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crowley said:

EsquireCats said:

While some social media platforms include chat features between individuals or to a group, this isn't what defines a social media platform. In much the same way that a conference call isn't social media. Calling such platforms social media requires twisting the term "social" to mean any other contact without any kind of logic or limitation.

Social media includes public forum and discovery components. To use an example which demonstrates the difference: a person on a social media platform can choose to make a post which can be seen by other unknown users or the general public. This post can also be shared and forwarded in a way that links back to the original poster. All of these are absent in group chat environments such as Apple Messages, Zoom calls and so on.

One can attempt to argue that certain features of chat resemble social media, but these are tenuous and rely on an ignorant audience.

I don't think the pertinent argument is the taxonomy of whether group chat is really social media, it's whether the laws that are being designed for social media should also apply to group chat.  And that depends on the purpose of the laws.  I could there being some cross-classification application for laws around cyber bullying, for example, or for moderation of hate groups using the platform.

iMessages is exactly an SMS platform and not social media. If India does not apply its social media rules to SMS platforms, it shouldn't apply it to iMessages either.

mikethemartian said:

It has to be embarrassing when you try to steal a car and can’t figure out how to drive it.

I can imagine this will be increasingly more and more the case where more US folks don't know how to drive manual due to the proliferation of EVs.

Rather than viewing human as "losses and costs", how about we view them as investments? That when days are not as sunny, cutting cost doesn't mean cutting some humans out of the picture. Capitalism has a yucky way to treating human beings like inanimate objects: take when you want, throw away when you want. With climate change, we too are learning that there is a cost in taking and throwing away as if the only "cost" to think about is the immediacy when there is a whole period of the future ahead that will have consequences. In fact, one should go so far as to argue that human beings LIKE animate or living things, and inanimate things (like minerals) are not just there to take willy nilly. We have to think long term not just grab madly and then throw away without thought.

Is capitalism day-by-day looking like a long and tired way of doing things that we should be abandoning? Yeah, I say so.

diz_geek said:

Absolutely inexcusable to not fix this. There are enough of these plugs functioning perfectly fine to consider these a “dead product” for a security flaw fix. 

Ah, it's a shame they aren't including Journal on the iPad. Journal is a feature that I turned out to like, but tapping away on the phone for anything more than a few sentences is not a good experience at all. It's not only slow, but frustratingly erroneous (lots of spelling mistakes) even when using swipe.

sflagel said:

The clip-on iPod shuffle is iconic. It was the first and last device that was a joy to go running with. We dis not have that again until the Apple Watch came out. 

That's true for me too!

I both liked and somewhat didn't like the iPod shuffle. I liked that it was lightweight and I did use it when I went running. What I didn't like was that the navigation was so limited because it had no screen. I ended up just randomly listening to whatever was on my iPod Shuffle. I now run with my Apple Watch and also listen to audio when I'm running. Before I run, I pick a podcast episode I want to listen to, play it, and then start running.