Oh god, they had better not make them look like AirPods. I’ve been using OG Glaxy Buds for years, and have been considering an upgrade. But there’s no way I’m going to buy stupid stick-shaped garbage.

This theory is far too well thought out and coherent to be the actual plan. They will come up with a much sillier and stupider explanation.

That’s certainly what people were upset about for the most part. But these days multiple devices have been released that do just that, some expressly built for photography, and basically nobody cares. Snapchat made those weird glasses, and the Apple Vision Pro has multiple cameras and external sensors and nobody seems…

That was the perception, but IIRC it was largely overblown. I think there was like... one guy that was refusing to take them off when someone started flipping out at him.

Yeah, this whole thing is pretty lazily considered. And did Google Glass actually have bad reviews? Or just bad public opinion? I could be remembering wrong, but I thought that most people that tried it liked it, and the main issue was that it was a little ahead of its time in terms of having a camera mounted to…

Did you watch the video? The drill was used to make the hole, the other tool wasn’t a drill, it was an electric riveting tool.

If it came from the factory with that rivet, literally nobody would even notice. They even used a jig to make sure it was perfectly centered and stuff, the rivet is tiny, and it doesn’t really look out of place in any way.

How hard is it to get a headline right? It’s clear in the article that they are using a rivet, not a bolt. Why on Earth does the headline say bolt?

I somewhat wonder if the best thing would be for this to pass, then get challenged and taken to the Supreme Court. Setting a precedent that no, you can’t do this shit, would be a good thing. And I wouldn’t exactly feel bad about TikTok in particular being the company that has to take on the burden.

On one hand it seems silly, but on the other... Where was it parked? I can definitely see a reason to not want people leaving cars in places they don't need to be in order to sell them. But there should need to be some kind of proof it was left there for that purpose for a span of time that can't be explain by the…

Here’s two pages from my Chevy Volt manual:

I’m no fan of Tesla, but I HATE misinformation and FUD. We don’t know why this truck stopped working, and that’s a concerning thing. But chances are it wasn’t the car wash.

What if this is mere correlation? Maybe having sex reduced the changes of Alzheimer’s, and people at that age that are getting it on are more likely to take Viagra?

Which, IIRC, was also the first thing that onlookers saw in the book that indicated the plan was actually working.

The argument of “well consumers shouldn’t be lazy” is a horrible, terrible, stupid argument. All you’re doing is saying “it’s okay for a corporation to exploit basic psychology for profit at the expense of their customers” which is just ridiculous. That’s exactly the sort of shit we need them to stop, that’s exactly…

They play this game of placing themselves in really niche categories so they get to be #1 in some overly specific category which heavily boosts them. 

Typically the one we get in the buy box is the best deal when shipping is accounted for, with Prime shipping getting an edge over regular free shipping. I don’t know if perhaps it works differently if you aren’t a Prime member.

Yeah, I get how it’s “strategy” to a degree, but it’s a bit too all over the place at this point.

Idk about that. Scam implies that there was false advertising, or they took people’s money and ran, etc. The advertising shows a lot of the pals with guns, which actually unlock pretty early. The marketing doesn’t say “Pokémon eith guns”, that’s news outlets doing that.

This is a fair point, your pals get guns way earlier than you do.