No no, I got it. It’s the untoppable part I don’t understand that’s all.

Like…poop? I get it. But obviously I’m the odd one out here if I’m getting downvoted, and that joke was actually uproariously hilarious 🤷‍♂️

An untoppable comment?

You’ve legally smoked on an airplane haven’t you?

I spent my school years hearing the story of how China would inevitably become the world’s leading superpower in the 2020s. Wild to see it playing out in real time.

Now that’s a title!

People aren’t poor because they’re stupid.

Plenty of poor people who understand basic logical reasoning and the scientific method.

If it’s going to happen to anyone, better it happen to America right now.

Good, that’s less the rest of the world has to deal with.

"Gee there sure is a lot of mental illness these days. "

Billionaires: “Hold my longevity slurry.”

Absolutely, and it’s about time.

No one has said this is how Elysium starts?

This is how Elysium starts.

Stock up 4%

Totally legit stock market we have here

Downvoted, who the fuck wants to hear anything that shit stain has to say

Oh god the male baby boomers will never recover from this.

More great news fot Tesla stock!

That behavior is not very fascinating.

Maybe in 1990 this was groundbreaking, but I think a bunch of algorithms that lead to efficient movement is no longer thought of as “life-like behavior”.

Edit: Just saw the 1994. Makes a lot more sense now. So this is more of a historical science thing?

Social media hug of death or wrong link?

If the state can’t protect its people from the damage that technology and capitalism can do, they have no right to prevent people from protecting themselves.

Fix climate change. Tax billionaires. Address the housing crisis. Then we can talk about taking away privacy in the name of upholding the law.

I wouldn’t call it a conspiracy theory any more than saying Facebook is free because you’re the product. To each their own though!

I guess what I’m getting at is if you buy a phone outright, you have no incentive to keep using it…other than of course wasting your money. But there’s no additional penalty keeping you from leaving the Pixel ecosystem, the financial damage is done.

On a contract, you have a financial penalty for the act of leaving early. So it disincentivizes leaving before 2 years or whatever the length of the contract.

So Google can say to carriers "Hey, we will subsidize our phones for you so you can give them away on contract. You get a captive customer, we get good odds of 2 years of valuable data.

I don’t know if I’m right about any of this, but it explains a lot of questions I have about why Pixels are far and away the best value you can get on contract with any provider, where I am anyway.

I don’t think so. Better to have captive customers on contracts if that is their goal, no?