The ones I’ve seen are trigger happy on labeling anyone who disagrees a bot.

It seems both sides are really into the idea that robots are discussing things with conspiracy theorists.

Interesting, thanks for noting that. I wouldn’t have guessed it was unique in the US. I woulda guessed the US was catching up.

This. And the reason the hearing aid stuff is even happening is due to rule changes that happened in (I think) the last 4 years. They loosened up definitions and requirements in light of the current tech landscape.

I read this in Trump’s debate voice.

“Vhut? I do!”

I need to get more dumb phones in my diet.

The Wikipedia page for Feature Phone looks to have been started in 2011.

The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and popularized Smart Phones to a point that Feature Phone grew in use enough to warrant a Wikipedia entry a few years later.

You better head over to Wikipedia to fix the misinformation issue they have had for over a decade now.

And here has only existed for like a year or two. What the hell happened in the last few months?

From: https://tumblr.com/mclalan/

This isn’t the way.

So it’s a most or nothing situation? They need to be maximally broadly appealing? That sounds like capitalism to me.

I don’t care if only a certain percentage of people are into these channels. That should be just fine. It is just fine. And I’m not here to guilt anyone because they don’t like watching history shows or whatever else.

The economic model failed the audience of the original versions of these channels. It’s not society as a whole that failed the producers of the channels.

Well, in addition to that, your joke wasn’t creative.

All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.

“Playable” nah. “Interactive” yes.

Nope. We are in for companies like Walmart pushing their own wallet, their own app. Sadly.

They have been gearing up for this for a few years now. They bought the online bank One Financial and have been overhauling and building it into a big FinTech play.

That’s more than I would have expected at this stage. Huh.

Dooo it!

And harassment and cheating in online games…

Lots of things suffer due to ban evasion. If bans worked, the internet would be a very different place.

they’ve played us for absolute fools

Qualcomm too TBH.