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  • Nah.

    I mean, yes, in the TNG era it was Rick Berman's fault. But it goes all the way back to TOS and Gene Roddenberry himself. And also costume designer William Ware Theiss, for that matter.

    From https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory :

    Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry. According to the "Art of Star Trek" book, Theiss preferred to design costumes that only appeared to be in danger of slipping or coming off, through the use of strategically-placed sheer or skin tone fabric. He was further able to enhance the effect by the censorship rules of the time regarding what parts of the body could or could not be shown (the navel being the most well-known restriction). He found he could get surprising amounts of appeal from the carefully-arranged display of skin not generally considered erogenous.

  • Fines are just the cost of doing business.

    Wake me up when corporate charters are dissolved and executives are put in prison.

  • (That's why arrest data is required to be public, despite the damage it does to the arrestee's reputation, BTW.)

  • they have the lawful right to seize and inspect your phone

    Sure. They can look at the outside of the hardware all they like. But if they can't access the data on it, that's (Constitutionally-speaking) purely their problem, not ours.

  • My Ranger seats 3 in a pinch and is rated to tow 1600 pounds (2.3L I4, regular cab, manual, 4x4) so you can see how my perspective is a little different.

  • I don’t think aerodynamics are particularly relevant to towing?

    Aerodynamics are extremely relevant to towing. "Aging Wheels" on Youtube did a test and found that payload weight makes basically no difference at all, but a trailer with bad aerodynamics can cut an electric truck's range in half.

  • The Slate is almost the equal and opposite, it’s what r/fuckcars thinks of when they start a sentence with “Can’t you just make do with…” A 20 year old S10 kicks the Slate’s ass in every way because the Slate is designed mostly to play dress-up like a barbie doll. They’re taking pre-orders but they won’t show you where the tie down points in the bed are.

    Speaking as a mod of !fuckcars and the owner of a 30-year-old Ford Ranger, I want a Slate truck and I don't think my current truck would be able to kick its ass. (Well, aside from off-roading, since the Slate doesn't have a 4x4 version yet. And, uh, ease of refueling in the wilderness. Hmm.)

    Okay, so maybe it wouldn't be an upgrade in all ways, but IMO those tradeoffs are still worth it because the lack of telemetry and other enshittification means it's the first modern mass-market electric car (of any type, truck or otherwise) I'll be willing to own.

  • It's not a technology/research issue; it's an economics issue. Trucks simply need an absolutely huge battery pack to brute-force not only themselves but a boxy trailer through the air for hundreds of miles, and all but one of them don't actually have it (even at the very expensive prices they sell for).

  • You're being overly charitable. I think Samsung knows exactly what they're doing and has deliberate planned obsolescence down to a science. If anything, your anecdotes are the outliers because for most people, they fail just barely outside warranty, by design.

    Source: I owned a Samsung washer where the main bracket supporting the drum was very clearly also the sacrificial anode.

  • IIRC, according to Aging Wheels on YouTube, of all the electric trucks, only one (the Chevy Silvarado) actually manages to have decent range while towing.

    Think it might've been in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmKf8smvGsA

  • They enshittified long before the PS5 came out. I think it's been about two decades since the music CD rootkit scandal, for instance.

  • Yeah the electric pickup is such a no brainer for the US

    Disagree. The truck market itself is a no brainer, but electric trucks have design challenges that electric sedans don't. Namely, aerodynamics, towing, and aerodynamics while towing. It is much harder to make an electric truck capable of doing "truck stuff" with a reasonable range and price compared to making an electric car.

  • B-b-b-but "lEfTiStS ArE BaD FoR BuSiNeSs", they said!

  • There are only a few companies that make the actual panels (regardless of how the finished TV or monitor was branded), and two of the biggest (LG and Samsung) are the worst offenders in terms of enshittification. It would not take much at all for the availability of new non-enshittified TVs and computer monitors to drop to literally zero.

  • The difference is, that's due to legitimate fear of persecution or other harm, not having a petulant tantrum.

  • Treason.

  • COINTELPRO (1963, colorized)