I used to hate them for being slow and annoying. Now they drive like us and I hate them for being dicks. This morning, one of them made an insane move that only the worst Audi drivers in my area do, a massive left over a solid yellow across no stop sign with me coming right at it before it even began acceleration into the intersection.

Almost downvoted instinctually as a reaction to the headline. Visceral reaction. I hate this beyond belief.

And we still pay the vig to AdWords or does all my money go to LinkedIn now?

Not a comment on the merit of the article, but a tangential thought: Fediverse has presented the same amount of doom to scroll as the algorithms. I open my phone to get a break from work, life, etc, and any app I think to open for social or news, presents the same anxiety of “I just can’t deal with that type of shit right now; where can I bury my head in the sand?”

I have agreed for the longest time. But a couple of friends in intelligence are really trying to convince me this is a distraction lately. I haven’t gotten a good answer to why status quo should be allowed but those guys don’t ever consider “how end users are” when we get into it.

Speaking of forgetting what’s perfectly normal… the days before uniting the citizens…

Obama capped money for his inauguration at $50,000 per person - still, more than 10 times what individuals could give to his campaign.