No, we miss abortions in this neighborhood, brother.

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.

We cock things up sometimes.

The community feels genuine, reasonable, and not reactionary. I don't know why but that's hard to find on the internet as a whole.

This is why I think the people modding cars to be evs are so much better.

The way that autism is used as an insult says otherwise.

My biggest issue with the whole thing is how cars don't have the same limitations. If both were given restrictions to speed and such I could see this as safety focused as opposed to shock at a new thing vs indifference with old thing.

I’m all for capitalism, but not the current near limitless capitalism

That's just capitalism. Capital is power and if you allow people to be more powerful than others, they will use that power to amass more power. There never was and never will be limitless capitalism because we live in a finite world but there will be limitless suffering for the sake of profit.

There is no problem, they create the problem to justify their lack of empathy.

I'm against it not because Trump was first but because it further incentivizes people to not make wages and rely on tips. Employers should pay a living wage and not subsidize employment via tips.

I wasn't just talking about blockage but also servers being taken down physically or via ISP. I don't think I'm nearly as well versed in Signal as you are to go into depth of how it circumvents blockage via protocols but I assume they don't decentralize their hosts.

It makes a difference in that you have to play perpetual whack-a-mole not only with VPN's but with hosting servers.