages of perfectly redacted and edited papers come out, and one tiny detail leads to unraveling of the entire conspiracy, reveals the perpetrators, and brings down an entire corrupt empire.

Reality: Everything is so blatantly incompetently being doctored in broad daylight - like a child claiming he didn’t eat the cookies while in the process of eating the cookies, that everyone is actually too stunned by the absurdity to do anything.

Get yourself some universal health care, good roads, affordable small cars, and cheap, beautiful old houses in the countryside.

People say lots of things.

Embrace that feeling.

It’s working perfectly for the people who get to decide what the US healthcare system should be.

Did they?

Or do they just want a nice, on the record opportunity to tell everyone relying on those subsidies to go to hell?

It’s a joke, my friend.

The idea being that these amazing, efficient taxis yield more accidents, more cheaply than a human.

But at a FRACTION of the cost!

Agreed. And that’ll be the time I’m up in arms.

So they don’t waste my bandwidth on badly compressed, huge source video that I can’t see the difference on anyway?

Sounds like win/win to me.

This comes up a lot, and I don’t necessarily get it. I have all smart TVs, and I just never, ever, EVER let them connect to wifi even ONCE for any reason. It’s not like it NEEDS it for anything.

This.

The literal ONLY explanation I can think of is that the media kept parroting his bullshit about lowering prices while having absolutely ZERO ideas, and people who couldn’t be bothered to look deeper than the headlines bought it.

10 years ago me thought better of people than that.

2025 me can’t even pretend to be surprised.

So, par for the course for Bethesda then?

Oh, I’m sorry… I might be too quiet.

Why start making good decisions now?

Aqua just looks like that.

These are gonna be some well-adjusted, loved babies raised by only the most responsible and financially capable parents.