I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.
. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn't afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven't.)
I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I'm not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn't awful for many other folks.
Another truck with a flat hood that hides anyone shorter than 5 feet tall? Thanks, I hate it. No wonder we have so many road deaths in America when manufactures are allowed to make vehicles with such poor visibility.
Those are some tough and somewhat disparate goals for a single bike. Small/foldable is doable. Trails and sand are doable. Something that does both well enough to be worthwhile is a tall order. Maybe something like the Lectric XP 3.0 could manage it, but I don't know.
I invested heavily in the Amazon Music ecosystem, I bought hundreds of albums on there, and the platform is now very nearly unusuable. I cannot even listen to the songs that I paid for without also having to listen to ads. And the Android app now hides the downloads in some hidden folder so I can't even download them and listen to them on another player. It makes me furious.
I've actually gone back to CDs, if you can believe it. It's kind of nice sometimes, especially for full album plays, but I do miss a nice big playlist of my favorite songs from all artists.
I really wish there was a better alternative to push my friends to. I do use Bandcamp, so at least I know more of my $$$ are going to the artists and I can take the music with me, but I'm not sure about the platform long-term.
I definitely found Linux Mint the easiest version to switch to, coming from Windows. All the menus and icons were basically where I expected to find them. I couldn't have cared less about Wayland support, I just wanted to do basic tasks and for my printer to work, and Mint did that out of the box.
I'd at least like a company I know I can contact. My first ebike was from Ariel Rider, and the battery failed 15 months after I bought it. Which sucked, but at least I could get support to buy a replacement battery, even though they didn't sell that model anymore. The company also had support that helped me spec the right brake pads, etc. for maintenance. It's still running fine now, chewing through tires, but if I had to buy one again, I'd probably pick a bike I could get serviced in a bike shop instead of fussing around with email support and trying to do the grease monkey work myself.
Meanwhile, TVA (powering huge portions of the Eastern U.S.) is doubling down on fossil fuels, and isn't even putting any meaningful effort into solar. 🤦♂️
What's this, a shockingly well-informed conversation about housing policy, building patterns, transportation networks, and carbon emissions? I'm here for it!
Same, although I may not wait that long, I'm looking at a new PC build and I can't justify a Windows OS nowadays, particularly since Steam on LInux is working relatively well for the (admittedly modest) games I like to play.
I feel like Toyota really dropped the ball by giving up on that [Scion] product line rather than converting it into their electric line.
You're probably right. It's really surprised and unimpressed me me that Toyota has taken such an anti-electric stance. They should have been ahead of the curve, but instead, they've lobbied the governments of every country to not shift to EVs. Screw those guys.
I don't love this, TBH. I'd rather see more investment in cities in transit or sidewalks/bikelanes. The geometry problem of car-centric transportation and storage is unchanged by electric cars.
I found the LLM-generated image very off-putting. I would have rather seen some example vehicles like the ones described in the article.