If it wasn’t for the AI nonsense, this could’ve actually been a great idea.

Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.

Reddit says “Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!”

Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol

If I wanted an AI summary, I’d put the article into my favourite LLM and ask for one.

I’m sure LLMs can take links sometimes.

And if Wikipedia wanted to include it directly into the site…make it a button, not an insertion.

That is more a failure of the person who made that decision than a failing of ChatBots, lol

Because people want to feel superior because they don’t know how to use a ChatBot can count the number of "r"s in the word “strawberry”, lol

Stealing from Reddit is just stealing from a thief in a way…

In North America, most major mainstream news companies are owned by right-wing or right-leaning corporations. In Canada, I think it’s literally all of them.

Of course, you’d then be paying monthly enough to cover a water heater’s entire replacement in one year! Haha

They’re in the business of providing (expensive) peace of mind. Not the business of providing good value for money.

Ontario, Canada. They’re elsewhere in Canada, but seem most prevalent here

Thank you for sharing. I don’t have direct personal experience with a rental water heater – I was thrilled to find out the place I bought was built before it became the norm, and none of the prior owners got duped into getting a subscription.

Subscriptions suck. The only exceptions are if you literally have too much money to care. But most people don’t have the money to throw around like that.

Where I live, there are water heater rentals. It’s essentially a hardware subscription.

They’re garbage.

For something that needs minimal maintenance and will last at least 10 years, you can rent for the price that you’d break even if you had a new one installed every 5 years.

People will pay thousands of dollars to have the privilege of throwing out the water heater and getting out of the contract. And then pay to buy a new one they actually own.

But some people like it because, yes, if there’s a problem, they come and fix it for you. Or give you a brand new water heater. That you’ve already paid for two or three times over!

how Microsoft couldn’t afford to keep creating e-waste

23 years later, they seem to be affording it quite well! Haha

Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.

This is what seals the deal for me as the news companies being in the wrong here.

After an episode of The IT Crowd was criticised as transphobic, Linehan became involved in anti-transgender activism. He argues that transgender activism endangers women, and has likened the use of puberty blockers to Nazi eugenics. Linehan says his views have lost him work and ended his marriage

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It doesn’t become useless, it just misses out on a bunch of useful features for the drives.

Still ridiculous, of course

They don’t specify though, and it should be at the content level, not the account level

its far to iphone(esk) in design

It’s far too iPhone-esque in design

“It’s” has the apostrophe because it’s “it” + "is

“too” has two o’s when there’s an excess of something. More stuff = more o’s!

“esque” is uh…just how it’s spelt

iPhone capitalization is just their branding.

I only commented to help with “esque”, but saw other things I could help with. Knowledge is power!

My decent Bluetooth headphones have the option to plug in a headphone cable to use them wired. I use it occasionally so I can reduce audio latency, which can be useful with gaming…and essential with rhythm games.

Because they display (or even host, potentially) content that’s “illegal” in Turkey.

What they should probably be doing is just hiding said content from users in Turkey…and encouraging users in Turkey to use VPNs, lol

Is there a lot of overlap between people who can’t afford a cellphone and are taking flights?

Yes, there will be consequences. Things will get better for those businesses!