Personally, I just care about getting rid of those stupid: Person A liked "full text of previous message from Person B". I wish Apple would just not convert those reactions to SMS at all and send nothing instead.

I believe they do have that work around on Google Messages, but I don't use that since you can't if you have Google Voice which of course doesn't support RCS or any other work around.

Most likely developers will stop allowing purchases through Apple's store entirely. It seems there can now be "free" apps on the store which don't do very much until you activate a license which is paid for on some other website.

I run Kubuntu and that is such a huge lie. You're obviously extremely biased or invested.

Welcome to modern capitalism where the scales are always tipped one way or another. At least this particular handout is for people that tried to better themselves which either could have or did produce a large benefit to the rest of society.

They used to run TV ads teaching people how to say it. "It's Hyundai, like Sunday"

It was their software, not sales workforce.

I did the same thing, and my experience was similar except that their actual human workforce was kind of lackluster. For the initial buy, my Better agent dropped the ball getting a "survey" done and the manager had to step in to keep the sale from falling apart. My buyer's agent was pissed. For a refi, I had my own lawyer for title work but they did it anyway without asking me. I asked them to remove that charge and they gave me kind of a runaround trying to save face. Ultimately my lawyer did it for much less and they ate the cost of their own lawyer.

The website is amazing though it's true. You can basically pick your refi with daily up to date rates without talking to anyone.

Not.. really? Many of the founders actually wanted a direct election of the president (at least by white land owners), but some were scared of direct democracy and wanted congress to elect the president. The electoral college was a compromise so that some states could at least send electors chosen by their state congress. All states eventually made constitutional amendments that required direct democracy anyway, so the electoral college is a pointless vestige. It was never meant to prevent city folk from running things or give some states more sway than others in picking the president. Those are bugs.

It's a "government monopoly" on collecting what the government already decides (arbitrarily) that you owe. It's not like you really need to worry about a conflict of interest here. Any other interest (H&R block) can only collect more on top of what the government is already guaranteed to collect (assuming they catch any cheating/errors).

You're not understanding the concept here. It's literally cheaper on that day, yes, but the airline wants people who fly direct to MSP to subsidize tickets for those going to STL. You save them a little on the day of the flight and "cost" them a lot on the day you purchase the ticket. It's of course wrong to expect consumers to willingly subsidize their inefficient routes, but that's what's going on here and from that standpoint they do have an incentive to get mad about it.

Is your phone sideways in your pocket? The headphone cord sticks out a lot further I'd imagine...

Could be wrong, but my understanding is that Zuckerberg holds 51% of controlling shares. It's possible that no one can stop him. Also, the public stock seems to be mirroring Alphabet and Microsoft for the most part so it may be that no one cares yet.

Not sure you've thought that one through completely. If I post defamatory lies on my webpage, can I just assume anyone who reads the webpage was asking for it via a private message that my server sent to their browser upon request?

I guess there's something to be said for physical quality (first I've heard that argument), but I think the main driver is probably audiophiles. Vinyl sometimes has different (arguably better) mastering than the same album in CD format. Digital can have better dynamic range, but that doesn't matter if the mastering engineer compressed the hell out of the dynamic range first. Some people like the warmer, softer sound of vinyl even if it's considered technically inferior. There's also something to be said for a new avenue to spend money. Some people like buying fancy electronics as a hobby, and sometimes you can get better sound quality with more expensive turntables, cartridges, phono preamps etc. There's a huge market for that stuff with more variety and brands than TVs even (at lower volumes of course).

No, it's proven the format shouldn't be trusted for research since it's often completely wrong with no way of knowing which part is wrong. If you research yourself you can look at multiple sources very easily and end up verifying information as part of the normal process of gathering a lot of it.