I program professionally, and I copy paste all the time. The difference is when I copy paste, its 10-20 lines of code, not a line or two— and I’m not fishing for a solution to the problem. I already have the optimal solution in my head, and I am just searching for the solution I already know. It’s just faster than typing it by hand 🤷🏻

The enshittification cycle started when we legalized stock buybacks.

Townhouses are everywhere on the mid-east coast.

Spending less than you earn isn’t a realistic prospect for A LOT of people. In many areas the cost of living has increased so dramatically that even those pinching pennies, eating simple cheap meals like chicken and rice every night are feeling it. The inflation numbers being distributed by the government are at this point, a straight up fabrication, with no relation to how the economy is actually functioning. In terms of actual costs real people are paying, things have doubled or tripled in cost across the board since 2020 at the grocery store, not to mention how outrageous rent has become. Unless you are also doubling or tripling your income every few years, it’s easy to see where all that money is going.

I would argue this level of delay is a miscarriage of justice. Actions this malicious could easily put companies out of business full years before a trial would even start. Where is a fair distinction between “slow/thorough” and “delay until the problem goes away”. There’s a non-zero chance some of the perpetrators will literally die before ever facing justice. How is that fair to the plaintiff?

There is, how do you think Cambridge Analytica did it. They’ve literally already been sued over this, it’s been confirmed they are collecting and using this data against users.

Device fingerprinting. Even with unique identifiers turned off, if you have enough of these seemingly innocuous data points, you can track individual users across sites and apps, even without any other information. They can use this to profile you, and manipulate you.

There aren’t 2 new movies I care to see a month most months, honestly there’s barely 1. Having to keep constant track of 20+ subscription services to evaluate whether they’re actually worth the money (especially when prices constantly fluctuate) is exhausting. 90% of content that appeals to me is on streaming platforms first these days, and most of it is longer form than a movie.

I don’t want to have to subscribe to every facet of my life. If literally everything is a subscription, monthly costs build up fast. I just want to be able to pay for something normally.