Trump is almost 1:1 a character straight from Transmetropolitan.

Then you have people like Elon that are straight from any cyberpunk media corporate heads.

The parallels between the themes of a cyberpunk dystopia and the present are drawing pretty close.

We just don’t get any of the cool shit like cybernetic implants.

I thought Teams was more of a curse than a competitor.

Kidding aside. It’d be nice if we stopped these massive corporations from hoovering up other businesses BEFORE antitrust complaints are needed. But that’ll never happen.

I purposely bought the base dash on my Focus ST. Screen is smaller than a phone like 4 inches at most, has no apps. It Bluetooth syncs my phone for music and calls. There’s no touchscreen, all interactions are dedicated knobs and buttons.

For GPS I just use my phone and audio directions, my smart watch has the upcoming direction as well. If I really don’t know where I’m going I have a dash mount for my phone if I need it. But that’s not often.

It’s great honestly and the dash doesn’t blind me driving at night.

I was also looking at a Mazda before I got this car and their dash is absolutely horrendous. It’s like they just took a Alibaba knock off iPad and welded it on top of the dash. It’s literally in your view of the road causing a small blind spot.

There’s nothing stopping them from harvesting data with or without Threads. They can just create their own hidden Lemmy, Mastadon servers and pull all the data that way. Sure, someone could catch on and block that server, but they could just spin more up wherever.

This is the main concern.

I create Threads. It gets 30 million users very quickly. Lemmy users only make up say, 1 million users.

I make changes to Threads that don’t follow the ActivityPub protocol to the T, this makes the Lemmy servers glitchy when interacting with Threads content until Lemmy can be patched, but I’ll just keep making these changes to Threads over and over.

User A likes Lemmy, but it’s really starting to glitch out all the time. They have a lot of friends they interact with on Threads and because Lemmy has so many issues they say fuck it, hop over to Threads so they can consistently keep up with their friends/community.

My oldest cat (13) is a long cat. When she was 6 months I adopted her she still had the kitten belly and retained it for it a good while. Because she’s so long her stomach bulge was in the middle of her body instead of near her hind legs which is hilarious. Because of that her nickname was always Bean/Beanie because she was shaped like a green bean.

Anyway. When Disenchantment came out I had a huge soft spot for it because of Princess Bean.