The value proposition is that the people selling it are telling the buyers that trans and gay people will corrupt their children. Not that it might turn out their children are trans or gay, but that trans and gay people will cause them to be trans or gay. Amp this up with hoaxes like schools having cat litter boxes for children who identify as cats.
When I'm trying to focus on something I have Messenger.com installed as a desktop app, so I can see when my friends message me without seeing a slew of FB notifications. facebook.com/messages has the notifications, there's no way to turn them off. This move feels like FB is trying to force me to choose between their engagement bait and seeing messages from my friends.
I bought a used Nissan Versa from Hertz and regretted it immensely. Not only did the CVT transmission go on me (it took a while for my year's class action lawsuit, but they did offer me ... $1k on a new Nissan. No thanks), but Hertz is terrible at their maintenance and uses the cheapest parts possible.
The only good thing about Teslas from Hertz is that there aren't any third party parts to cheap out on, but I still wouldn't trust a Tesla that was maintained by Hertz.
It's unclear if the planet will be habitable for the remainder of my lifetime, let alone any potential child's. As everything slowly gets worse, bringing a child into this world, for the sole purpose of ensuring there's someone to take care of me when I get older, is one of the most selfish acts I could imagine. Sounds like a lot of the world has made the same calculation.
> According to the company, the biggest burdens on operators are hearing abusive language and being trapped in long conversations with customers who will not get off the line—such as when making persistent requests for apologies.
> Nakatani said, “AI is good at handling complaints and can do so for long hours, but what angry customers want is for a human to apologize to them.”
An aside: is this something people really call up call centers for, for an apology? If I'm calling it's because I need something, or something is wrong and I need it fixed. I don't need a random call center person to apologize on behalf of a corporation. I just need my thing resolved.
A while back they were privately demoing ChromeOS alongside android on phones to enable a better desktop experience. They're also enabling display port on the new Pixel. My guess is they are making ChromeOS more like Android to make that process easier.
They're being sold fear, and they're buying it.